In addition to the CS...Dump the commercial diet and give him whole fresh foods to rebuild his health. Raw would be best. If you can't mince up raw chicken use ground, organic if you can find it. Add raw chicken livers (one or two per day) and some fresh finely chopped parsley or juice, not much 'bout 1/2 tsp per meal if he's eating 1/4 cup of food, for the minerals and vitamins. Add a pinch of unrefined salt (Redmond's realsalt, Himalayan or celtic). Give him pure filtered (distilled would be best) water. Give him Iodine too. Trapper (over at the Iodine supplement forum) sells some super saturated potassium Iodide with a bottle of magnascent Iodine on the side, a drop or two in his food or water daily, or kelp powder, if you can find one certified free of arsenic. Another thing that would be good is get some good pescalite clay and put in his water. Perry at livingclay.com usually has a good deal on it. If he'll let you, packing his gums (according to Perry) will help draw out the infection and tighten the teeth. Teeth can re-mineralize if given the nutrition to do so. Once you get the dental situation on the mend, maybe picking up some frozen mice or pinky rats at your local pet store (used to feed snakes) would give him all the organs and will help even more. Organic raw eggs are very healing too. You can cook it slightly if it'll get him to eat it. Oh, I forgot good ole raw apple cider vinegar. A splash of a 1/8-1/2 cap in his food (start slow) will give him vital enzymes. A good probiotic, (don't bother with Purina's pet version) a good multi-strain probiotic in capsules is all you need, open a capsule in his food once a day.

Have you had any blood work done to see how his kidneys are doing? If they're headed towards CRF, there's a link about baking soda and charcoal capsules for turning kidneys around. I think I downloaded it to my pc. I'll see if I can find it and post the info.

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Yeah Colloidal Silver , I forgot about that!

Yes, take care of that guy, he is Gold! :) If he made it this long he can keep on going!

all of the suggestions are wonderful. He is absolute gold simply due to his interesting personality. For those who believe that animals don't have souls they just need to experience their pet's mirth and unconditional love to know that they do have a soul. THANK you so much for the advice!