An unsolicited testimonial for Vetericyn

A few months ago, I was at the vet clinic to pick up Hank's medicine and used the opportunity to ask our favorite vet if this Vetericyn stuff I'd been hearing about was any good. Vetericyn, a "one-step wound and infection treatment," is being advertised heavily on RFD-TV and in all the horse magazines, and it sounded to me like it was way too good to be true. Safe as water! Designed to replicate the actions of the animal’s own immune system to heal wounds and fight infections! Call me a skeptic. But when our vet said, "we're using it here," that was good enough for me, and I bought a bottle to have on hand if when one of the boys wounded himself.

Ironically, George wounded himself on the way to the vet last Monday. He managed to rub off the hide at the base of his tail during the trailer ride. The wound was almost bad enough to make my houseguest swoon. When we got home, I pulled out the bottle of Vetericyn and gave the area a few squirts.

There are several really cool things about this product, aside from the fact that it works, which I'll get to in a minute.
1. The stuff sprays out of the bottle as a liquid but turns to a gel when it hits the wound, so it stays put and doesn't drip.
2. The spray bottle works at any angle, even upside down, and is the best spray bottle I've ever used. Whomever invented this spray bottle should be given a Nobel prize. If fly spray came in this kind of a bottle, I would be the happiest horseowner on the planet.

Here's a picture of George's wound about 20 hours after the injury, as I'm spraying Vetericyn on it for the second time:

About 12 hours later, I took this picture:

I was amazed at how quickly the wound was healing, and Vetericyn is not paying me to say this. There will always be a bottle of this stuff in my equine first-aid kit.

Here is a link to their website if you're interested. I bought the Vetericyn VF Veterinary Formula HydroGel - it was $32 for a 16 oz bottle at my vet's office, which seems like a bargain considering its effectiveness...and the fact that I'll be able to recycle the perfect spray bottle once it's empty.