Pharm-Aloe Aloe Vera

First, he snuck into a friend’s truck on a 110+ degree day. He’s a black dog, so it is easy to miss him if he’s in the shadows! My friend was unloading something from his truck, then headed inside to take a nap. I was visiting at the time, and working inside. I headed out to check on the dogs and see if they needed to come inside to the AC. I didn’t see Thanos, so called him for a bit then walked around looking for him…soon I realized he was nowhere, and started panicking. I ended up asking my other dog where he was, and he looked at the truck. I had a moment of realization that my friend had brought stuff inside earlier – it had now been at least 45 minutes – and ran to the truck and opened the door to find Thanos laying flat out, panting, and hardly able to get up. The windows were up, it was parked in full sun. I pulled his 60 lbs out of the truck and he was able to stagger over to the doggie pool we had out for the dogs. I covered him in water and once he was better able to walk, brought him inside. We put him in front of some fans, and I made him something he would later refer to an animal communicator as “soup” (if you believe in that! It was pretty spot on). The soup was actually a raw egg with a couple capfuls of Pharm-Aloe 4X Concentrate. I was warned by a vet friend that he would likely need to go to the emergency vet, but within a couple hours he was acting totally normal. He had zero symptoms of heat stroke, or any other signs of what he put himself through. 

The second time was mild, but he had gotten into a bag of those dark chocolate covered acai berry things, as well as a container of aussie bites (yes the things from Costco). He had eaten most all of them! Besides throwing up chocolate for a day, he was soon fine.

The third was the most incredible, and can easily be related to horses in a state of colic. This dog decided to get into a horse’s bucket of hay pellets and eat a generous amount while at the barn. I didn’t realize it, and when his tummy inevitably hurt he did what he has been known to do – look for grass to eat. When there is no grass, he starts eating ANYTHING else he can, in a frantic frenzy that I usually spot right away. This day I was distracted by visitors, so I didn’t catch him instantly and threw him in the car once I did. I didn’t realize he’d eat the rope dog toy that was in there (he’s not a dog to eat objects ever, usually). Honestly, I didn’t know the toy was missing until several days later, when I also realized he had eaten a bunch of hay pellets. Over the next couple days, he was doing okay but not great. He ate, and pooped, I thought he would be fine. I was giving him a little 4X Concentrate periodically because it soothed his throat, which was sore. But by day 3 he stopped pooping and started throwing up everything he ate and drank. I can’t remember how many days this spanned total, but his tummy was huge and he was clearly miserable. I was watching him closely, ready to take him to the vet if absolutely necessary, but hoping he would pull through as he had so many times before. I remembered I had an AloeGut in my room, and started giving him some of that every couple hours. Then he started gorging himself on water. He would fill himself up, very noticeably as his stomach would enlarge, then throw it all up. I would give him more aloe. We did this for a few hours, and then suddenly he started throwing up what I later realized to be partially digested hay pellets. It was a ton. Then came the rope toy…which had apparently been stuck in his gut for several days at this point! It was a long rope toy, I have no idea how he was able to regurgitate it after so much time inside him. I continued giving him aloe throughout the day and he was back to being his normal self within a day or so. He now gets aloe daily! 

Aloe is beneficial for so much, but gut motility is one thing that I don’t think it gets much credit for due to a lack of studies. This experience, while certainly anecdotal, carries a lot of weight for me! And I know that many horses have had colic issues resolved with Pharm-Aloe’s products, too.