Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Try now for Baytril

all have different oddities Butter: raw cauliflower-he loves it for some reason Sugar: she is 9 lbs of wild action if any kind of pork is in the house Hannibal: while he will eat anything he seems to have a special sniffer for any kind of flavored meds. He once managed to get into the pantry to find the Bassets bottle of beef flavored Baytril for Dogs of which he gobbled up all 20. Zero effect on him. Fred: We once dumped the uneaten bird seed from an outdoor feeder directly on the ground and he at all of it. For 2 days when we went on 'poop patrol' in the yard we found clumps of bird-seed-poop

In the 2 months we've had Boomer(5 month old GSD/Lab mix, currently 30 pounds)she's been on 3 courses of Cephalexin (10 days,7 and 7 with about 2 weeks in between each) for a vaginal infection. The first two times her discomfort and the discharge seemed to go away for about a week and a half before coming back but this round (only 2 days left) she is still in obvious discomfort (licking, itching, frequent urination). The vet previously mentioned that the best treatment is contraindicated in dogs under 6 months. From what I can glean from google, Baytril can cause lesions in cartilage but I can't find anything clearly stating the likelihood. Basically my question is has anyone used Baytril on dogs that are still growing and were there negative effects? Also does anyone have any other ideas about what we can do to help her get over this? And yes, of course, I'm going to be talking more to the vet about options if this round of antibiotics doesn't clear it up.

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