[Dailydrool] Snoopy at the vet

[Dale Rutz]

Well, our Snoopy boy is certainly high maintenence.  He gets a bath every week 
and gets his ears washed every week.  He wears sunscreen on his tummy.  He is 
VERY attractive to fleas (we suspect because he spends so much time laying in 
the grass) so we have to use advantage every 4-6 weeks.  We go 8-12 weeks with 
Cyrus but when we tried that with Snoopy he got fleas and then he got tape worms 
and we had to worm them both so Snoopy is every 4-6 weeks.  He gets itchy bumps 
on his belly sometimes and we use either aloe or else hyrdocorizone on that.

Well, he was worrying and itching at the base of his tail.  I checked last night 
and there was something under the skin and I couldn't help him so I took him to 
the vet this morning.  The vet said he had sort of bacterial infection but we'd 
caught it at the start.  He was able to clean it up/out without having to shave 
him (used a syringe and a team of 3 ... Snoopy didn't cry out but they wouldn't 
let me watch) and gave us a blue solution to apply 3 times a day.  The bottle 
says it is Chlorhexiderm.  Anybody ever heard of this stuff before?  I asked the 
vet why this occured and he said its the breed.  He said we are doing well with 
the baths and the ears but that bassets coat really holds water so if something 
bites him and it itches and he chews the saliva feeds the bacteria and never 
really drys out and festers and yuck.

They are doing a heartworm test too because they didn't want to bother him with 
a needle when we adopted him back in Jan but he was such a good boy today they 
decided to get it done.  No Heartworm drool please.

thanks,
Dale
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