Giz/Emma and everyones pets on the board

of course Mike, Rosebud will be included in the thoughts and prayers list. Just an FYI.. my daughter goes on to this thread to see everyone Pets.. oh daddy I don't care about chainsaws, wood piles etc.. i like to be warm (by woodstove) and see the animals pics! She had Maple in bedtime prayers before I knew she was sick

 

Thanks. Going through the list already. We have a HUGE amount of Lyme in our area and I recently picked several partially engorged ticks off of her. I hope it's just Lyme. She's had it before, even though she has been vaccinated and is on year round Frontline+. We are going to start her on doxycycline empirically tomorrow. I promise to keep you up to date. Thanks for letting me "share" with you all. What at great group of people.

 

Both are decent foods. But it goes back to what they will tolerate. I know that I have to mix foods for a while if I want to change them over. I'm all for feeding them the same food you eat so long as it doesn't have food like onions and grapes etc. and it is food you do eat, not what you would cut off and toss away. One of my dogs loves to eat raw carrots with me. She also loves Broccoli and Brussels Spouts. She steals cucumbers of the vines and will eat summer squash. Sugar peas have to be fenced in to keep her out of them. I didn't have much of a garden last year, so she got the stuff from the market.

 

mike bayerl , of course Rosebud is in our thoughts here at our crazy dog family.

Hopefully it's something that she can fight past.

 

I have been advised that it is contraindicated to vaccinate for Lyme's if your dog has tested positive for Lyme's. My dog got it and his record is marked "do not vaccinate for Lyme's". Good luck with the doxycycline. as always with an antibiotic, please consider giving her probiotics with it. Otherwise, she is going to have cramps and diarrhea and might become dehydrated. Big pharmacy has tripled the price for doxycycline. Big demand for it with Lyme's so prevalent. I had to be treated twice in a row with that Rx when I contracted Lyme's. That med is rough of the system.

 

Sweet kid. This is a good place for her.

 

my vet from Cornell before he retired.. two past dogs both tested positive for lyme.. he put them on an aggressive cycline but not dox for 6 months 1 year later new vet said they did not have Lyme tested negative still trying to figure out exactly what it was but a Cornell program

8 years ago vaccination was not available

 

Not contraindicated to vax for Lyme after infection, just a waste of money. Once, they've had it, they have been naturally "vaccinated" so the vaccine doesn't do anything better. Rosie was vax'd before she got her first case of Lyme. FWIW, >50% of all dogs in our area have been infected by Lyme disease. Also, our vet has given us a very generous doxy Rx, enough for several treatments. She understands that we know what we are doing, and whenever a dog gets a limp, we should wait a week to see if it heals, if not, then a week of doxy, before we even need to bring the dog in for further eval. We've been down that road >10 times, and I'm a physician, so she trusts our judgement.

 

Prayers for Rosebud - hopefully the meds take care of it!

 

awww

 

That's good for her.

 

Looking @ that, it's hard to believe she can be such a He$$ raiser.........................