Living in the rain forest does have it's advantages. Being a rural area, we get a lot of house calls - everything from the German Bakery, to the butcher shop and, yes, even the veterinarians come right to the door along with your usual variety of "tramps and hawkers" selling hammocks and floor mats, kitchen utensils, etc.
The dogs - Gracie and Sally - never quite seem to get used to it. A lovely, gentle vet gave them both the once over and they behaved very well. They were given pills - one huge and theoretically chewable, the other rather small - to immediately repel the fleas that had hitched a ride with them which I administered later that afternoon cleverly disguised as hot dogs. I was left with a syringe and something to inject them with that eliminates fleas and ticks that can be irritating and even lethal during the rainy season. I have found a combination of FrontLine and flea collars to be successful.
One of the dogs, Gracie, develops an ear infection during the rainy season so I was given a regimen to treat that as well. Trouble now is that as soon as the dogs see me with anything that appears to them of a medical nature, they are out the door in a flash. I have to alter my routine yet again it seems.
In any case, the dogs are healthy and a little too smart for my liking...but there you have it.
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