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Post by T on Apr 5, 2010 19:46:38 GMT -5
no doubt there was a time before people used modern medicine with dogs and im sure dogs outdate worming tablets and other modern medicines....
anybody know exactly what people would use before worming tablets were invented? i know garlic helps but there must be more to it than just that
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Post by stag on Apr 6, 2010 4:39:02 GMT -5
chewing tobacco would be put down the dogs throat and mouth held shut to stop it from sicking it back up....this method would make the dog ill for a few days,some even died but for those that lived were free of worms.
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Post by czbrno on Apr 6, 2010 5:47:29 GMT -5
hhhmmm i have heard the tobacco theories before....i think i would have mine take their chances with the worms
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Post by stag on Apr 6, 2010 6:23:36 GMT -5
Well i can tell you that your pups would have died or been maimed if not treated for round worm.They will coil within the stomach atached with beak like attachments.They will absorb the food then pass a poisonous slime that would ballon the belly out. So i dont think the people of old had much choice realy.
Laxatives and purgatives would also be used in days gone by.
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Post by czbrno on Apr 6, 2010 7:04:34 GMT -5
Makes you wonder how the wild canids survive doesnt it
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Post by stag on Apr 6, 2010 7:07:29 GMT -5
Did read somewere about people using rabbit with the fur left on...dont know if this works myself.
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Post by stag on Apr 6, 2010 7:18:00 GMT -5
Makes you wonder how the wild canids survive doesnt it Good point....i was reading about what plants etc that would be used for purging the body...i just wonder be for mans involvement if the dogs would eat certain plant to purge there body of such parasites.
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