Chico and Riley came home from their speuters - hungry! Chico was very vocal in telling us his displeasure at his neuter - he was sore! A half can of pedigree went a long way in appeasing the little guy. Riley was unfazed eventhough her dew claws were removed as well as her spay. She ate the other half can of pedigree and slept the evening under Dave’s chair. Chico slept on his favorite chair - a padded one all curled up in a little ball with little whimpers sounding every little bit - he sure is a suckee! This morning both are as happy as can be and back to normal. Riley’s family has already arrived and she has gone home to meet her own little girl who wants a bed companion and a buddy to play with. Riley will be all that and much more - Good luck girl!

  All four of my demodex kids are on ivomec again and this time we really see a difference. Plato has a shiny, thick coat - his eyes are bright and happy and he is very playful. He is running outside with the other dogs!!

Sampson has hair on his ears!! His eyes are bright and he is playing with the two chessie mix puppies. He has started going out the front door into the main yard and he is looking so much better.
 

 Little Jaime the dwarf pup has bright eyes again, a thicker shiny coat and is not greasy feeling. She was one of the worse affected - her immune system is really bad - her dwarfism is an indicator of that. Her mom is a full size pittie/rottie and weighs about 70 pounds. Her grandmother Honeybear, a rottie/sharpei - weighed 110 pounds. Jaime barely weighs 32 pounds, is short legged and quite homely. She was very friendly with the family who came to see Grey Ghost and Chico - she really liked the 7 year old boy!

And the last is poor Moses - the wrinkly boy who was very ill. He was bald with sores clustered on his head, his eyes were infected and he wanted nothing to do with people or dogs. Now he has shiny hair sprouting on his body, his eyes are opened, his head is healed and he is jumping all over me! He is a happy boy!

 He is the smallest of the demodex boys at 60 pounds. Sampson is 100 pounds while Plato is 80 pounds. They have been on ivomec off and on since their first flare up at four months of age. It cleared the demodex but never fully eradicated it. This time they look good! I wonder if it is because their immune systems are finally kicking in. It has been a long road for these guys but I finally see light at the end of a long and very expensive  tunnel.  They will be fine now ready to lead a normal life as normal dogs.

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