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His family photographed the whole road back.
“He had lost 25 to 30 pounds and looked like a bus had run over him.”
Around late October, Alf Ralph, the McCormicks' Great Pyrenees, started showing yeasty skin symptoms on his belly and legs. Their vet sent them home with a two-week course of skin medications. Two weeks later the problem was noticeably worse: Alf was scratching and biting at himself constantly, pulling at his own hair.
The vet offered more of the same. After that conversation his family wasn't confident he was being diagnosed properly, and within three weeks Alf had pulled out much of the hair he could reach and bitten his feet raw. He had lost 25 to 30 pounds. He had stopped coming out of his doghouse.
The photo the family labeled "Alf, before Nzymes," dated February 16th, 2007.
He had bitten and pulled out his hair everywhere he could reach.
While searching out a second vet, Alf's owner mentioned his condition to the doctors she works for. One of them had been through skin trouble with her own dog and pointed her to Nzymes.com. There she found the photos of Blizzard, another dog whose skin had collapsed the same way, and recognized Alf immediately.
She ordered the Healthy-Skin Kit (now called the Skin Rescue Bundle), and by late November Alf was on a steady regimen.
About two months in: the coat comes back along his spine first.
Weight returning, eyes up, out of the doghouse.
Through the cold months Alf lived in the garage, hand-fed two large meals a day so his family could be sure every bit of the regimen went in. And on a regular basis they photographed him, deliberately, so they could see the progress the day-to-day couldn't show them.
After about three months, Alf was well on the mend: most of his weight back, hair returning all over his body, out of the garage, playing with the other dog and the cat again. His family wrote it all down and sent it to us, photos included; the "before" shot carries their own label, dated February 16th, 2007.
Out of the garage: back to patrolling his deck.
Thanks for your products. I hope these pictures help someone else with their pet.
Six months after that letter, his family sent an update: coat filling out thick, and the darkened skin turning back to its normal pink, the pink patches growing, the black ones shrinking. The dog who wouldn't leave his doghouse was back to his yard, his dog, and his cat.
The same small family team that answers the itchy-dog call every day is a phone call away. Tell us what's going on with your dog's skin, what you've already tried, and how long it's been. We were built for the calls nobody else takes.
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Back then it was called the Healthy-Skin Kit. Today it's the Skin Rescue Bundle: the same answer Alf's family found, six products that rebuild from within and calm the outside, with the interactive guide and support included.
Maybe that's yours. Alf's comeback was in 2007; the same family, the same free customer care, and the same 120-Day Worry-Free Guarantee are still here today.
