Puck has got some kind of a sore behind his ear. It looks sort-of like a cross between a blister and a hive. It feels sorta like a blister to me, but it's red and looks like a swollen area of skin.
I am leary of taking him to the vet. I hate vets and doctors, they are all the same. "Gee, maybe it's this, pay us $30 for this visit and $30 for this medicine and come back in a week." "Oh, I guess that wasn't it, pay us $30 more for this visit and $30 for this new medicine and come back in a week."
I spent over $250 at my vet a few months back because Puck had an excess of protozoa in his intestines that was causing him to have diaherrea. (I think they were protozoa, they are the things that termites have in them that allow them to digest wood. Don't ask me why I know that. It was on the Discovery channel and I recognized the word.) We went through 3 "theories" and 3 different kinds of medicine INCLUDING ANTIBIOTICS (which I HATE taking or giving to anyone unless NECESSARY) before he hit on the correct diagnosis.
So, well, screw him, unless it gets worse or seems like an emergency.
I have some "hot spot" treatment stuff, but I'm wondering if this sounds familiar to anyone. I can't quite seem to understand from the descriptions what a "hot spot" is.
Whatever the thing is, it doesn't seem to be bothering him, really. He objects when I try to look at it, but if I scratch behind his ears right on it, he doen't care. It's about the size of the tip of my pinky finger.
I am leary of taking him to the vet. I hate vets and doctors, they are all the same. "Gee, maybe it's this, pay us $30 for this visit and $30 for this medicine and come back in a week." "Oh, I guess that wasn't it, pay us $30 more for this visit and $30 for this new medicine and come back in a week."
I spent over $250 at my vet a few months back because Puck had an excess of protozoa in his intestines that was causing him to have diaherrea. (I think they were protozoa, they are the things that termites have in them that allow them to digest wood. Don't ask me why I know that. It was on the Discovery channel and I recognized the word.) We went through 3 "theories" and 3 different kinds of medicine INCLUDING ANTIBIOTICS (which I HATE taking or giving to anyone unless NECESSARY) before he hit on the correct diagnosis.
So, well, screw him, unless it gets worse or seems like an emergency.
I have some "hot spot" treatment stuff, but I'm wondering if this sounds familiar to anyone. I can't quite seem to understand from the descriptions what a "hot spot" is.
Whatever the thing is, it doesn't seem to be bothering him, really. He objects when I try to look at it, but if I scratch behind his ears right on it, he doen't care. It's about the size of the tip of my pinky finger.