The Vet costs more than the Doctor..... ( Archived) (30)

No more pets for me because of vets

Pardon?

Only the best Drs. get to be Vets.

Our Drs. are Vet school droputs.

I have too many pets to afford Vets; so whenever I have an animal with a problem, I read everything I can find on it, online, at the University, and in the public library...

Not many books have more than a page on any disease or health problems.

By reading all the books available on animal health, I can know everything about the problem in an afternoon.

I do everything except surgery on my pets. I taped the top of my dog's foot back on, by washing it thoroughly with a garden hose, filling it with peroxide and when the water and peroxide dried, filling the wound (the whole top was flapping, with the bones showing on the foot, and the tendons showing in the flap), then I made butterfly bandages from duct tape, and wrapped it up.

The scar was smaller and finer, than if she had stitches!

I've been breeding dogs, cats, and fish for years; and only had to pay $450 for one hip surgery, about 20 years ago.

I buy my Ivermectine (heartworm medicine) for horses, and use it one my animals...

The dose is 1cc per 100 pounds; and it's the same dosage for parrots, chickens, cats, and dogs, etc.

That's 1/2 cc per 50 pounds, 1/4 cc per 25 pounds, etc, etc.

For my parrot, the breeder recommended dividing the Ivermectine dosage by 10, before mixing it with 1cc of glycerine (water works too), to be able to make the dosage small enough for safety on a bird.

I have too many dogs to be able to afford Vet trips once a month for Ivermectine, for all of them; when I can buy enough to last them all over a year for around $50, if I use the stuff they sell for horses...

Ooops! I forgot to add the part about filling the wound with penicillin, before taping it up.

"I do everything except surgery on my pets. I taped the top of my dog's foot back on, by washing it thoroughly with a garden hose, filling it with peroxide and when the water and peroxide dried, filling the wound (the whole top was flapping, with the bones showing on the foot, and the tendons showing in the flap), then I made butterfly bandages from duct tape, and wrapped it up.

The scar was smaller and finer, than if she had stitches!"


I buy penicillin from the vet supply store for $12 a bottle. I've used it to put my dog's foot back on, cure kittens from respiratory illnesses, heal dog bites, heal my friend's thumb that was falling off, heal my other friend's dog bite to his leg, and heal my own wounds...

By using it topically, it makes a politics and a scab; and it works better than antibiotics mixed with petroleum jelly.

Mixing antibiotics with petroleum jelly makes dirt stick to the wound. Using just the antibiotics by themselves (you can open capsules, crush pills, or apply liquid to the wound) works much better!

Stupid spellcheck!

Antibiotics applied topically, makes an excellent "POULTICE" and a scab.

Spellcheck changed POULTICE to politics.