[tipoketpu]

Thanks to your generous contributions, Skelly is ready to begin treatment. Step one is to administer the heartworm preventative. As you may recall, Skeletor was given the preventative back in March and it stirred up one heck of a dangerous reaction.

This time, he's going to stay at the hospital and will hopefully have nowhere near as strong of a reaction.

Needless to say, this is pretty nerve wracking! We'll have to wait and see... I'll post updates as I receive them.

Good Luck Skelly!



[UPDATE]

I called ahead to the vet's office to make sure that Dr. Chick was available. They said that he was seeing patients until 10am, at which time he was going into surgery. There was no time to be wasted!

I stretched a bed sheet across my back seat and then went in the house to put a harness on the already overly thrilled Skeletor. I lead him out to the car through the garage. As soon as he hopped in the back seat, he began coughing. By the time I walked around and got into the driver's seat, his coughing became very productive as he lost his breakfast (and medicine) all over the seat.

Poor guy was just too excited (as usual). I sprung into action, pulled him out of the car, clipped him to the tree, bundled the sheet around the puke and placed it in the garage. I grabbed a roll of paper towels and some upholstery cleaner and quickly cleaned the remaining juice off the seat.

I grabbed Skelly and he jumped back into the car. "No more puking please?"

I'm happy to report that he didn't do any more coughing on the way to the vet. He even took my advice and lied down for about half the way.

Read the full story on Skelly's Blog

[UPDATE]

I'm happy to announce that Skeletor had little to no reaction to the preventative yesterday! He came home the same day and was barking at cats and chomping on rawhide like nothing had even happened!

Quite a pleasant surprise! My guess is that being anemic and weak last time, he was just more susceptible.

I'm going to call Dr. Chick Monday to schedule Skelly's next visit.

Kiss those heartworms goodbye, tough guy!

Read the full story on Skelly's blog

Please spread the word and help us fund Skeletor's heartworm treatment. We hope he will lead a long, happy and normal life after getting rid of those pesky heartworms!

[seperalem]

I he is so handsome - you have worked wonders on him. I can't believe people effed him up so badly! congrats on starting treatment

[tipoketpu]

Thanks so much! He makes rehab fun

[Dstyeglm]

He is beautiful! I am so glad the treatment is going to help him. Thanks for all what you do for him.

[vekiuytyh]

He is adorable..... Glad things are going well for him!! =)

[tipoketpu]

We're keeping our fingers crossed. Not reacting to the preventative certainly gives us a lot of hope for him!