[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: purely accidental things can lead to discovery
- From: Terry Cochran <terrycochran97756@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "SoilentGrn@xxxxxxx" <SoilentGrn@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:40:35 -0700
Legs us know how it turns out.
TC
Sent from my iPad
On Jun 16, 2013, at 5:30 PM, SoilentGrn@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Sometimes the oddest posts can lead you into discovery.
> All the side trips of health and genetics, then with Ken's post about his
> dog's pedigree on this list.
> THE REST OF THE STORY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH KEN'S DOG'S BREEDING, IT WAS
> JUST MY CURIOSITY OF THAT, THAT LEAD ME INTO THIS DICOVERY.
>
> From Ken's post I was curious as I read something long ago of his dog's
> breeding on another list so I was busy trying to find that. Talk about a
> change of direction, here goes.
>
> Well, I got waylaid in the search as I read an old post about Gauss v
> Stauderpark, about his sore feet. I opened the post about Gauss because I
> had
> already read by someone who worked him that he was one wonderful working
> dog of the old style.
>
> That brought to my mind a bitch I had about 30 years ago who had the same
> foot syndrome. We did not know what to call it at the time and no known
> treatment that we knew of, but since we did not know the name we winged it
> in
> treatment. I had biopsied a swelling on the ear of her son and it was
> indeed staph. Although it was not in the feet, we knew to run them on grass
> rather than dirt. I don't know why but it helped. I went into the dogs
> pedigrees of Gauss and the inbreeding on a certain dog in my bitch's
> pedigree
> of 30 years ago and could find no particular connection.
>
> From the posts on Gauss I found the name, chronic interdigital cysts. A
> staph infection and most probably an immune problem. Also can be associated
> with chronic ear infections. Could be something in there is hereditary but
> who knows which thing.
>
> Now for the rest of the story.
> I currently have a ten year old bitch who has had chronic ear infections
> and I have complained for three years that she has big feet, not sore but
> strangely odd big feet that she did not have before. (No relation to any of
> the previous dogs.) In the last two months she has developed unusual
> granular growths in the leather of her ears, on her nose and up the bridge of
>
> her nose, and around her eyes. We have been throwing the list of cures at
> her going on the probable cause it is Lupus. I was about to give up as the
> meds we are giving are holding at bay and keeping her reasonably
> comfortable and slowed the rate of increase, I was about to give it up and
> not
> torture the dog anymore.
>
> Because of these non-related posts that got me searching on something
> completely unrelated, and an accidental running across the old post and a
> history of my own to draw on, then a list of treatments for that desease, my
> girl may have new hope. My vet may think I am nuts but he is always willing
> to investigate my gut feelings especially since I told him for years
> something about these big feet is wayyy back in my memory. I cannot wait to
> hear
> what his friend the internist has to say about this.
>
> Lissa
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