Re: RC: scratches

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi Sylvia
My vet has something that DOES work EVERY time. I'm going to help him
market it because I've never seen anything else as good. I told him to
cal it Scratches Be Gone with a circle and slanted line through it. He
has the pharmacist mix it up. My suggestion, though, is that whatever
you uses, instead of wrapping the leg once you've put the medicine on,
you merely spray waterproof sun block on it (the kind you spray on your
kids when they are at the beach.) In my experience, the moisture that
accrues from wrapping actually promotes scratches. This way you dry it
out without exposing the area to the sunlight which actually
proliferates it.
Good luck!
Bette

Dbeverly4@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 9/7/00 6:29:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> jcmiller@jackpine.com writes:
> 
> <<  Buy otomax (medicine for dog ears)from your vet.  Scrub your horses'
> pasterns with an antibacterial soap.  Rinse and then dry.  Put a couple of
> drops of otomax on your finger and rub it into the scratches.  When my
> horse's scratches are bad, I do this twice a day for about 2 - 3 days.  On
> the 3rd to 4th day, the scratches are gone!  Be diligent and check on those
> pasterns everyday so you can stay on top of the scratches.  Good luck.  >>
> 
> I gotta say that Trailrite's Magic Ointment is really pretty amazing.  Harca
> had scratches after Tevis this year.  I treated them with my usual voo-doo,
> and they kept coming back.  They actually got pretty bad on his white sock
> before I ordered some of the ointment from Tammy.  Guess what?  The stuff
> works!!!  Easy too.  Just clean, apply the ointment, wrap and leave it alone
> for a couple of days.  Take the wrap off....no more scratches.  I'm sure it
> doesn't work 100% of the time (but what does?).
> 
> Sylvia
> 
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Bette Lamore
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