thank you for posting this info and thank you Gail for massaging me about it, we live on a lake and Lola loves to swim in it, our lake is deep and clean (we have it tested) but as you know just about anything can happen. I try to keep her from drinking the water and as soon as we finish swimming she gets rinsed off. But I am going to ask my vet if she has seen dogs with it and if it is prevalent in our area which is filled with small lakes. I will also keep a keen eye out for symptoms
on a side note there are some of the most beautiful lakes in the country in Northern MI a few hours from us they are blue and like crystal, however there are often times when they have some type of bacteria that is awful, friends when up for a camping weekend and trailed their pontoon they anchored off the beach and swam in, by the end of the day any part of their body that had gotten wet was covered with red blistering sores that took over a week of misery to get rid of it. One of my doctors has a summer house up there and he said it depends on the wind and the geese, he has an outside shower and insists all his guests shower off after getting out the water and then they don't get swimmers itch, can you imagine living on a lake that has this problem off and on, and these are some of the most expensive lakes to live on in this country. So far cross my fingers I have not heard of this in lower MI.
Thanks again for the heads up |