I have a Great Dane that I can't let be near my horse because she immediately goes for the hooves - like she's found the source of all those treasures the farrier leaves for her! Any hints to cure the dog?? (no bacon grease on Holly's feet!)
Suzi and Holly
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From: rides2far@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:38 PM
To: jsalas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: [RC] old remedies
> In the back of the book are "recipes" for illnesses and injuries.
I've got a vet book from 1860's. It suggests to feed the horse ground up glass to kill bots! It also has a cure for cancer, and a recipe to gentle horses (involves grinding up the chestnut on the leg and mixing with rose oil to rub on your hands or something like that)
On the other hand, Linda Tellington Jones once published a book where she related some old Gypsy remedies. They said that if a horse had say...a big stick stabbed into him the best thing to do was leave it. In a matter of days it's coated with pus and slides out with no damage...whereas if you pulled it out splinters & stuff stayed behind and caused all sorts of problems. I thought, "Yeah right". Then a few years ago my ex-endurance horse that a neighbor owned stuck a HUGE 4" or so nail in the back of his frog. It was just sticking out about 1/2" when she came to get me. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. It had apparently been in there a while and when I just touched the end it slid right out, well lubricated with pus. That horse healed up almost immediately with absolutely no penecillan or anything. After that I thought, O.K. maybe... but doubt I could stand to leave anything like that on purpose.
One more thing about bacon grease. My grandmother always wanted me to paint my pony's feet with it. Dangerous licking for the dogs...but what's worse is fire ants LOVE it. Don't put it on them please!
Angie
Angie
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