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doxydave
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Member # 6366

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Hi all,
I live in an endemic area of the UK and the dogs have been bitten many more times than I have this year. The dogs seem OK apart from one has an uncontrollable head shake sometimes. Do you think I should get them tested for Lyme anyway? Just in one day during the summer, we pulled off 80 ticks from the two of them!

Dave.

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rdcallen
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Member # 3987

posted

Hi,
Personally I would have the dogs checked or maybe your vet would just give them antibiotic without the test. The head shaking thing sounds like it could be a lyme symptom.

If I knew several years ago what I know now I wouldn't have lost my precious Cocoa to this disease.

Well, for what it's worth, there's my opinion.
Good luck,
Cathy

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docdave130
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the vets do the test in the office like a pregnancy test and get the results immediately.
the dogs respond almost immediately to doxy for 30 days.
i had 2 go totally lame and 2 days of doxy and they were 100% better.
doxy is cheap don't loose your dogs over $10 worth of medicine.
i would give it prophylaxtically with that many ticks

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KBear
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Hi and welcome to lymenet!

I would definitely get them tested. My dog had lyme and responded well to amoxy. You might want to go ahead and treat them without a positive test, but a lot of vets won't do that.

I also use frontline top spot on mine. It seems to work pretty well. I slipped up and let it lapse and that's when he got infected. You might want to think about that especially since the ticks are so bad by you.

Hope you're poochy gets better!

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