rushy
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Post by rushy on Aug 4, 2013 20:32:26 GMT
Thanks Mark, I retweet a lot of your twitter posts, I'm AlfistiGT on there.
Little Warley is about 15mins away, so Helen will call then tomorrow. Cheers for the help!
Again, sorry to hear about Sean, I was stroking Jeddie today, noticing how grey & tired she looks and she was diagnosed with heart murmur in May, dreading the time comes with her. Blooming pooches, you save them, feed them, walk them & spoil them and they break ya heart.
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Post by pat on Aug 4, 2013 20:51:11 GMT
hi Stewart i use them with our dogs they will do right by yours pat
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Post by rushy on Aug 5, 2013 22:33:26 GMT
Just a quick update.. I called the Greyhound clinic but before they can see Ozzie either as a referral visit or on their books full time they need Hill View to email over his history which makes sense, but to be honest apart from his annual jabs and stitches when he was attacked he hasn't got any history .. then they can give me an appointment. Unfortunately they are only open til 2pm and I've just had a week off last week and Helen can't take any time off yet. So, with a foreboding heart I took him to Wylies tonight. Not a fan of them for past reasons with cats.
Anyway, their vet said it looks very likely to have been something in his pad, splinter etc. She made the hole a tiny but bigger on purpose but couldn't see anything. Hill View had never heard of corns and diagnosed Arthritis whereas Wylies said no arthritis at all! A weeks worth of anti inflammatories and antibiotics and if he's no better, another trip. As expected not the cheapest but for first time in several trips to Wylies I felt ok with their diagnosis. They did give him a long 30 minute look over, looked at his teeth, felt all his joints etc. Hill View just left us with no confidence on this visit on the other hand.
Thanks again all, Stu
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Post by May on Aug 12, 2013 21:18:54 GMT
We have changed Ben from Hill Park vets to the Greyhound Vets in Warley Hall Lane. They are so good there and so caring with the greyhounds. Ben has had corn treatment there and recently had two teeth removed due to an infection. For several weeks he hasn't been limping at all with the corn and then over the last few days just slightly sometimes on hard ground. I did wonder if it had gone as his pad doesn't feel as hard as it did, in fact when I looked at his pad it didn't look any different to the other pads. It sounds as though the cider vinegar that Yvonne uses works wonders so I am going to try that now. I agree with David Bailey about Daniel Doherty and his Magic Cure. Why doesn't he make it available to other vets?
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Post by yvonned on Aug 18, 2013 20:59:37 GMT
Have noticed that Argos have a small electric manicure set similar to the one I use on Cass. May did the vets core the corn out or just pare it down flat? Cass has definately got another one on the front pad which I'm filing down. You may find that using cider vinegar hardens the corn but it will slowly pull away from the sides of the pad. Have you thought of trying Davd Baileys Dutch? friends remedy of salt and vodka?
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Post by gail on Aug 21, 2013 7:55:04 GMT
Corns are a total nghtmare. we had Bens treated by Daniel but are battling to stop it returning. I can understand what has been posted regarding his 'cure' being made available, but a lot of his treatment relies on the confidence and skill to lift a large struggling dog, immobilise it with no drugs and cut into the pad with a scalpel before applying the 'special' poultice . I know a lot of vets who would not even attempt this, and would think that a lot of testing would have to be done before a product became available for general use. We just hope that we can keep Ben corn free a bit longer.
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Post by yvonned on Aug 25, 2013 12:04:58 GMT
Gail I hope Bens corn isn't coming back, it's so nice not to have to worry about the bl***y things. If it does come back I think Daniel will treat it for you, I was told about another grey whose corn returned and was told the owner has to take him/her back every couple of months. Perhaps there are a couple of causes for corns ie. foreign bodies and virus. Cass has definately got another one on her front paw which I'm working on and possibly a second on the pad next to it. I left the one on her back pad for a couple of days and although it seems very hard and has shrunk I now can't wiggle it about or lift it. Wish I 'd got it out when I could have done. Wish Alphavets at Ockendon was still open they used to "cone" them out, not under sedation, and although it didn't get rid rid of them permanently Cass was a lot more comfortable for a longer time.
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Post by yvonned on Sept 18, 2013 20:24:45 GMT
The latest on Cassies 3 corns. 2 I could pull out but won't because of leaving a bit of the root in. I'm still treating them with cider vinegar and filing using a battery or electric manicure set, I think the 1 at the back(oldest) has shrunk. Today I've started giving Cass Thuja 3c homeopathic pills to cleanse her system of whatever is causing them, I read about using them on a couple of sites and I think May or Gail mentioned them on our forum. If anybody has used them I'd be interested to hear what you think. Any news on the other corn dogs or anything else you've tried or done. I read somewhere of a person trying a cold sore remedy but true to form can't remember where.
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Post by abi on Sept 27, 2013 21:42:31 GMT
The vet took Gucci's corn out under anaesthetic when he went in for his dental. For a while things seemed to improve but he is limping again on hard surfaces. The Therapaw boot has so far been the best option for us.
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Post by gail on Sept 28, 2013 6:49:00 GMT
We are back at Daniels, but NOT a corn this time, turns out is a puncture wound on other front paw. so we will carry on with the pad sanding twice a week to kee corns at bay as long as possible. Ben seems to quite like it now! His routine is more complicated than ours, seaweed extract for plaque, yumove tablets for joints,cod liver oil for dry skin, frontline, drontal, paw wax for dry pads, teeth brushing and now paw sanding!
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Post by yvonned on Oct 3, 2013 19:27:51 GMT
Ben watch it, you'll be having hi-lites next.
Spent a good couple of hours on a Facebook site called "greyhounds with corns", quite interesting posts and photos. Don't think I could do to Cass what some folk on there do to their dogs corns, but a couple of fresh ideas. I could easily get Cass's corns out using some of the methods, but am hoping I can kill the root so they don't return. What amazed me was some of them leave a gaping hole in the pad and don't even cover it!! Worth a visit if you have a corn dog.
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Post by yvonned on Oct 6, 2013 12:07:25 GMT
Yesterday I stopped giving Cass Thuja pills 2xtwice a day, but am continuing with putting one in her water. I can't say that I have noticed any difference in her corns using thuja but that may be because I can't find the correct dosage for a dog, so I erred on the side of caution for a childs dose. I can wiggle and lift all 3 corns in her pad and could pull them out, but I want them to fall out complete with root, becuse they do have a root. The one that fell out a couple of yrs ago was like triangular shape with a hooky bit on the bottom. I think it was on the FB site I went on, somebody said their dogs corns disappeared when their grey started being treated for thyroid problems. I wonder, so I shall be looking on web for herbal treatments for thyroid. So I'm continuing with cider vinegar, Dandelion sap, banana skin and using my electric/ battery manicure set.
Anybody else done anything about their dogs corns?
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Post by yvonned on Dec 13, 2013 13:46:13 GMT
Hate to admit it I've been beaten by a corn. Should have pulled them out when I could. One of the front ones was quite large and I didn't seem to be making an impression on it so on Tuesday I took her to the greyhound vet in Warley Hall Lane, who took out the large one from the front and small one from the back. Went back today for redressing, which needs to stay on for a further 3/4 days. Vet said for recurring corn dogs always walk them with a boot on which I have done. Apparently this stops them returning so quickly. Have to say not a 4* building or surroundings but 5* treatment by lovely vets that obviously know the breed. Thoroughly recommended and thanks folks for the recommendation. Cost £62.00 and only 5 mins drive from m25/A127 turnoff and about same distance from old Ockendon kennels.
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May
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Post by May on Feb 1, 2014 13:18:13 GMT
Our Ben still has his corn, I think now that he will never get rid of it. I have resigned myself to filing it down and putting a boot on when we go walking, unless on grass which is mostly flooded at the moment. We go the the Greyhound Vet every few weeks for them to pare it off. I think that even with humans, once you have a corn, you have it for ever. The vet told us that it is a case of keeping him comfortable. Maybe someone will come up with a magic cure one day.
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Post by yvonned on Feb 5, 2014 20:33:54 GMT
Sorry Ben's still got his corn, damn nuisance having to keep having to have them seen to. Cass needs to have one pared out at the moment but I'm waiting for some of those Pawz rubber boots to come so I can protect the bandage when it's been done. I've also ordered some more "animal paw covers" from "my vet meds", as they do stay on but don't have a hard wearing sole like the Therapaws. Cass is quite a forceful scraper when she goes to poo, so I need something that stays on, especially as other people take her off me some days and give her a longer walk. I haven't done anything to the 2 corns that I had pared out in December, at the moment they aren't giving any trouble, thank God. Keep thinking I'll try dandelion sap on it's own when they do appear.
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