How To Train A Dog

If you see a dog with bald spots, chances are great it has a case of mange. Microscopic parasitic mites have burrowed into her skin, causing her tremendous discomfort and itching. The dog makes matters worse with incessant scratching and biting and rolling around, often causing secondary infections.

What will you do if your dog ever has mange symptoms? Will you pay a vet a lot of money to risk your dogs health with a poison that is supposed to kill the mites, but could also harm the dog? Or will you do what more people are doing every day? They treat their dogs themselves with alternative solutions that they know is not going to harm them.

This leaves you the option to use the vet as a last resort, even though it worked in the opposite manner for many. They went to the vet initially, and then, out of desperation, they started searching for alternatives.

The alternative solution that is getting the most chatter these days is the borax & hydrogen peroxide mixture. Most stores sell 3 percent HP, but you can dilute it with water. Take a pint of HP and a quart of water and mix them into a bucket with three large tablespoons of borax. Take a few minutes or more to stir it up really good to dissolve as much borax as you can.

Note: Remember, it is borax you are using, and not boric acid. You will be soaking your dog as many times as you can with the solution, so don’t use it all on the first pour. If you want a clean dog, wash it an hour before this so you are doing this with a dry dog. Make this a weekly ritual.

Another alternative solution is to put mayonnaise all over your dog for as long as you can keep it, up to an hour. Rinse with water and towel the animal dry.

Another one that tries to turn your dog into a salad is to mix equal parts water and raw organic apple cider vinegar into a spray bottle and spray your dog every few days until it is soaked. Let it air dry. You should give a teaspoon or two of straight apple cider vinegar in her food daily.

Lastly, there is an important herb you should be aware of called, Pau d’Arco. Get some for both you and your dog. It will do more than help the mange issue. It happens to be antiparastic, anticancerous, antibacterial, anticandida, and antifungal. You can get capsules and break them to put them in the dog’s food, or get the liquid & do the same thing. A human dosage would be fine, but you can economize and give it half that, daily. There is also a skin care product that you can use topically.

We’ve got the inside skinny on harmless solutions for your dog’s and cat’s Mange now in our Mange Spray guide.