For helping dogs blow their coats, especially ones that aren't regularly bathed or groomed, washing at the beginning of the season and most of the way through is very important. My dogs have always been farm dogs and have great farm dog coats that self maintain for the most part. They also tend to be double coated, so the undercoat becomes an problem come shedding season. At beginning of the shedding season we bathe the dogs so their coats are freed up from any built up oils and dirt. This allows the hair to shed out well and not become matted. I usually bathe them once more at the end of the season to finish out the shedding, so I can one final good clean to remove the worst of the hair. During the time in between vacuuming regularly, especially places they lay or rub on, and brushing will help keep your house a little more fur free. For the actual bathing I prefer to do a shampoo first. I now use Isle of Dogs Silky Oatmeal Shampoo . It is a very concentrated formula, so I'm ...
Salad Dressing Getting salad dressing when you are on a low histamine, MCAS diet is rough. Common issues with salad dressings for me is lemon juice and milk. Vinegar I try to limit in my diet, but condiments is an area I don't worry about unless I am in a flare. Creamy Italian dressing is a nice substitute when you are a ranch lover. Is it perfect? No, but if you're on a heavily restricted like mine you take what you can get. A nicety of many condiments is they are often mayonnaise based or easily switched to it. I can't find a creamy Italian dressing premade, but with a quick google search I found this recipe to use on allrecipes. I avoided some things, but it gave me a good start. I used a small (~1 cup) food processer to combine the ingredients and stored them in an old mustard bottle. The recipe I was referencing used a whole cup of mayo. I just added all the ingredients then filled the rest of the way with mayo. Ingredients 1 cup mayonnaise ½ small onion 1 tablesp...
So this Saturday I sat down and did some research again into my horse's mysterious ankle funk. Finally this search has seemed to be fruitful. Before I always wound up chasing my tail trying to find a condition that fit well. The issue is it is a persistent scratches like funk that hardly responds to even the most aggressive treatments. To get to the point it seems he has Pastern Leucocytoclastic Vasculitis or PLV for those of us who don't speak science well. The big reason fo r trying to find a name to put to it is because we have had vets trying to diagnose and never getting it right most of his life (10+ yrs). This scientific article that really gave me the "AH HA!" moment. Equiderma also has a decent article on it. They have the most layman friendly article that summarizes all the information I found from other sites well. Back to the vet journal article, they described the non-pigmented skin issues, but what no one else mentioned is the pigmented skin issues. Pi...
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