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Uses For Aloe Vera In Pet Health Care

Wide Range of Pet Health Ailments Respond Positively to Aloe Vera Use

Aloe Vera products have been used by myself since 1992 to assist healing in farm animals. My uses for aloe vera on animals include skin disorders, infections, open wounds and abrasions.

This webpage includes examples of my personal uses with aloe vera on my own animals...cows, calves, dogs and cats.

At first sign of injury or illness aloe vera is used either internally or topically or both together.

Aloe Vera in your Pet Health Care First Aid Kit

A quality aloe vera first aid spray and a tube of gel/gelly are a good standby for small injuries, burns or bruises both for your pet and yourself.

It is important to always consult your health professional in the case of animal health care issues.

When your pet, or any animal, has been attended by a veterinarian or animal health professional aloe vera can have a role to play in speeding up the healing process. It is quite safe to use aloe vera along with the treatment prescribed.

Further down this page I relate two dog health problems where I used aloe vera - one included veterinarian treatment.

External and Internal Use of Aloe Vera Assists Healing in Cows and Calves

The following are examples of health problems affecting cows and/or calves which have responded positively to aloe vera use.

gum ulceration
pulled muscles
arthritic joints due to navel infection at birth
sore teats
abscesses
ringworm
skin problems
wounds

Cows unable to stand after calving are dosed with aloe vera twice daily until they recover.

How Aloe Vera Products Assisted Healing with two Dog Health Problems

Case 1

Because my 4 farm dogs are very healthy I only use aloe vera internally on them should they experience injuries or have operations.
Mac recently was attacked by another dog resulting in a leg swelling, lameness and minor skin punctures. Aloe vera was given daily in his food as well as being applied to his wounds and rubbed onto his leg swelling.

Within 4 days all swelling and lameness had disappeared and the puncture wounds had healed well.

Case 2

Mac again...had an operation to remove what appeared to be a tumour in his neck. Some months before he had run into a rusty, jagged metal pipe and spiked himself in the neck. It appeared to heal but then a lump developed.

The operation resulted in a 10 cm incision which Mac re-opened the night after having the stitches removed! I immediately began internal use of aloe vera and several times daily sprayed the site with aloe to hasten healing. His healing was fast and he soon returned to farm duties with no sign of another lump developing.

Pet Health Questions Answered

Numerous in depth pet health care articles and guides provide answers to pet health questions. (These 2 sites have been included for their information on pet health and care issues - they are not aloe vera sites)

Site 1

This veterinary site is loaded with some of the best information on animal health issues and useful related information I've seen.

Not only is dog health care, cat health care and farm animal health care featured but there are comprehensive articles on other animals such as birds, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits and goldfish.

Everything you need to know about pet care...eg. age, weights, housing...it is all covered.

Plus excellent guides on subjects such as...

importing/exporting pets
selecting a dog or cat
teaching children how to handle pets
introducing cats and dogs to newborn babies.
Read more...
Pet Health Questions Answered

Site 2

Prevention rather than cure with natural animal health.

Dr. Allen Schoen, veterinarian, practices natural animal health care.

Allen M. Schoen, DVM, MS and Associates, LLC is a progressive innovative veterinary practice focused on providing compassionate quality, holistic, natural veterinary care for companion animals including...

horses
dogs
cats
birds
small ruminants

Also, Aloe Vera can be applied to your dog and it can be used to bathe your dog for treatment and rtelief of hot spots as well as skin allergies.

Dr. Allen Schoen has been offering this approach since 1982 and is considered one of the pioneers in holistic medicine.

To Your Pet's Good Health!