[Magdalen] Canine Update.

[Sally Davies]

So glad she's on the mend, David.

We have a lot of Biliary disease here so we go to some trouble to keep the
animals free of ticks and fleas. Currently the dogs are getting Nexgard
once a month, which they gobble like delicious doggie treats.

The cats have to have spot on treatments - we vary between Advantage,
Revolution, Frontline and Fiprotec, any of which can earn us a deep scratch
if we aren't quick enough or fail to catch them by surprise.

Apparently there's a three-monthly spot on which will soon be on the
market, that will be a relief to everyone.

Previously we used the long lasting Serta dog collars on our Dachshunds and
they were excellent but are quite expensive.

Sally D

On Friday, 22 January 2016, 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.
>
>