Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

I’m UPSET!!

Back in January we pulled a tick off Brutus.

When we went to the vet back in January—-Animal Haven (cause so many folks on my local HS loop raved about them and how they were all Christians, and how wonderful they were with their dogs) I mentioned that I had pulled a tick off of Brutus.

They sold me Advantix so that ticks / mosquitoes / fleas would stay off him. No mention that perhaps we should test for Lyme.

We went back to them in Feb but at that visit we saw the other vet; who seemed to be more interested in SELLING us goods—ear cleaner supplies, Advantix, Heartworm, canine cough vacine — AND she had zero bed-side manner. Between a HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL FEE for disposing the poop in the toilet!!!, and the poor bedside manner with us and Brutus, it was easy to switch. MilitaryKid who likes everyone, even remarked about how he did not care for her at ALL, and so I decided to go to our local town vet.

I took Brutus in today for his last Parvo shot. Brutus weighed in at 67#, and is now 4months and 11 days!!! I also mentioned to the vet that Brutus is limping all the time on walks.

The vet was so gentle as he examined and felt Brutus’ legs, lymph nodes, and said that we should test him for Lyme, and, —–has he ever had a tick?

Yes

He took a blood sample, quick as could be, the test was “VERY POSITIVE.”

I’m SICK. MAD. ANGRY. UPSET. The ol; if only Animal Haven had been more interested in treating and thinking about whether this puppy could have gotten Lyme from that tick instead of SELLING us stuff.

Oh, and our local town vet prices are far lower than Animal Haven’s AND they don’t charge a Hazardous poop Disposal Fee. What a RIP-OFF!!!

So Brutus is on Amoxicillin for 30 days, 2x a day, a huge white pill.

We are off to the store to pick up Liverwurst to hide his pill in it.

Please tell me I’m over-reacting.

Oh, and this morning MilitaryKid broke one of Brutus’ IAMS puppy biscuits in half. Thankfully he looked at it before he gave it to Brutus. There inside was a metal shaving. IAMS is sending vouchers for both a free 40# bag of food, and puppy biscuits, and lots of other coupons. They want the sample. Brutus’ vet wants a copy of the report as to where it came from and what it is. I’m not sending it off until I can take a photo of it. My camera is in Pat’s car, I think.

But on a good note I walked about one mile this morning I finally gave in and took a pain pill this afternoon but my knee is getting much better. Brutus won’t be able to walk with me for a few days but hopefully he will be walking, long walks, with me next week.