Herbs for animals-Dry Winter Skin

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Firstly, If your cat has dry skin do not bathe it.

I have never in forty years bathed a cat, unless if

got some oil or tar etc on its fur and it was never a pleasant

experience for either of us.

Anyway, for dry skin on a cat I would begin to supplement

the diet with some high quality fatty acids(oil). ie. fish oil,

and vitamin E added to food etc.

I would also change their diet. Dry skin in people and animals

is usually an internal problem that can be corrected by

changes in diet. If you still feed your cat commercial cat foods,

their are some that help with dry skin, but I can't remember

which ones. see links below.

 

Michael

 

http://frrpetfood.tripod.com/

http://www.bestforpet.com/

http://www.petshealthcare.com/pages/dryskinsup.html

http://www.healthypet.com/Library/cat_dog_health-9.html

 

herbal remedies, " Sandy " <innerchildtheone> wrote:

> Hello, I love tea tree oil in my shampoo, I noticed that many cat

> shampoos have this ingredient to relieve dry skin and it works for

> me too. My question is, can I do anything else to relieve my two

> cats' dry itchy winter skin? I've tried aloe, calendula, and fennel,

> with no luck. They love the treatments all right, start purring as

> soon as I come near them with the cotton balls, but not real

> results. When they itch they run the risk of infection by tearing the

> skin so I use hydrogen peroxide to cut down on that.

>

> I can't use straight tea tree oil, the problem with one of the cats is

> she hates the smell in the herbal wash and will lick it off

> immediately, causing hairballs because she is a " neurotic

> groomer " , when irritated she will groom constantly. The other

> one loves it. So far they both are okay with calendula, and aloe

> but neither are working that well. I use aloe with calendula oil in

> olive oil for my own skin and it seems to work, would this be okay

> for cats?

>

> But really I need new ideas for these two.

>

> Thank you, Sandy