R.B. Dawg

by Viki
(Bryceville, Florida, USA)

I was reading about Comet's adventures on his blog...any idea what he is mixed with? We had a German Shepherd mixed with BEAGLE....she looked like a GSD but had really short legs...and she would start her bark as a low rumbly, big chested GSD bark...but ended with a distinctive Beagle bay. We called her our hound from hell...although she was very friendly everyone was scared of her. I miss that dog.

When my son was little he had a speech problem and would try to say, "I'll be darned!" but it would come out "RB Dawg". That is what we named her when she came along because Billy surprised me with her. She had so many ticks on her ears that they looked like they were beaded with little seed beads. She was also covered with fleas and had an allergy to them to boot...so she barely had hair, just thick awful-looking skin with fleas everywhere. She
also had heart worms...she wandered up to Billy's work just a few weeks after our 1/2 wolf-1/2 bearded collie had died.

For a "free" dog she was probably the most expensive dog we ever had. After taking her to the vet's to be checked and dipped and told we would have to strengthen her before she could undergo treatment for the heart worms, we went about getting her healthy. We gave her herbs, canned food with dry, bathed her every day with Dawn (our vet told us about that!) and jalapeno seeds every day. It only took two months before we took her back to the vet's -- most of her hair was back, she was no longer showing ribs, and BEST of all the heart sounded much better. He gave her the arsenic treatment and she came through like a champ. He was surprised at how few heart worms she passed...and told us he was SURE there were more than that when he first tested her and listened to her heart...he asked us what we did. I told him that I had heard that jalapeno seeds would kill heart worms and that is what we gave her as well as different herbs. He laughed and said that his grandma in Texas swore by jalapeno
seeds!


Editor's note: Sorry, Viki - we've asked Comet numerous times who his parents were but he's just not tellin'!