Re: Salmon Disease

On 2007-11-06 16:53:44 -0800, "buglady" <buglady99@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:


"C J Campbell" <christophercampbell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The other problem with our Scottie is salmon disease. We have a salmon
spawning stream that runs through the middle of our yard in the Puget
Sound area.
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They say just let her eat salmon and if she
gets salmon disease then get her treated with antibiotics and after
that she will be immune to it. Is that true and is it a reasonable
strategy?
Did you Google?
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/ClientED/salmon.asp
http://www.capcvet.org/?p=Guidelines_Trematode&h=0&s=0

I'm not sure about the issue of immunity. What other dog owners are telling
you is what I have heard over and over. That keeping a dog who eats stuff
from getting salmon poisoning is just about impossible. Don't know what I'd
do. Certainly it depends on how healthy your dog is to begin with. Any dog
with continually itchy skin problems and GI tract problems may have a hard
time overcoming this disease as their immunity is already down the toilet.

With Scotties the itchy skin seems to be allergy related. As long as she does not eat dog food that contains corn or out of plastic or metal dishes she seems to be fine most of the time.

Probably a moot point for a few days anyway. After the fight with the raccoon this morning her vet restricted her to being taken out on a leash only for five days. She is on antibiotics for several nasty bites on her face.

As for the salmon, they seem to be holding back. We have not had enough rain to flood the creek deep enough for them. Consequently seals and other predators have been having a field day out there. We should have rain by Thursday, though. Our eagles appear to have given up in disgust, but we have an enormous number of other birds gathering out there. It is beginning to look like a scene from an Alfred Hitch*** movie.

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