Dog Sickness Blog

Welcome to my Dog Sickness blog. This first post is to let you know where the idea came from and why I started the Dog Sickness blog in the first place.

Just a little over a year ago my wife and I adopted two dogs. A tragedy occurred in which the entire family that lived next door to us was killed, mom, dad, and two kids. Their dogs were left homeless; no one in the family could or would take them so we volunteered.

We already knew the dogs quite well. We used to doggie sit whenever the family was out of town, and we used to visit quite often. In fact we knew the dogs ever since they were puppies. We lived next door when they originally brought them home. The story was, they went to pick out a puppy but they took two kids. Consequently when they came home they had two puppies.

They got a male and a female, brother and sister from the same litter. You’d never know it to look at them though. The female looks just like a husky. She’s grey, tan, and white, and about 55 pounds. Her brother on the other hand is big. He’s about 115 pounds, pure black, has a huge head, and looks like a Newfoundland. They must have had different fathers.

Funny how things work out, we were actually talking about getting a dog at the time. In fact we were talking about getting two. We saw how well it worked out having two next door. The two of them always got along and they entertained each other constantly.

We couldn’t be happier, we love the dogs dearly. But shortly after we got them we ran into a problem. One of the dogs, Koda, the big strong male got sick. Right after we brought them home he got diarrhea very badly and became extremely lethargic. He just laid around all the time. He stayed that way for about a week. Being “new parents”, we were totally freaked out by the whole dog sickness thing. We thought he could be seriously sick so we took him to the vet.

Boy did we get a rude awakening.

The vet bill came to over $550.00. What a Shock! We hadn’t had a dog in about 15 years so we weren’t used to dealing with dog sickness. We, had no idea Veterinary medicine had gone so high tech (and High Dollar). They kept him over night, ran a battery of tests on him and didn’t find anything wrong. Finally, the Vet told us it was probably just the stress of moving into a new home.

$550.00 to tell us he was probably stressed out due to the move? We told her that when we took him in.

I decided there had to be a better way, and I started doing some research. Sure enough I found a number of alternative treatments you can do to heal your pet at home. My Dog Sickness blog is a documentation of the alternative methods and treatments that I found.

I hope you enjoy it.

Tim

Its Your Pet - Learn How to Heal Them At Home!

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