Pet Medications
Aug 10, 2007 in Pet Stories
I’m a sucker for needy animals, so I founded an animal shelter for dogs and cats and find them loving new parents. As much as I would love to I can’t take all the shelter pets home with me, but I can bathe and groom them, play with them, and give them a lot of love, which includes seeing that they are flea and tick free and receive the pet medications they need to become and stay healthy.
My inspiration for founding the animal shelter was my little Shih Tzu, Thor, and Sophie, a beautiful black and white longhaired cat. Both of our four-footed babies are pets that my fiancé and I rescued. Daniel is an architect, and four years ago he found a tiny, mange-ridden puppy that was nearly blind from cataracts and had been abandoned at the construction site. A week later, Sophie Kitty-Girl showed up on our back deck and decided to adopt us. She was about four months old, and starved to nothing but bones.
Thor and Sophie were both infested with parasites, and needed immediate medical attention. Between the treatments for Thor’s mange and eye problems and treatment for the conditions caused by Sophie being nearly starved to death, our personal vet and pet medications bills went sky high! That’s when we went on the Internet and found ePetDrugs.com where we could buy flea and tick prevention pet medications at discount prices.
At the shelter, it is especially important that consistently use pet medications to prevent flea and tick infestations. We want our pet guests to be comfortable and safe from diseases carried by ticks, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease and other diseases and parasites that can be transmitted to both other animals and humans, including tapeworm infestations transmitted through flea bites. With careful attention to the regular administration of flea and tick medications to our pets, we have taken control of parasite infestations at our pet shelter.
Each new pet that comes to live at the shelter is immediately bathed, groomed and treated with pet medications for fleas and ticks. Their ear flaps are trimmed and their ears are cleaned and treated with ear wash and topical ear medication, if needed. We keep them isolated from the other pets for the first 48 hours they are with us for observation and so the pet medications have time to take effect. Once the pet medications have taken effect, the new cat or dog is released to join the general pet population.
Because we allow many of our pets daily time to play and exercise together, we keep meticulous records for each pet that tell us when they are due for another application of flea and tick pet medications. This is particularly important for our pet residents who are allergic to flea bites or have skin conditions that are exacerbated by flea bites and need to take medications for their skin problems. For our dogs whose skin conditions preclude the use of topical flea and tick pet medications, we administer the medicine in chewable tablets that can be given to the dog whole or crumbled into his or her food. Cats with similar skin conditions are given the liquid form of pet medications.
Many of the dogs and cats that come to the shelter are strays or abandoned pets that are found and brought to us by local citizens, but it’s not unusual for us to get pets whose human companions have died or can no longer take care of them. In addition to needing medications for parasite infestation, many of these dogs are overweight and stiff-jointed from cartilage loss because they are kept indoors and have little or no opportunity for exercise. The pain experienced by pets suffering from stiff joints can be alleviated by pet medications that prevent further cartilage breakdown while a healthy diet and exercise do their work in restoring lost cartilage.
There are several pets at the shelter that, like Thor and Sophie at home, are unlikely to be adopted because of severe medical conditions or deformities. Some of these dogs and cats are fostered by caring people in our area, and others have a permanent home at the shelter. We will continue to give them the love, care and pet medicines they need to keep them healthy and happy and we will continue to order all of our Pet Med’s from ePetDrugs.com
