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um, i don't know of homeopathic drugs, but i know Panalog mixed with some baby oil works very well... Ask your vet. My vet takes commericial Panalog and mixes it 50-50 with baby oil, so it is good for an infection as well as cleaning out the excess ear wax...

I would just like to appoligize for my orrignal comment when i asked PBLover to be baned. I am very sorry. I was taken aback by that first post, and did not know that there was a real problem Sorry everyone.

[b]The How-to of Flee Care[/b] ok, to start i would get frontline, since that works best out of anything on the market (that you can get without a vet). Apply that. It depends on how bad the infestation is in your home. At the very least increase vacuming in your house, and espically vacume in the corners or next to the wall. This is where the flees are. If it is a bad infestation, you can bomb the house. Go to a pet store, and ask someone if they have flee bomb or something of the sort (i don't know the accutal name) It comes in a can that you put in the room, turn it on, and for a certin amount of time, and it kills 90% of the flees. If this dosen't seem to help, go to the pet store and buy Capstar. This is a tablet that also helps with flees. This dosen't work as well as frontline, but the two combined will help. [b] <u> It will take about 3 mounths to kill all the flees[/b] </u> [b]To find out if there ARE flees[/b] Take a flee comb, or some narrow toothed comb (EXTREAMLY NARROW TOOTHED). Take a pice of papertowel and wet it with water, or alchichol. Make it damp. take your dog and comb him/her with the flee comb. Comb enough so that there is some fur stuck into the comb. you can hold the comb so that you catch extra stuff. Spread the hair on the wet papertowel. You are looking for dirt. If you see a pice of dirt take a pen, forceps, or something and crush the pice of durt. If the dirt is red, than it is flee dirt. Flee dirt is what the baby flees eat. If there is flee dirt, there are flees. If there is a lot of flee dirt, there is a lot of flees... [b]how flees reproduce[/b] Flees need the blood of your dog and/or cat to reproduce. They can suck human blood, but it dose not help them reproduce, so on a hole we are safe. Frontline sterilizes the flees and kills them, so that they fall of dead, and are sterilized, so that they cannot reproduce [b]Last Words[/b] I would sugest taking your dogs to the vet. If you have dogs and cats, you will need to treat all of them. Flees are a relativly cheep thing to treat (relative...no vet bill is cheep...). At the vet I work for for each dog, it will come out somewhere around, oh, $70 a dog, including the cost of Frontline, though this could go up to $100, depending on the size of the dog (bigger dog, more money). Good Luck! I hope this helps!

REALLY!!??!!?? I had never heard of that, I will look into it. Thank you

Fort Dodge is one of the worst vacciene manufactures. I have also heard of reactions caused by there distember shot and i belive it is also not uncommon for over-reactions from the rabies shot. I know at the vet office we work for we only use Merial, which is a much better company. Good luck with your case, and your dog

when you do change food, remmeber to do it slowly. mix in the food and then slowly take away the old food. So the first day feed 75% old food, 25% new food, on the secound day feed 50-50, on the third day feed 25% old food 75% new food, and by the fourth day everyone should be ok. This isn't deadly, it just keeps them from possibly getting the runs and/or vomiting. Good luck with the food search, tell us what you end up feeding

K, or whoever is admining this board or moderating this board, please ban this guy

It could have been that the grass was sprayed with some pescitide, or there was some posin ivy/poisy oak type of thing in the grass.

I wouldn't give any meds before talking to the vet. I would sugest giving a different diet if this is a recurring problem. You can eather try Response from Eukanuble, Z/D low alergen or ultra low alergen diet, or Purina's Sensitive Skin Sensitive Stumach. The Sensitive Skin Sensitive Stumach is the only diet that isn't perscription, and you can buy from any pet store. But i would sugest taking her to the vet. Good Luck!

I do not know about Advantage, but i do know about Advantix. Advangix is better then frontline in tick prevention. And i mean a lot better. I work in a vet office, and i know many people who sware by it. I also live in Rockland County, in lower New York, just north of the city, and we have a lot of ticks in our area, and few flees. Advantix is a bit more expensive, but i belive that it is worth it in my area. Frontline is better with flees then advantix from what i can tell. There was a pug that came into the office with a heavy flee infestation. We applyed advantix, and it did not improve. We gave a capstar pill, but that did not help eather. We then applyed Frontline, and that cleared it up. While this is, of corse, not an offical case study, and could have just been fron this one case, it looks like Frontline is better for Flees, thought it will do ticks, and Advantix is better for Ticks, but it will work on flees. Advantix is also advertised on having bugspray, so mosquetos won't bite, but i don't belive that... Also, the difference is that with Frontline, the flee or tick needs to suck the blood before it dies. With Advantix, the flee or tick just needs to clime on the fur, and then it will fall off dead. DO NOT GIVE ADVANTIX TO CATS. IT WILL KILL THEM. THERE LIVER AND KIDNEYS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE MEDICEN. IT IS NOT LIKE FRONTLINE WHERE YOU CAN GIVE A BIG CAT A SMALL DOG DOSE. IT WILL KILL A CAT I hope this helps clarify Zac

Well, what did the vet do last time??? If he is scooting his butt on the carpet or floor, it could be that his anal glands need to be expressed... I would take him to the vet and see what the vet says.

That is a hard one... The vet has done everything i can think of. I would check to see if anything is stuck inbetween the paw pads. I have seen 2 cases when the dog has been limping and/or biting at the paw because there was some mated hair/forign body inbetween the paw pads, so i would check for that... Usually Rimadyl will help with limping and pain within a a day or two. The only other thing i can think about is giving a depo shot (a steroid injection). that could help for pain, but that usually dosen't give an answer about what the orrignal issue is. She may need a MRI or Cat scan of her leg... Good Luck!!!! Let us know how it turns out

To clarify everyone: A heartworm test is done yearly to check for heartworms. If your dog has heartworms and you give the pill (or injection) it is potentionally lethal, since you will be killing the heartworms while they are in the heart. I would recomend one of the mounthly tablets. There are 3 types, Heartguard, Interceptor, and Sentinal. Heartguard jsut prevents heartworms, Interceptor (if i remember correctly) will protect aginst heartworm and flees, and Sentinal (i belive, but i may be mixing up interceptor and sentinal) protects aginst heartworms and intestinal parisites. I hope this helps Zac

I know it can be a merical medication. For minor pain we will usually perscribe Cosiquin (glucomiene) and i know it works amazingly well, and some people sware by it. However, it was also taken out of the market in the USA for humans. Thanks everyone!!!

It souds like a wart. All older dogs get them. They are very commen, and they are benign. For your pice of mind, take him to the vet, but i think hes fine. How old is he. If he is about 7 or older, it is proubly just a wart. Zac

It dose not sound like epilepicy. I agree with Cassie though. If you are at all worried bring him to the vet. While it is proubly nothing, it would be worth it to rest your mind. Zac

It could just be an alergan to something he walked in (pesticides?). I would sugest taking him to the vet. they will proubly give a depomedrial injection (a steroid show which will stop it from itching, so he will stop biting and licking at it, so it can heal) and some clavamax or some other antibiotic if there is an open wound, and maybe even some topical medication, depending on how bad it is. I hope he gets better soon Zac

There are many diffrent compines out there, each offering something a bit different. The important thing to know about the pet incurance compnies is that you will pay the vet, and then file a claim, and the company will reimburse you for what ever percent of your expences they offer. This is differnt then human incurance (from what i understand) where the company pays the doctor directly. There are also different plans offering different things. Some plans will pay a percentage of yearly vacination bills, while others do not. I know iams has a plan out, but it really depends on what you need. Good Luck with your search let us know what you end up choosing

I personally am not into all of the homeopathic remidies. While i compleatly agree that medications upon medications are never good for us (or our pets) i do belive that some need to be done. Thyroid medication is one of those things that needs to be regulated. I know I have seen many cases of animals (mostly cats, around 9 or 10) who have developed hypothyrodism and need to be on that medication. However, if there is a porblem with the medication, such as a bad side-effect, then you sould talk to your vet about possibly changing the medication. Personally, at the clinic I work at, we give ThyroTabs, which is a cheep medication, and i personally have never heard about anything like that happning. The Hills perscription diet, Z/D is usually good for alergy cases. It comes in 2 brands, low alergen, and ULTRA low alergin. If the low alergin dosen't work, try the ULTRA low alergin. for more info on the diet go to : [url]http://www.prescriptiondiets.com/hp.html[/url] and that might help Good Luck!!!! Zac

I was wondering if anyone was familler with the drug Rimadyl. It is a medication for arthritis and hurt joins, and will make a dog feal like a puppy again, under a week. I also know that everyone says that "Theroticly" the drug can lead to kidney and/or liver damage. I have been working as a vet tech for a bit over a year now, and i have seen about 5 or 6 cases where we belive that this was the case. While it seems that if it is perscribed for 10 days to 2 weeks there is no problem, lifelong medication of this looks bad in my eyes. I guess the real question i am trying to ask, is if anyone knows the accutal numbers of fatalties from this drug due to liver/kidney damage? thank you Zac

you can run your hand down her tail and feal the bones. If anything feals broken you will deffintly know. However, the problem is if something sliped a little (a sliped disk is always possible...) If she can still move it it is proubly ok, it just might hurt a lot. run your hand down her tail without putting much pressure, and see if she yelps in pain. If all else fails, wait a few days for it to get better, if it dosen't, go to the vet.

That is true. If the x-rays showed clean hips, than that should be fine. About the meds, i would deffintly not give that med anymore. I know that here is a great joint medication called Rymidal, or Rimadyl, something of that nature, im not sure of the spelling. Your doctor may perscribe this. From what i here side effects are possible theoritcal liver damage, and/or kidney damage. In the year i have been working at the vets office, i have seen around 2 or 3 of these. I know there is some new medication out that starts with a D, dromiear, something like that maybe... And i think that that might be good joint/pain medication. I hope this helps Good Luck with your puppy Zac