Samssimonsays: Blazing Acres journal

[Baymule]

Aww.... poor little fella, he just missed his friends!

 

[samssimonsays]

Aww.... poor little fella, he just missed his friends!

He did! Roscoe did fine alone while rebel just didn't. I put tilda in the stall next to him and he perked up! He's doing great now. He never got loose stool or anything. All is even better now that all are in the barn lol.

 

[samssimonsays]

Since the 10 days on antibiotics(she finished them on Saturday), a sulfate type, Sadie has stopped itching. Since our last visit to the vet, however, we have picked up FLEAS. UGH. We are working on completely eliminating them but I believe they are gone now. no more even mild scratching or biting. PHEW! Vacuuming and spraying a natural flea killer again tonight after work should take care of the last of them.

 

[Hens and Roos]

ugh!! sorry to hear this....

 

[samssimonsays]

Well, Lead poisoning test results were also negative! Back to square one....

We had her on a sulfate antibiotic for 10 days that had stopped all of her itching and it ended on Saturday morning. As of monday night she had started to scratch again some and it got worse by morning. This leads us to believe it IS a systematic infection that they had so we picked up a 2 week supply of antibiotics to continue on. IF it was staph this will have gotten it. If it is Toxoplasmosis, it should get it. At the moment, Stella's tremors seem to be triggered only when she ate the Noble goat feed so we have switched them over to a different feed and finished the last of the Noble goat. It was an easy transition for the goats as they already had been getting the other feed mixed in for a "treat" since my buckling would only eat the new feed (bought to make him interested in food again).

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Wow.... what a long path for all of you. Hoping the antibiotics take care of whatever it is!

 

[samssimonsays]

Wow.... what a long path for all of you. Hoping the antibiotics take care of whatever it is!

Thank you! Us too!

 

[NH homesteader]

Sheesh I hope the antibiotics do the job. So is there any way of confirming what it is out of the things that remain? Hope this all is over for you soon... It's just too much to deal with

 

[samssimonsays]

I was told that if it was staph, she had already been on the antibiotics for several days before we thought of it and it would have already started treating it. (Staph DOES in fact cause seizures) If it was Toxoplasmosis then there is not really any good tests and this antibiotic is used to treat it already so may as well just treat it (two vets we had seen thought of it and both said treat due to lack of a decent test) Toxoplasmosis is caused by a common parasite and can migrate to the brain causing seizures. It also causes dermatitis as a major symptom which they both had horribly along with these scabs that kept coming back in the exact same place on their hips. Just the two having major seizures. An underlying staph infection can hide from the CBC's that were run and also can go without a temp if it is in the skin. They will also heal and come back due to not being treated. Both dogs had bug bite looking rashes on their bellies and were itchy. SO itchy. Upon looking over google images (I know this is not reliable in all cases) I found many of the staph infection photos from dogs showing identical bug bite looking rashes in the same area and several scabs that looked very close to the ones Sadie and Rumely had. They will not have access to cat poop anymore either way.

 

[Hens and Roos]

hope the antibiotics work!