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<\/a>\r\nArrow wants a treat<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nShe has ehrlichia, which is a tick-borne disease.\r\nSupposedly if you catch it in the acute stage, which it appears we did,\r\nantibiotics will cure it.\r\n
\r\nYour dogs don’t want ehrlichia, so check them for ticks.\r\n
\r\nIt came on very quickly.\r\n\r\n\r\nOne morning Arrow was running around with the other two dogs as I collected water samples.\r\nAt the next stop she stood next to me until I let her back in the car.\r\nShe wouldn’t even get out at the third stop.\r\n
\r\nAt the Hahira veterinarian the next morning, they took blood samples twice,\r\nbecause they wanted to be sure what they saw.\r\nAlmost no white blood cells.\r\nLife-threatening, they said.\r\n
\r\nSo off to the referral vet in Tallahassee.\r\nArrow hardly moved the whole way there, just lay with her head on the armrest.\r\n
\r\nAfter a week in Tallahassee, with her on three antibiotics and steroids, I brought her home.\r\nShe sat up half the trip back, looking around.\r\nShe keeps improving.\r\n
\r\nJust now she walked almost a mile and a half,\r\ntrotting some of the way.\r\nShe would have been happy to trot more, but the leash-holder wasn’t.\r\n
\r\nShe’s completely herself, talking (I have to go out; a different dog wants to go out; I just want attention) and opinionated (she does not like the leash, and the other day she got loose and ran).\r\n
\r\nNext week we will get more tests and see if she’s well enough to let out without the leash.\r\n
\r\nYes, we changed the tick prevention.\r\n
\r\nMoral: carefully check your dogs for ticks every day.\r\n
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