I think my email is haunted these days... Let me know if this comes thru okay?
I wrote:
Yep, animals can need syphilinum! Tho I do wonder how common it could be...
A few years ago I had a wonderful case from our cow, given to us at a few days old by friends who knew I do funny things with animals
to see if we wanted to try to save her. She had chronic, relapsing pneumonia from birth, as well as some birth defects--front hooves turned under, and apparently a cleft in the roof of her mouth? Short version--Syph 10M at a few weeks old (after several other remedies had failed, and antibiotics turned her around only briefly), then she did very well, became happier and apparently healthy. Sometime in young adulthood she developed to be just a very strange cow, veery tall, and thin, then later with a really, really odd and very un-cow-like personality, a blend of demented loner and overly needy--from people, tho she shunned the rest of her small herd. Finally I realized, duh, she needed more syphilinum, and it turned her literally overnight back into a relaxed and normally sociable cow, who preferred cows over people and grazed happily. (Her herd had *never* shunned her; it had been from her side.) Really striking...The other thing that fascinated me about the incident, was the way I wound up dosing her. I had made a water dose and sprinkled it onto a bucket with a bit of grain, which normally they love, as they rarely get it! She stuck her head into the bucket, gave a derisive sniff and a snort, and stalked away. I wondered whether that "olfaction" would work--and it certainly did!
Shannon
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