Category: Medical

This is Tabs’ third medicated bath for her balding issue. I’m using PyoHex shampoo. Seven minutes of soaking. It’s a hot day, so she dries fast. That red circular spot has completely healed. The hair is slowly but surely growing back in the bald spots too. She’s got one vial of Advocate spot-on, and will…

All is looking good for Ginger. It’s a rainy morning. That is Smurfy, can you see Kai at the far end? She is guarding her territory from the lookout. Minnie and Lynx. This rattan chair belongs to Minnie. That’s Robin. He always greets me whenever I come out so it’s actually difficult to take his…

Ginger is no longer isolating himself up on the platforms. He’s eating breakfast with everyone else, and also eating wet food. Today, he finishes the Meloxicam (anti-inflammatory) and there are another four more days of the Clavumox (antibiotics). I am thinking of reducing the Tramadol already. I think he’s okay.

Today is Day 3 of Ginger’s paw wound since treatment started. He is no longer limping at all, but he still prefers to stay up high. And he only wants kibble for breakfast. For dinner, he eats raw food like everyone else. Way up high!

Yesterday, Ginger preferred to stay on the platforms. I did not put the e-collar on him all the time, though. He did not lick his wound at all, so I only use it for about an hour after I cleaned the wound and applied the Fucidin to prevent him from licking off the cream. He…

Ginger did not come for breakfast this morning. He had gone up to the highest platform (the lookout) and was sitting alone. Something was definitely not right. After feeding everyone, we managed to get him to come down but he was clearly limping. There was a small black spot (it felt like a scab) on…

I gave Tabs her second medicated bath today, with Pyohex. The vet says to let the shampoo stay on for 7 minutes (the bottle actually says 10 minutes), but the best we can do is 6 minutes before Tabs starts to get very restless. I do understand, 7 minutes is a very long time to…

It’s been four days now since the culture was done to determine if Tabs’ red spot is fungal. Well, it isn’t. The vet confirmed that today. And that red spot is so much better already. I’ve been applying the Triderm cream three times a day. This is the culture. If it’s fungal, the colour would…

So I took Tabs to the vet’s this afternoon to get her checked. The red round spot looked rather suspicious, so the vet did a scraping to check under the microscope.  Only 1 fungal spore was found. But I had also made the mistake of bathing Tabs this morning so I might have cleaned off…