Give your pet some garlic everyday

If your pet dog and cat is nearing middle age or older, it is time to add some garlic to your pet's food. Garlic protects against cancer, enhances immunity and even reduces the formation of athero-sclerotic plaques and thrombi. In companion animals too, garlic has been found to be beneficial in reducing cholesterol levels, and even lowering blood sugar levels.

Neem for scabies

In scabies, the skin has a tendency to become crusty and very, very itchy. What you need to do is dab some neem- pongamia oil mixture gently on all the affected areas. Chances are that in a few weeks time, your pet's skin and fur will glow with good health. Often, in mite infestation, the mites come out of their burrows at night. That's when your pet will be at its itchiest worst. Therefore, consult your veterinarian about an anpruritic agent that can be given as a syrup or tablet. At the same time, apply the wonderful neem-pongamia oil everyday, thrice a day - at intervals of eight hours. Neem being bitter will discourage your pet from itching. That means a faster pace of recovery.

Listed below are some ways in which you can use garlic to help heal your pet.

• For skin boils and other bacterial infections:
  Take a bulb of garlic. Crush it and extract the juice. Apply raw garlic juice on the infected areas. Within a week, you will see that your pet's wound has healed and is back to normal.
• As a circulation toner, blood purifier and cancer preventer:
  Take half a clove of raw garlic. Mash it well. Add the clove in your pet's food everyday. Half a clove of raw garlic should be sufficient if your pet is a large dog. If your pet is a small breed of dog or cat, then a quarter clove of garlic should be enough. However, what you need to make sure is that the garlic that you use is raw not any preserved form of garlic.
• The raw garlic will help to improve the circulation, cure any stomach indigestion and flatulence. Besides this, if you give your pet garlic regularly, it will also help to prevent against cancer. However, if your pet already has cancer, then giving garlic may not help very much. However, it can protect your pet from getting worse or developing new tumours.
• Another property that garlic has is that it is also a powerful anti-oxidant. Therefore, when you give your pet garlic regularly, it also helps to reduce some of the degenerative changes seen with aging.
• Regular consumption of garlic has been found to help reduce the ability of blood to clot and form clots i.e. an anti-thrombotic action effect.
• Another age associated change is the development of atherosclerosis i.e. the hardening and narrowing of the blood vessels due to formation of plaque inside the vessel wall. Garlic has also been found to reduce high lipid levels and reduce plaque formation.
• Garlic is especially useful for female pets:
  Garlic also contains compounds that are weakly oestrogenic. This useful medicinal plant has compounds that have low concentrations of oestrogen and other related compounds. Therefore, although garlic may be very useful for your pets, it may also adversely affect the fertility of your male pet, especially if you have serious plans to breed your pet. Consult your veterinarian before you start your pet on a long term course of medication with garlic.

Conclusion
May be you would like to try out garlic for your pet. Try growing some garlic at home.