{"id":19457,"date":"2014-04-20T15:23:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19457"},"modified":"2014-04-22T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T17:10:57","slug":"my-lil-gal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19457","title":{"rendered":"My lil gal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I learned last week that Stella and all her siblings have demodex, which is a mite that dogs get, but if their immune system isn’t developed enough, it results in mange – noncontagious mange<\/em>. It is supposed to manifest itself as hair loss around the eyes, but Stella began losing it on her head – much like me. Imagine my surprise. <\/p>\n

So she started on medication yesterday afternoon – Ivomec – but by night time she was having a full on toxic reaction that includes eyes rolling back in her head. <\/p>\n

I freaked!<\/p>\n

It turns out that herding breeds have a violent reaction to the medication and Stella was the only one of the puppies reacting – meaning she had a different dad than the others. I love this little girl. It’s crazy how much I love this puppy. So she and I sat on the floor together and I stroked her and stroked her until she at least tried to nibble on me and then we tried to sleep last night – her moaning and me keeping one eye open. <\/p>\n

This morning at 4am Stella woke, puked, peed and then wagged her tail. We made it through the crisis. She was resurrected on Easter Sunday. <\/p>\n

Lord Today!<\/p>\n

I learned one thing – her dad was a herding dog<\/a> – possibly Australian Shepherd or Border Collie – because only herding breeds react this way to Ivomec. We will now have to seek different treatment – chemical baths, which can also be toxic so they require her to go in for a day’s visit to the vet. [read: cash]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I learned last week that Stella and all her siblings have demodex, which is a mite that dogs get, but if their immune system isn’t developed enough, it results in mange – noncontagious mange. It is supposed to manifest itself as hair loss around the eyes, but Stella began losing it on her head – much like me. Imagine my surprise. So she started on medication yesterday afternoon – Ivomec – but by night time… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-53P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19474,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19457\/revisions\/19474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}