Well, the LarDog hasn't been feeling too well over the last few weeks. He had really bad diarrhea and had actually been going to the bathroom in the apartment (which he never does). Yesterday I decided it was past time to go to the vet.
So after going through several nightmare scenarios, the doc decides to go check the test. He comes back and says, oh, it's hookworm, that's an easy fix. Two antibiotics and some sort of powdered medicine that goes over his food (I'm assuming it's an anti-hookworm agent) and he should be right as rain within a week or so.
Being the odd dog that he is, he loves his medicine. It was time to give him Heartgard as well, so I started with that. Chomp. Stuck each antibiotic into a Bil-Jac liver treat. Chomp and chomp. I coated his food with the powder and it said that dry food might need to be moistened. Well, I poured a bit too much water in, but I figured, what the heck. Well, guess what...picky eater that he is, he ate the whole bowl. I can only remember two other times he's eaten a whole bowl at one time.
He's still off a little bit this morning, but here's hoping he's on the mend. I think the long, romping walk at the beach yesterday helped too.
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Poor Larry, Hope he is well soon. What I did for dog pill administration was to get braunschweiger at the deli and roll the pill in the meat. The dog would just gulp them down. It smell rather strong, and he did not have time to analyze where a pill was within.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I could see that. He'd probably run through a brick wall for a sausage like that.
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