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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thought I’d let everyone know that we started Sister Holly the Dolly on Apoquel, the brand new allergy medication, this morning. Holly’s allergies are not as bad as Marlene’s Maggie’s allergies, but they’re still bad, and got a lot worse last year. I think her age (14) has at least something to do with it. Anyway, the Vet wanted to try this rather than the Temeril-P, which does have a small amount of steroid in it, because Holly has to take the allergy meds from March of each year through about the middle of October, and then again for a couple weeks around Thanksgiving, when the cedar-elm trees shed their pollen. She said that’s a long time for her to be taking a steroid every day. So we’re going to try the Apoquel for a while and see if it works for Holly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It’s dosed by weight (Holly is always 38 pounds), so she gets 8 mg twice a day for two weeks, then we reduce to 8 mg once a day. We went to see the Vet this morning and I gave Holly her pill when we got home, then she gets another tonight, so we will watch and see what happens. And we will report in and let everyone know how it’s going.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sorry to everyone who has lost a hound recently, there have been way too many. Mama has been having a bad last couple of weeks and got behind on sending condolences, but we have shed a tear with each of you, and send our lub and lots of healing drool and soft snooter kissies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Anita Woodrum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><a href="mailto:awoodrum@clear.net">awoodrum@clear.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>