“Scooter” is a 13-year old Yellow Lab we took in after the untimely death of his owner. We take in sick and injured or mistreated animals. Normally we get them well and find homes for them, but we knew “Scooter” would be spending the rest of his days here at Maranatha Farm. He was a very sweet old dog but grossly overweight.

When he came in, “Scooter” could barely drag his hulk around the Big Yard, but he could always be found close to Yancey’s Pond where he enjoyed the cool water. “Scooter” would get wet in the pond and then go find a shady spot to nap for an hour or so.

After he had been here a couple of months he ap­peared to have lost some of the excess weight, but a smelly and very unsightly fungus of some kind had begun to attack his skin and coat. I tried a couple of sulphur solutions on him but the condition one of our youth volunteers had begun calling “the creeping crud” was clearly getting the best of “Scooter”. Ugly black patches formed on his legs and belly, and his hair fell out, especially on his legs and wherever there were skin folds.

When Art Martin brought us a sample box of Path-Away® I figured it might be a good cleaner for cat litterboxes and it did prove effective for that use, which was nice but hardly cause for excitement. The Path-Away® spray bottle was on our bathing deck where we clean litterboxes the day I gave “Scooter” a bath and decided if I could not get the fungus under control we probably ought to start thinking about putting him down rather than have him suffer with it. I grabbed the bottle of Path-Away® after I towelled “Scooter” off, and sprayed him down with it thor­oughly. He appeared to have no objection and once he was dry I let him back out into the yard.

The very next day I could see the black patches were now a dull gray color. Within a week all the patches were gone. Now I spray “Scooter” with the Path-Away® once a week or so, whenever I think of it, and he has no more problems with his skin. His coat is growing back. Path-Away® is a good product and I look forward to exploring more ways we can make use of its anti-fungal and bacterial properties.

Karen Wilkins, Founder

Maranatha Farm