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I want to thank everyone for the tips. Today's two medications were dramatic but a little less so than yesterday. Eight more days to go. We'll keep at it with love, patience, and Kongs full of peanut butter.

Dimity is a 5 3/4 month old female dobe with an ear infection (both ears). To complicate things, she recently had surgery (partial toe amputation), from which she is recovering. The paw is doing very well, but the vet wants us to apply aggressive ear therapy for the ear infection. The ear...

Bubbatd, Thanks for the response. I doubt that a sock would work. Currently, she is bandaged with Co-flex, which has withstood most of her licking and gnawing. But she has also gnawed the fir immediately above the bandage (lower leg), creating an abrasion that she continues to nibble at...

Dimity is doing ok. She has been recuperating for 6 days. Her spirits are good and the medicine seems to work well, now that we have figured out the optimal dosage for the tranquilizer. However, the eCollar does not prevent her from licking/biting the bandage on her paw, no matter how often we...

addendum: When I refer to an "eCollar", I mean one of those plastic cones that dogs wear around their necks, shrouding their head and mouth--not the shock-electronic variety.

Puppy toe amputation (post-surgery day 1) Dimity came home with four medications: an antibiotic, an anti-inflammatory, a pain killer, and a sedative. She also came home with an eCollar, as she went right for the bandages when the anesthetic wore off. Even with the medications, she is a little...

:confused: Hello, Our 5-month old puppy, Dimity, must have a partial-toe amputation tomorrow (Monday). The orthopedic vet believes that the digit is the source of her lameness (left rear leg). Does anyone have any ideas about how make her crate safe for her post-surgery convalescence...

More on Dimity's condition On 11-17-05 Dimity was examined by an orthopedic vet: Two sets of Xrays revealed normal hips and knees. However, the orthopod found chronic luxation affecting the 3rd digit of the left hind leg; an Xray of the area showed an abnormal distal interphalangeal joint. Even...

Update on Dimity Again, thanks to everyone for replying. We are taking Dimity to an orthopod on Nov. 17. She continues to limp intermittently; the anti-inflammatory drug has had no apparent effect. As she grows, we note that the limping leg (left rear) is thinner than the right; her left paw is...

I would like to thank everyone for their comments. There's a lot to think about. For days now I have been searching online for something definitive, but Dimity's symptoms and age do not match any Internet entries I have found (e.g., panosteitis is described as occuring to...

Initially,I posted this in the Introduction forum. I was told to post it in the Health forum: Hello, everyone. Six weeks ago, my wife and I brought Dimity, an 8-week old Doberman female, into into our home: She is sweet, and we love her. When we purchased her, however, we did not know what...

Hello, everyone. Six weeks ago, my wife and I brought Dimity, an 8-week old Doberman female, into into our home: She is sweet, and we love her. When we purchased her, however, we did not know what we were doing, and transacted business with a less-than-ethical breeder. Two days later, a...