Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease that affects both dogs and people. You cannot get Lyme disease directly from your dog. But you can get Lyme disease from the same ticks that transmit the disease to your dog. This fact makes Lyme disease an important disease for both of you. What is Lyme Disease? Lyme disease is passed to you…
What does a positive test result mean and what should you do? In certain parts of the United States, this is a scenario that happens relatively often. Your dog has a routine test performed for Lyme disease, which comes back positive. But your dog is not ill and is showing absolutely no sign of disease. In my part of the…
A common medical dilemma is a positive Lyme test in a healthy dog. What if a sick dog tests negative, though? What if your dog has all the symptoms of suffering from active Lyme disease but the test does not reflect that? Gus’ story Every dog can pick up an unwelcome deer tick here and there. Gus caught a number…