As you are all aware, Snowy has been on long term treatment for snuffles, without much luck.
Anyhow, to cut to the point (as it's a long long history of various investigations, nasal swabs, antibiotic courses etc....), he's back on an antibiotic (beginning with T....can't for the life of me remember the name off hand, but I will have a look on the prescription tomorrow), which does seem to make a slight improvement to his symptoms...whereas the others made no difference at all.
This drug has been injected once every two days, and he's been on the course for some weeks now....having breaks of 5 days to give his gut a rest (hes on probiotics too).
His symptoms do return when off the drugs, so my vet has advised we continue with this antitbiotic for a longer term to really give it a chance at killing off the infection (it's worth a shot, as we're running out of ideas fast!).
Because Snowy has been travelling to the vets ever two days, which is both stressful for me (trying to work it into my work timetable) and him, the vet prepared needles, and showed us (myself and my mum) how to inject him at home.
I tried.....got extremely stressed out....Snowy got extremely stressed out....so gave it up as a bad job.
My mum did a jab successfully at the vets under his supervision. However, tonight, we tried to give him his shot. To be honest, we still don't know what happened, but the needle went in, injected and pulled out (Snowy seemed happy throughout...but he's sooo used to it now)...and then a small trickle of blood started to appear.
Of course, my mum and I panicked....
.....we got a bit of tissue, and held it over the trickle (which wasn't much, but enough to make a visable mark on his white fur on his back). It sooned stopped, and Snowy carried on munching on hay as normal.
If only my mum and I could carry on as normal. We are now even moreso pertrified of needles +Snowy. We feel very queezy, and very guilty in the fear we've hurt him, or done something wrong.
Both of us have resigned ourselves to the fact we can't bring ourselves to do it again. This leaves us a problem though. There is no other option for Snowy's treatment, but and injection twice a day. Even discussing other antibiotics...the nasal swab he had show's he needs the 'strong stuff' injected in order to be most successful (we have tried all other ways in fairness too....in water, direct into the mouth etc....).
I can't take him up to the vets every two days, because of my work and surgery hours. Plus it is stressful on him, and it's not helping him.
We're really at a stuck as to what to do next!
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Anyhow, to cut to the point (as it's a long long history of various investigations, nasal swabs, antibiotic courses etc....), he's back on an antibiotic (beginning with T....can't for the life of me remember the name off hand, but I will have a look on the prescription tomorrow), which does seem to make a slight improvement to his symptoms...whereas the others made no difference at all.
This drug has been injected once every two days, and he's been on the course for some weeks now....having breaks of 5 days to give his gut a rest (hes on probiotics too).
His symptoms do return when off the drugs, so my vet has advised we continue with this antitbiotic for a longer term to really give it a chance at killing off the infection (it's worth a shot, as we're running out of ideas fast!).
Because Snowy has been travelling to the vets ever two days, which is both stressful for me (trying to work it into my work timetable) and him, the vet prepared needles, and showed us (myself and my mum) how to inject him at home.
I tried.....got extremely stressed out....Snowy got extremely stressed out....so gave it up as a bad job.
My mum did a jab successfully at the vets under his supervision. However, tonight, we tried to give him his shot. To be honest, we still don't know what happened, but the needle went in, injected and pulled out (Snowy seemed happy throughout...but he's sooo used to it now)...and then a small trickle of blood started to appear.
Of course, my mum and I panicked....
.....we got a bit of tissue, and held it over the trickle (which wasn't much, but enough to make a visable mark on his white fur on his back). It sooned stopped, and Snowy carried on munching on hay as normal.
If only my mum and I could carry on as normal. We are now even moreso pertrified of needles +Snowy. We feel very queezy, and very guilty in the fear we've hurt him, or done something wrong.
Both of us have resigned ourselves to the fact we can't bring ourselves to do it again. This leaves us a problem though. There is no other option for Snowy's treatment, but and injection twice a day. Even discussing other antibiotics...the nasal swab he had show's he needs the 'strong stuff' injected in order to be most successful (we have tried all other ways in fairness too....in water, direct into the mouth etc....).
I can't take him up to the vets every two days, because of my work and surgery hours. Plus it is stressful on him, and it's not helping him.
We're really at a stuck as to what to do next!
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