Smelly cat or dog
By Dr Andrew | February 3, 2010
From: Dr Andrew Jones
Author: Veterinary Secrets Revealed
Website: http://www.theonlinevet.com
Re: Smelly cat or dog?
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Do you remember the episode in Friends where Phoebe sand ‘Smelly Cat’?
It was not Academy Award winning stuff, but very funny.
‘Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat, What are they feeding you?’
Believe it or not, the majority of dogs or cats with that unpleasant odor can be helped with nutrition – and certain select remedies.
Here are some of the common causes of odoriferous dogs and cats:
Atopy or inhalant allergy.
Food Allergy.
Bacterial Skin Infection (Pyoderma).
Yeast Skin Infection.
Seborrhea.
Ear Infection (Otitis Externa).
Halitosis (Bad breath from Dental Disease).
Anal Gland disorders.
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So what can you do for these conditions?
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Well there are MANY Alternate Options, and they are covered in my current video on Skin Diseases of Dogs and Cats. You can see the video here:
One of the VERY overlooked remedies is Shampoo Therapy.
MOST people do it WRONG.
Here’s what you need to know.
1. Select the RIGHT shampoo
Chlorhexidine: Antibacterial and antifungal. Best for pyoderma.
Benzoyl Peroxide. A de-greasing shampoo, that also removes crusts from the skin. Better for more severe skin infections, and Demodex.
Sulfur/Salicylic Acid. Anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antifungal. It is MOST effective for those dogs with VERy greasy skin disease called Seborrhea, and those with YEAST skin disease.
Oatmeal Shampoo. It hydrates the top layer of the skin and is MOST effective for Allergic Skin disease- naturally make the skin less inflamed.
2. Lather your pet completely and leave it on for a FULL 10 minutes – use a timer. Massage your pet for 10 minutes.
3. Rinse the Shampoo of WELL for at least 5 minutes.
4. Shampoo Frequency. This varies, in sever disorders it may be every 2nd to 3rd day. In other conditions, it can be once a week.
For those of you with time on your hands. you can watch the rendition of Phoebe’s Smelly Cat here 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETQfuzNGT58
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P.S. If you are wanting some alternate remedies that work to finally resolve your pet’s skin problem, watch this video:
Heal Your Pet At Home!
Best Wishes,
Dr Andrew Jones, DVM
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From: Dr Andrew Jones
Author: Veterinary Secrets Revealed
Website: http://www.thedogsupplement.com
Re: 7 Signs your pet needs a supplement
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A cheery Good Morning to you and your pets this Tuesday.
Does your pet need a supplement?
Well, good question…
When I first started in practice, I was often asked this and I would say:
“So long as you are feeding a ‘Good Quality’ Dry Veterinary Approved Food, then NO.”
But imagine how things can change… I was clearly NOT giving the best advice.
For instance that supposed ‘healthy’ dry food was causing many a dog to become overweight on too much carbohydrate, and turning too many cats into diabetics.
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So Here are my TOP 7 SIGNS that your pet should be on a Supplement:
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1. Limping, lameness, stiff movements, especially after rising from getting up. The most common cause of these signs is from Arthritis, seen in middle age and older pets. Supplementing with Glucosamine, Chondroitin, MSM and Essential Fatty Acids can reduce pain and inflammation.
2. Chronic itching and scratching. When your pet has these signs, they likely have an Allergy. Supplementing with Essential Fatty Acids, and Key Antioxidants can decrease the inflammatory response in the skin – meaning LESS itching and scratching.
3. Recurrent bouts of Diarrhea or Vomiting- in this case your pet may be having difficulty digesting certain ingredients, or suffering from some type of disease in which the intestinal tract gets easily inflamed. Either way beneficial bacteria called Probiotics are often helpful, decreasing the severity and frequency of GI upset.
4. Chronic and ongoing Ear Infections. The most common underlying cause of ear infections is Allergies. A supplement that decreases the allergic signs can lessen the chance of ear infections – Essential Fatty Acids, Antioxidants and Probiotics can help in this case.
5. Withdrawn and Sleeping longer- this can be seen in older pets which may have joint pain and discomfort of arthritis. Old age does NOT mean inactivity and less interaction. An effective Arthritis supplement can make your pet feel better, and be LESS withdrawn.
6. Constant Paw chewing, excessive hair loss, and ‘Foul’ Odor. The smelling pet is a BIG sign that your pet has an underlying health disorder, and can benefit from a Supplement. This could be a food allergy, inhalant allergy, and secondary skin infections with yeast or bacteria. Supplementing with Essential Fatty Acids, Probiotics, and Antioxidants can decrease the smell.
7. TOO many trips to your Vet. If you have a pet that seems to repeatedly be getting ill, then you should look at what you are feeding them, and do what you can to PREVENT diseases from happening in the first place. Supplementing with nutrients that may improve your pets immune response to disease, such as Colustum, Maiitake and selected Vitamins and Minerals.
Here is a supplement which can help these TOP 7 signs:
http://www.thedogsupplement.com
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Best Wishes,
Dr Andrew Jones, DVM
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From: Dr Andrew Jones
Author: Veterinary Secrets Revealed
Website: www.theonlinevet.com
Re: Administering Medication
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Does this sound familiar?
You have a swimming dog – such as a Lab… he swims A LOT.
But all the swimming means some water gets into his ears.
He develops a full blown ear infection.
Shaking his head, scratching at his ear and yelping if touched – in short… one very unhappy dog.
So WHAT can you do?
Well there are the Conventional Options – and in many instances these work well.
But what about the recurring Ear Infections?
Do you really want to keep going back to your Veterinarian?
I suggest that you get to the underlying cause – and look at ALL of your options.
I have just released my NEWEST Video on SOLVING Ear Infections – especially the CHRONIC ones.
It’s here:
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HOW to give the Medication in the Ears
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ADMINISTERING MEDICATION
It is important to get the medication into the horizontal part of the ear canal. Unlike our ear canal, the dog’s external ear canal is “L” shaped. The vertical canal connects with the outside of the ear and is the upper part of the “L”. The horizontal canal lies deeper in the canal and terminates at the eardrum. Our goal is to administer the medication into the lower part of the “L” – the horizontal ear canal.
The ear canal may be medicated by following these steps:
1. Pull the earflap straight up and hold it with one hand.
2. Place a small amount of medication into the vertical part of the ear canal while continuing to keep the earflap elevated.
3. Put one finger in front of and at the base of the earflap, and put your thumb behind and at the base.
4. Massage the ear canal between your finger and thumb. A squishing sound tells you that the medication has gone into the ear canal.
5. Clean the outer part of the ear canal and the inside of the earflap with a cotton ball soaked in some of the medication.
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Best Wishes,
Dr Andrew Jones, DVM
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From: Dr Andrew Jones
Author: Veterinary Secrets Revealed
Website: www.petfirstaidsecrets.com
Re: How to Speed Healing after Surgery
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I received an urgent request from a reader who is having a dog go into surgery. I was asked if there was anything that could be used to speed healing after surgery?
My answer… many things.
ALL of my key alternative healing options are here:
http://www.petfirstaidsecrets.com
Healing after injuries or surgery can take a LONG time. There can be bruising, bleeding, broken bones and damaged organs. Ligaments, Tendons, Connective tissue, and muscle all has to regenerate. These are often damaged as the surgeon makes an incision into the area.
A key component is rest.
Critical is adequate pain control.
The Natural Remedies that I advise work with your dog and cat’s body to help in healing. They provide pain control, aid in tissue healing, and do ALL of this without Conventional Medication Side Effects.
Here are the ones I advise:
Arnica: A homeopathic with strong anti-inflammatory and tissue healing properties. It treats shock, controls bleeding, and post-op injury.
Magnesium phosphoricum: It is known as the ‘homeopathic aspirin’ due to its unique pain killing and curative properties and is also an effective muscle relaxant, preventing and treating spasms and cramps and promoting relaxation.
Symphytum officinale: Also called Comfrey, contains allantoin – a chemical which encourages bone, cartilage and muscle cells to grow. This explains why Comfrey is called ‘knitbone’ by traditional healers, helping to heal wounds and injuries of all kinds.
Matricaria recutita : Is known for its soothing, anti-inflammatory and pain relieving properties.
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P.S. Something that I didn’t add is that a BIG DOSE of TLC goes a long way to healing your pet after surgery. See if you can have time off after the surgery so you can do whatever it takes to make your pet more comfortable. We often overlook the mental aspect of healing, BUT it is HUGE. A study done on dogs isolated in clinics (because of infectious disease) found that by simply making a point of having clinic staff spend MORE time with those dogs, they healed 30% faster.
P.P.S. To get in the KNOW about ALL you can do if a trauma occurs, go to:
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Best Wishes,
Dr Andrew Jones, DVM
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From: Dr Andrew Jones
Author: Veterinary Secrets Revealed
Website: http://www.theonlinevet.com
Re: Vaccines may not be necessary
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One of the MORE common questions I receive are about Vaccines.
Are they safe?
What to give?
The Regimen that I advise…
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Seems fair?
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Vaccines may not be necessary
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I recently re-read an article from one of the world’s foremost respected veterinary immunologists.
Schultz: Vaccines may not be necessary
Once a year, Ronald Schultz checks the antibody levels in his dogs’ blood. Why? He says for proof that most annual vaccines are unnecessary.
Schultz, professor and chair of pathobiological sciences at School of Veterinary Medicine, has been studying the effectiveness of canine vaccines since the 1970s; he’s learned that immunity can last as long as a dog’s lifetime, which suggests that our “best friends” are being over-vaccinated.
Based on his findings, a community of canine vaccine experts has developed new veterinary recommendations that could eliminate a dog’s need for annual shots.
Every year, when we take our dogs to the veterinarian’s office, they could receive up to 16 different vaccines, many of which are combined into a single shot. Four of these products protect against life-threatening diseases, including rabies, canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV-2), canine distemper virus (CDV) and canine adenovirus type 2 (CAV-2); the rest protect against milder diseases to which only some dogs are exposed, including Lyme disease.
But, as many veterinarians are realizing, over-vaccination can actually jeopardize a dog’s health and even life. Side effects can cause skin problems, allergic reactions and autoimmune disease. Though the case in cats, not dogs, tumors have been reported at the site of vaccine injections.
“These adverse reactions have caused many veterinarians to rethink the issue of vaccination,” says Schultz. “The idea that unnecessary vaccines can cause serious side effects is in direct conflict with sound medical practices.”
For 30 years, Schultz has been examining the need to vaccinate animals so often and for so many diseases. “In the 1970s, I started thinking about our immune response to pathogens and how similar it is in other animals,” says Schultz. “That’s when I started to question veterinary vaccination practices.”
Just like ours, a canine’s immune system fires up when a pathogen, like a virus, enters the body. The pathogen releases a protein called an antigen, which calls into action the immune system’s special disease-fighting cells. Called B and T lymphocytes, these cells not only destroy the virus, but they remember what it looked like so they can fend it off in the future.
It’s this immunological memory that enables vaccines, which purposely contain live, weakened or dead pathogens, to protect against future disease.
But, as Schultz points out, vaccines can keep people immune for a lifetime: we’re usually inoculated for measles, mumps and rubella as children but never as adults. So, can dogs be vaccinated as pups and then never again?
While evidence from Schultz’s studies on both his own dogs and many other dogs from controlled studies suggests the answer is yes, Schultz recommends a more conservative plan based on duration of immunity and individual risk.
Schultz says that core vaccines, or the ones that protect against life-threatening disease, are essential for all dogs, yet he does not recommend dogs receive these shots yearly. “With the exception of rabies, the vaccines for CDV, CPV-2 and CAV trigger an immunological memory of at least seven years,” he explains. (Studies testing the duration of immunity for rabies shots show it lasts about three years.)
For these reasons, Schultz suggests that dogs receive rabies shots every three years (as is required by law in most states) and the other core vaccines no more frequently than every three years.
Some non-core vaccines, on the other hand, have a much shorter duration of immunity, lasting around one year. But, as Schultz points out, not every dog should get these types of vaccines, because not every dog is at risk for exposure.
Today, many vaccinated dogs receive a shot for Lyme disease. However, Schultz says that the ticks carrying the Lyme disease pathogen can be found in only a few regions of the United States. More importantly, Schultz adds, “The vaccine can cause adverse effects such as mild arthritis, allergy or other immune diseases. Like all vaccines, it should only be used when the animal is at significant risk.” He notes that the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine rarely administers the Lyme disease vaccine.
Another common vaccine that Schultz says is unnecessary protects against “kennel cough,” an often mild and transient disease contracted during boarding or dog shows. “Most pet dogs that do not live in breeding kennels, are not boarded, do not go to dog shows and have only occasional contact with dogs outside their immediate family,” Schultz recommends, “rarely need to be vaccinated or re-vaccinated for kennel cough.”
Schultz says that it’s important for veterinarians to recognize an individual dog’s risk for developing a particular disease when considering the benefits of a vaccine. “Vaccines have many exceptional benefits, but, like any drug, they also have the potential to cause significant harm.” Giving a vaccine that’s not needed, he explains, creates an unnecessary risk to the animal.
Recommending that dogs receive fewer vaccines, Schultz admits, may spark controversy, especially when veterinarians rely on annual vaccines to bring in clients, along with income.
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P.S. Get my advised Vaccine regimen, Your Step by Step instruction to At Home Pet Health Care, and my NEWEST Video on Treating Ear Infections by going here:
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Best Wishes,
Dr Andrew Jones, DVM
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