As a RGN and a VN, I have seen both. Parents of a toddler who has been burnt with a hot drink, putting toothpaste on the burn, as the menthol will cool it... ( don't ask, it doesn't work ) and sheep owners rubbing mint leaves on a section of fly strike that you could put your fist in...as mint deters flies. People need teaching, or animals suffer from neglect Neglect can be over care, or lack of care, and isn't always intensional. Death by over weight is as bad as starvation.