Good News for Rigby

Rigby had a follow up visit to the vet for them to take a skin scrape and see if his skin infection has cleared up yet. The good news is that he is infection free!

The infection really got in the way of us figuring out what exactly he was allergic to since it was tough to know if the inflammation was from the infection or from a reaction to a food. Now when we test foods it will be easier to know if a food is truly okay for him to have.

The bad news is that a certain little puppy in our house is a messy eater and often leaves kibble scattered around his crate. Rigby helped himself to the left overs - a puppy kibble that has both chicken and grain in it - and we now have a flare up going on. The vet prescribed the corticosteroid Temaril, which works well for Rigby and hopefully the uncomfortable flare up will calm down over the next couple days.

To solve this problem in the future, Magill's crate is never left open, even when he isn't in it, and I always try to find any stray kibble he may have left lying around after his meal.

At the vet Rigby was a complete gentleman as usual, ignoring a rude Chihuahua, sitting calmly while being weighed (19.3#), and being very stoic during his skin scrape. To reward him for a job well done he was given a large stick of dried catfish (Honest Kitchen Beams) to chew on while I paid the bill at the end of the visit. He then calmly and quietly relaxed in the doggy car seat for the drive back home. What a good boy he is!