Well, I just thought that I would quickly write... Another HOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT day in Vancouver, B.C.

I am the "Mommy" of a 7-year old Dalmatian named Bandit. He has been QUITE a handful, while we have been together.

Lately he has been waking up every night at 2:00 a.m. with shaking his head incessantly (non-stop) and whining. So it has been making for me having rather TIRED days. Since we are both up from that point until the sun comes up.

I have done an online investigation for his variety of symptoms (he has others - which I will elaborate below.) I strongly don't believe in going to a Vet (unless it's a broken bone or his intestines are basically hanging out LOL). Home remedies/naturopath is my way.

So here are the online/home remedies I have found for his symptoms - Which he has all of the below. Don't get a Dalmatian if you want a low maintenance dog. Or a cling-on - He has hysterics if he does not "see" HIS human. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Well I have discovered that Bandit has ear mites. Transferrable by CATS. So yes, there has been a New Cat introduced into our home recently. I call her FatCat (which she is - nasty name but she is a Foster Cat and I refuse to name her further than that - due to not wanting to form an attachment for when she is adopted from our home.) So yayyyyyyyyyyyy, FatCat brought EarMites presents for Bandit. So the solution is Vitamin E oil and Olive Oil to be massage into his ears. Great!!!!!

The bonus of the Olive Oil is that it has a dual purpose. I pour it onto his morning dish of food (1 capful) and this works for his excessively DRY skin. Which is shown by his incessant scratching. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

Yogurt (again 1 capful) is thrown onto his foodstuff/morning. This removes the itchiness/dry skin too.

Garlic pills - For removal of fleas. Seems that fleas are classified as "vampiric" therefore do not like garlic. Sorry, VERY bad joke there. LOL But he sweats out the garlic and it "supposedly" kills the fleas. So 3 pills/day. Morning.

Also black tea is to remove his red patches/itchy patches of skin.

This is all DAILY. Yeeeeeeeeeeeehaw.

Takes 1 week/10 days for treatment to "start" to make a difference.

I will keep an online/daily journal here to make notes if Bandit is BETTER.

Natural/home remedies solutions vs. dragging him off to the Vet for drugs/other medications. Wonder IF home remedies WORK? I will give it ONE FULL MONTH for a difference to be noted. i.e. No more of his symptoms - None. Therefore SUCCESS. Otherwise after the September long weekend Bandit is being dragged, literally, kicking and whining, off to the Vet.

With me very angry that the Home Remedies did not work. But I found these "remedies" on the PetSmart website. So let's see if they are telling the Truth - Home remedy wise.

P.S.

I have continued to try to post PHOTOS here... Not cut'n'paste but URL linkage and NOT WORKING would appreciatte HELP HERE. WHY DOESN'T my photo uploading work in any way here? P's me off, as I had a really CUTE photo of a Dalmation to post...