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Our beagles are really doing their best to keep the vet's profits up these days.
In addition to Booker's sore back, Moosie's sore ACL and Popcorn's infected anal glands, now it appears that Booker has a red and infected ear - which we've started to treat by cleaning it with the usual alcohol solution we always have handy... we've been there before with them all so hopefully can get that under control ourselves (and it seems to have become less annoying to her since I cleaned it this morning) without another trip for Booker to the vet (although she is going there next week anyway for her back checkup).
THEN just now we noticed that the area around one of Popcorn's eyes is slightly swoollen and she appears to be losing the fur right above her eyelashes on that same eye. I'm wondering if this is tied to the dramatic scratching she has been doing around her snout lately... it almost looks like her gums are itchy and she is trying to scratch them with her front dewclaw. in any event we are going to the vet today to see how her infected anal glands have reacted to the antibiotics this past week so we'll add yet another ailment to the list to ask the vet about.
Dinner time these days is like a pharmacy - everyone is on at least one medication, and some are on several. Geez!
In addition to Booker's sore back, Moosie's sore ACL and Popcorn's infected anal glands, now it appears that Booker has a red and infected ear - which we've started to treat by cleaning it with the usual alcohol solution we always have handy... we've been there before with them all so hopefully can get that under control ourselves (and it seems to have become less annoying to her since I cleaned it this morning) without another trip for Booker to the vet (although she is going there next week anyway for her back checkup).
THEN just now we noticed that the area around one of Popcorn's eyes is slightly swoollen and she appears to be losing the fur right above her eyelashes on that same eye. I'm wondering if this is tied to the dramatic scratching she has been doing around her snout lately... it almost looks like her gums are itchy and she is trying to scratch them with her front dewclaw. in any event we are going to the vet today to see how her infected anal glands have reacted to the antibiotics this past week so we'll add yet another ailment to the list to ask the vet about.
Dinner time these days is like a pharmacy - everyone is on at least one medication, and some are on several. Geez!