Home remedies to stop your pet from itching this summer

Why use dangerous steroids? 

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You can stop an itchy pet from scratching himself silly with an inexpensive combination of herbs and supplements, pure essential oils and that old standby – ordinary Epsom salt – from your supermarket.

That’s the word people who’ve put a stop to their own “best friend’s” suffering with tried-and-true home remedies after the dangerous steroids and anti-histamines that were recommended by their veterinarian’s didn’t work.

“Itching can be caused by everything from mange and dandruff to food and contact allergies and even mosquitoes, fleas and poison oak and poison ivy,” says Susan Ambrosino, health writer, herb expert and also founder of Susan Ambrosino’s Herb Club, Inc., which sells a “stop-itch” herbal complex for itchy pets.

“But once you’ve ruled out

Woman fights off crocodile with her bare hands – her story in her words

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A  young marine biologist narrowly escaped a horrifying death when she was snatched up in the crushing jaws of one of the most relentless killing machines on Earth – an African crocodile.

 

Despite the shock waves of pain that surged through her body, 23-year-old Dominique Vildeau battled the savage beast with her bare fists until it finally released its death grip, giving her time to swim to safety.

 

“I never saw it until it grabbed my leg and pulled me down,” Vildieu told me in a telephone interview from her hospital room in Kinshasa, Zaire, where surgeons struggled for hours in a successful effort to save her left leg.

 

“The first I knew of it was when I felt its teeth crunch into … story continues at derekclontz.com