so.....we took the dogs to the vet....
they had not been checked since malia had giardia and bubba had had his eyes fixed...
we also wanted them to have a check up to see how they were doing.
of course, no surprise....and no we did not do blood work..nor did we feel it necessary...
the dogs are in magnificent shape...neither one needs a dental....last time, bubba did....
which is when i told my vet whom i really like that we were feeding raw...and he did not scold or preach or anything and praised us for caring so much about our dogs that we would take such good care of them....blah blah.
on the other hand.....back in september when we first got bubba, his ears were so yeasty that the doc could not see his ear canal...on his right ear....
we would use the flush every other day and clean out the brown gunk....keep in mind he had been on pedigree and was a rescue...
now, he's been on raw for four months....he has a very very narrow ear canal on the right side and there is wax between the blocking the ear drum and probably has been since we got him.
my feeling is that the raw will take care of it because in the beginning, the vet couldn't even see down the ear canal...and now he can at least see the little wax blockage...
the only way to get rid of it is anaesthesia and several flushes and the con is that the eardrum could rupture if we went that route.
the other way is to try the oily flushes to try and break it up at home...
my thinking is that raw will eventually take care of the problem...
i know there are some very knowledgeable people here....
i don't want him to go through yet another surgery...he's already has his balls removed, his eyelids reshaped, his eyelids turned outward, his nostrils widened....
he's been through so much as a rescue....we saved 85% of his eyesight and i think the worst that can happen now is he won't hear so well out of his right ear....
is there a prayer in hell that i could be right? that the diet will eventually clear out the rest of the wax in his ear?
the other ear is clear now.
PLUS...second part..
how can i now take my dog to a vet who doesn't understand the relationship between what these guys are eating and their health?
because when i said i wanted to give it time for the diet to do its job, he didn't 'get' it.
they had not been checked since malia had giardia and bubba had had his eyes fixed...
we also wanted them to have a check up to see how they were doing.
of course, no surprise....and no we did not do blood work..nor did we feel it necessary...
the dogs are in magnificent shape...neither one needs a dental....last time, bubba did....
which is when i told my vet whom i really like that we were feeding raw...and he did not scold or preach or anything and praised us for caring so much about our dogs that we would take such good care of them....blah blah.
on the other hand.....back in september when we first got bubba, his ears were so yeasty that the doc could not see his ear canal...on his right ear....
we would use the flush every other day and clean out the brown gunk....keep in mind he had been on pedigree and was a rescue...
now, he's been on raw for four months....he has a very very narrow ear canal on the right side and there is wax between the blocking the ear drum and probably has been since we got him.
my feeling is that the raw will take care of it because in the beginning, the vet couldn't even see down the ear canal...and now he can at least see the little wax blockage...
the only way to get rid of it is anaesthesia and several flushes and the con is that the eardrum could rupture if we went that route.
the other way is to try the oily flushes to try and break it up at home...
my thinking is that raw will eventually take care of the problem...
i know there are some very knowledgeable people here....
i don't want him to go through yet another surgery...he's already has his balls removed, his eyelids reshaped, his eyelids turned outward, his nostrils widened....
he's been through so much as a rescue....we saved 85% of his eyesight and i think the worst that can happen now is he won't hear so well out of his right ear....
is there a prayer in hell that i could be right? that the diet will eventually clear out the rest of the wax in his ear?
the other ear is clear now.
PLUS...second part..
how can i now take my dog to a vet who doesn't understand the relationship between what these guys are eating and their health?
because when i said i wanted to give it time for the diet to do its job, he didn't 'get' it.