Well, today Rudy and I are heading to NC State University's Vet School up in Raleigh. She is their favorite patient (and the favorite patient of our vet here in Hope Mills) and loves to take the 1 1/2 drive up there every so often.
She is fortunate enough to get to go to one of their specialty clinics - dermatology - where she is treated for her allergies, demodex, and everything else that ails her. We also get to pick up her very expensive special food today. We're getting a couple 30 lb. bags so we have enough to get us through until baby arrives.
It's been 6 months since she's been there and this time she'll be getting a refill on her shampoo, special ear cleaner, an exam, food and there was something else.... oh yeah, unflavored Heartgard. Should cost a mere $250. We just spent $120 on her last week at our vet trying to clear up her ear infection, paw infection and something else. Pet health insurance you ask? Yeah, I should definitely look into that one!
For a mutt, she sure came with lots of quirks and genetic baggage! But, we promised to love her forever despite these minor annoyances. And we do! Thank goodness Bradley is such a low maintenance dog! I don't think we could afford 2 of them.
On an unrelated note, the new collegiate dictionary now contains my favorite word, "ginormous".
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I love Rudy, she is sooo cute!
We found out from the vet at NC State that she is a star, sort of! She was on a high level dose of Ivermectin (heartgard) to combat her demodex and she succumbed to Ivermectin Toxicity (she was extremely drunk for a couple days). It normally impacts herding breeds, and she is Sharpei and Lab (neither one are herding dogs), so they did a genetic test and she is missing part of a gene. She made it into a study that the school did. Our little starlet! We couldn't be prouder!
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