Yes, she unbelievably got Lymes when she was on Frontline. She's never been off it in her life and I've always been very careful about not bathing for a few days before or after putting the liquid on. I want to find a natural alternative for it because I really don't like to put toxic chemicals on her. You're not supposed to put anything on your skin that you can't eat. Anything you put on your skin enters the bloodstream.
She was on doxycycline for months and then I still had to wait months after that for a final blood test to determine if she was disease-free or not. My vet said that she had the highest amount of antibodies than any other dog she'd ever seen with Lymes. We suspect that she had struggled with the disease for a few years without us knowing. She had had a limp a few years earlier and my first vet, who is a complete idiot, said it was arthritis. I could hardly believe that such a young Yorkie, as she was at the time, would develop arthritis....well, as it turned out, it wasn't. You'd think vets in PA where the ticks are so bad would have more people have their dogs tested for Lymes when limping springs up, especially if they're very young dogs. Learning from my poor little Mollie, I'll always have all of my animals tested for it on a regular basis. |