Day 4, yesterday, we still did 2 shampoos - the Chlorhexiderm in the morning and the Benzoyl Peroxide in the evening - but today I noticed his skin was looking super dry, so I just went with the Chlorhexiderm shampoo this evening. Yesterday, the bases of both ears were swollen, so I went ahead and started him on some antibiotics. I had three 500 mg amoxicillin left over from something, so I gave him one yesterday, one this morning, and another this evening. I also made him a vet appointment for tomorrow morning at 9am to get more - it seems to be working.
Although I still had to bribe him to drink today because of his fever, he actually played with Bella this afternoon, which was really sweet. I can see Luc is going to be a handful, though. I think he missed out on a lot of his early socialization when it comes to play, so he's got some making up to do. Bella straightened him out with her polar bear bark a few times, but I found myself cringing a bit, realizing when he's not feeling miserable and napping 98% of the day, we might be in for a strong-willed, ill-mannered puppy once he shakes this fever. It's all good though. If anyone can handle it, we've got it under control.
We're still at about 0.6ml of ivermectin 1% once a day, so I'm hoping with all the shampoos and stuff, the vet isn't going to want to do a skin scrape tomorrow. I'll keep you posted. For now, here's a sweet picture of Luc today - I had the rug spread across two sawhorses, which my 2-year-old claimed for himself. I threw the rug onto the hammock (for lack of a better place), and Luc came over to investigate.
Said "investigation" turned into a nice, hour-long nap in the sun.
I'll update tomorrow after the vet - fingers crossed!
Cherstin, out.
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