Back from the vet, and more confused than ever (long)

mystic_J · June 2009

*I would update my blog and not clog GP with this, but stepmonster now reads my blog, so that won't work*

After waiting an hour to see my vet, my vet's associate comes in instead. He takes a look at my dogs and tells me that neither of my dogs have staph. I refer him to my vet's previous notes and confirmation of said staph.

He listens (or pretends to listen) to the whole story about stepmonster's dog and my friend's dog. He then tells me that unless my dogs have giant puss pockets, then they do not have staph anymore.

They may have had it, but he thinks the antibiotics should have made them non-infectious. He thinks because my friend's dog had another skin condition beforehand, he could have caught the staph from my dogs, but without an open sore (this has to qualify as TMI!), there would be no way for the staph to enter my dog's bodies.

::sits here and wonders, is this making sense to anyone right now??::

Sigh. So, here we are: the vet gave each pug a steroid shot and wants me to call on Friday to report the state of their skin. He thinks they just have allergies and everything should be cleared up by then. If not, we are back at square 1.

On another note, my dad said he was sorry and offered to pay my vet bills. Sweet. Cool

Mrs. BZ · June 2009

Sounds like things are well with your father, which is awesome. But, about your dogs, sorry to hear that they really don't know what it is. My furbaby, may he rest in peace, had skin allergies every spring. Poor dude, he suffered for like a month and all they could give him was antibiotics. The only skin doctor for canines in AK couldn't figure out what "exactly" was causing it.

mystic_J · June 2009

Mrs. BZ:
Sounds like things are well with your father, which is awesome. But, about your dogs, sorry to hear that they really don't know what it is. My furbaby, may he rest in peace, had skin allergies every spring. Poor dude, he suffered for like a month and all they could give him was antibiotics. The only skin doctor for canines in AK couldn't figure out what "exactly" was causing it.

I know Bandit has had a skin infection before, but his symptoms this time were very different than what he had last fall.

I feel so bad for furbabies like your sweet angel and mine! I swear vets just think, when in doubt, slap on some antibiotics and send them on their way! Not cool!

mystic_J · June 2009

Wordsmith226:

1) I am sad that I cannot make fun of your stepmonster on your blog comments. Devasted. Me too. I can't believe she found me.

2) So sorry about the pugs. I will keep your little guys in my thoughts, hoping for a speedy recovery from whateverthefvckdisease they have. I wish you had better answers though. Thanks dear- you are sweet!

3) Yay to your Dad being an understanding sweetie. Good guy.

Yeah he is a good guy. Too bad he has to apologize for his wife and her dog and their ignorance.

aubie96 · June 2009

Wordsmith226:

1) I am sad that I cannot make fun of your stepmonster on your blog comments. Devasted.

2) So sorry about the pugs. I will keep your little guys in my thoughts, hoping for a speedy recovery from whateverthefvckdisease they have. I wish you had better answers though.

3) Yay to your Dad being an understanding sweetie. Good guy.

I'm with Wordsmith

Mrs. BZ · June 2009

I feel the same way about them just wanting to pop pills in them and not even knowing exactly what it is. My DH expressed his frustrations to the vet when she tried to pop pills into him.

DoubleFlyaway · June 2009

I'm really sorry about your furbabies. Ours have bad allergies that we're trying to figure out how to deal with, so I know how scary/frustrating it can be.

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