[Connie]

Oh my gosh...the trip to the vet! Thank goodness I went! She does have tonsillitis, (YorkieUSA yt'er Karen suggested that might be it...thank you Karen!), but the other part has me so totally freaked out and totally grossed out that I even toyed with the idea of not mentioning it on YT, but I'm going to because this place is for inofrmation and it could happen to another dog. Last night I found a sore on Maddie...kind of between the shoulder and neck. Actually my grandson found it and we thought at first it must be another tic. Now I think it is where she had the tic on her a couple of weeks ago and I could not find it after we pulled it off of her. When I got her to the vet, the sore was oozing...maybe from her bath...I may have irritated it while brushing her. The vet cut some of her hair away from the sore and then got an instrument and you will not believe what he pulled out of that sore! A maggot! He said a fly had layed an egg in a sore on her and that happens. He layed it on the table and it was wiggling. I told him I was going to throw up and he said, "Don't throw up!" Oh man oh man. I am so totally grossed out and itching like a crazy fool! I have hardly seen a fly here all summer, but at the dog park the other night there was some little black bugs biting and bothering us. I'm thinking that's when it happened. Now I have to keep putting hydrogine peroxide on that sore and then neosporin and watch very carefully for any other sores on her. I did a quick search on the net and it says most dogs with that are neglected dogs. Maddie is by no means neglected, but I somewhat feel guilty that this happened, though I don't know what I could have done to prevent it. Maybe if I'd have found that tic site and been able to keep it clean, but with all her hair, I searched and searched in vain. Anyway, I hope by putting this on YT, that everyone doesn't think of Maddie as Maggot Maddie. That's what my grandkids were calling her, but I'm going to put a stop to that. She's on Clavaox for 10 days for her tonsillitis and for that sore and I'm to give her half a baby aspirin per day. Oh me oh my! I told my vet if I'd ever dreamed something like this could happen, I would have never gotten a dog! I am so totally freaked! When I got home I called my mom and she told me that used to happen to the farm animals and when they got a cut or sore, they'd put tar on it to keep flies from laying eggs. I had never heard of anything so gross! Maddie's tonsils are really swollen so he's sure that's what caused all the honking noises and he said there's lots of foam around the tonsils so that's where the white foam came from. My poor little Maddie! He also expressed her anal glands and said if they are full, that can sometimes lead to tonsillitis...though there wasn't much in there. She's on the road to recovery and I hope none of you think less of Maddie and I after reading this gross story! I just wish I could quit itching! I get that way whenever hearing about tics or fleas. I think I need to open a bottle of wine!