[Magdalen] Canine Update.

[Jay Weigel]

Glad to hear she is on the mend, David! I know Wilfred is ecstatic.

I had never been much of a fan of spaniels until I met my GYN's dog, who
comes to the office with her. Bentley is half black cocker and half
Japanese chin, with the sweetness of the cocker combined with the dignity
of the chin. He is the coolest dog I've met in years and I once told the
doc that if he were a human, I'd marry him. She informed me that I'd
probably have to get in line.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
> A followup on our sick black Cocker Spaniel:
>
> She tested positive for canine erlichiosis, a tick borne rickettsial
> disease,
> secondary to Erlichia canis.
>
> Her symptoms read like a text book illustration of this condition,  about
> which I knew nothing because it's uncommon in humans who can get
> it by tick bite).
>
> Reading about this condition, her nose bleeds should have pointed
> in the right diagnostic direction earlier, and I'm more than a bit  cross
> that so very many $$$ have been spent over the past couple of years
> in treating this, incorrectly labeled canine autoimmune hemolytic  anemia.
>
> The dog is taking oral doxycycline and receiving weekly  Chloramphenical
> injections.  She is clinically much improved, and has been out  of
> hospital for several days.
>
> She is the one long-haired dog we have that is difficult to monitor  for
> ticks.  Further, she doesn't run about much out of our dog  enclosures,
> making tick bites unusual.  We'll simply have to be more  vigilant.
>
>
>
> David Strang.
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