I have a becoming-ancient lab who enjoyed stunningly good health for the first of his 13 or so years.
Then, beginning about a year ago, catastrophe hit: he developed hot spots so severe that he was gnawing himself into a bloody state. Needless to say, I was horrified. My beautiful boy’s gorgeous reddish-golden coat was being torn out in clumps by his incessant gnawing. Even worse, my gentle giant was so stressed and unhappy.
I tried everything. Nothing worked, and I was feeling so, so sad and so, so bad for him. Here I’d been hoping for an old age befitting him, one in which he claimed his rightful place on the porch stoop communing with the chickadees, buffing ominously (his form of warning) at the squirrels, cuddling with his beloved, the red houndie girl.
But it appeared it wasn’t to be, that my lovely boy was doomed to an old age plagued by a mysterious ailment causing him endless anguish.
And then, a miracle substance was recommended to me by an old hand with the critters: Nu-Stock, a strange brew of sulfur and pine oil.
Yes, it’s true, the first time I used it, he was profoundly distressed. By the next day, however, his symptoms were almost gone, for the first time in months. And by Day 3, my happy, beautiful gentle giant was back, chasing down whatever leaf was foolish enough to fall in the yard, investigating odd tunnels (inhabited by frogs, I’ve come to find out), carefully making his twice-daily patrol of the premises to ensure our safety from the throngs of squirrels trying to break in.
It’s a messy, stinky stuff, but I’m now on my third time using it and enjoying the same success. It’s brilliant stuff, a bit pricey at $17+ a tube, but worth it. And I’ve met other people who’ve had even more striking success with it, including a burly old farmer who adopted an abandoned peekapoo who’d completely lost her fur. That little peekapoo is now the apple of his eye with lovely locks and a shine in her eye.
Worth every cent and highly recommended. And, no, I’m not getting paid for this endorsement. 
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Hello sweet biscuit!
Did you bring back a memory for me! When I was a teenager, Mom & Dad “inherited” the next door neighbor’s German Shepherd, Fraulein. She was about 5 at the time. I remember Daddy sitting on the back steps and rubbing this vile smelling combination on her legs, her ear tips to combat the flies and mosquitos, and wherever else he thought it was needed. It was a homemade concoction of powdered sulfur and some kind of oil. He used that on her when the winters were mild and the fleas and ticks were prolific. She was so grateful and loved Daddy so much. She lived to 16.
I’m glad to see it’s still being used and it still works!
Yea, it works! I’d tried everything, and this was the only thing that worked. It’s worth its weight in gold, I think.
I am so glad your big ole boy is happy again in his old age. Lovely!
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