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This from the relevant paragraph from the FAQ, Jim:
"Why do you send out an homeopathic Free Treatment for mange in foxes when there is conventional treatment available?
We send out the homeopathic treatment because it’s safe and effective. We have been sending out this treatment for over 20 years with brilliant results. We are not homeopaths and we do use conventional medicine when we have hands on with a fox. The conventional mange treatment Ivomectin, can be very dangerous for many reasons. The first being that if a dog with any collie line in it, was to take food meant for the fox that was laced with Ivomectin it could kill the dog. Since the life cycle of the mite is three weeks, Ivomectin is best given once a week for three weeks. If you were to miss a dose, it wouldn’t be effective. Also to try to target just one fox, when you are likely to have more than one visiting is very hit and miss. We have also found that for a fox with advanced mange, this could prove to be the kill rather than the cure. When one thinks how many mites are living and breeding on the host and one injection kills them all, the toxins from all these dead mites can overload an already overstretched immune system. We feel that a fox with advanced mange should be brought in a stabilised with re-hydration fluids and antibiotics before conventional mange treatment starts. Many think of homeopathic treatments as the placebo effect, but since foxes are not aware they are being treated with alternative medicine, the placebo effect can’t work. We send it our free of charge, why would we, if we didn’t think it was effective?".
I'm more convinced by the "why we don't" part than by the "why we do".