Milo recuperating after removal of over 70 ticks.
Poor Milo
24 Tuesday Aug 2010
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Milo seems to be back to normal, he jumped into the back of the car with ease yesterday, he also did (for the first time) his circular ‘happiness’ run when seeing Max and Thomas in Sydney.
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Hi Emm,
I told Milo the good news but I suspect he might want to visit Lola firts. He is in no state to chase anything. Thanks for the tip on keeping him quiet and warm. I was unaware that it will take some time.
Poor Milo.
Ps. Micro waving some chicken thighs for him.
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My little Lola sends her very best wishes to Milo.
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Thanks Lola,
We took Milo back to the vet yesterday. He has been lethargic and doesn’t seem to be able to use his back legs very well. Because of the burden of so many ticks, his recovery might take a month or so. According to the vet, ticks are worse than snake bite.
He sleeps in the laundry with the door open. Luckily he has a warm electric dog bed. We do have frosts here in Moss-Vale.
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Hi Gez. I was reluctant to point out that a decent dose of tick poison might take a fair while to overcome. Coming off the critical list is good, but coming good might take a while. Warm and well-nourished is the way. Give him a big pat from FM and from me.
Also Kali – goddess of destruction – sends her best wishes.
I’m sad to say that George and Tasha are coolly indifferent. So when the boy gets over the lurgy, please bring him up for a few laps of the backyard. I’m putting my money of the Jack. Cats NIL, Jack 2 !
There’s an incentive !
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Yack, Gez, I’m feeling all sick now…can you delete that top picture, please
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The top dog doesn’t look like Milo. Mind you that tick infestation doen’t nice either.
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I suppose he wanted to impress us with those ticks in a jar to justity the size of his bill. I was surprised that some of those ticks were alive trying to crawl out. The vet had to beat them back into the jar with the help of a spatula.
Driving around Dungog and Barrington Tops I noticed that the alpacas have disappeared. No wonder!
The science of breeding animals resistant to ticks is progressing. Trouble is that the ticks then come up with changing their genes and become resistant to the latest poison as well. Monsanto then ends up laughing all the way to the bank. Milo is a bit crook falls over and wobbly in his back legs still.
Where is Maddie?
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Poor little thing… I hope he’s recovering well?
🙂
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70 ticks!!! Are you serious? I’m surprised Milo is even alive; and where did he get these 70 ticks? Aren’t you two now living in some idyllic townhouse at the end of a garden? Hardly tick territory. Who did the removal?
Poor little beggar, this won’t do at all!
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It happened at Barrington tops, possibly picking most of them up around the garden of the house where we were staying, also on the way to the Chichester dam. A damp and very lush rain forest, a beautiful walk and Milo unleashed for 15 minutes or so chasing wallabies. When we returned to Sydney, Milo became lethargic and started vomitting. Next day, Sunday, he was vomitting and getting wobbly. We discovered a single tick first but found many more on closer inspection. Same day we took him to a Veterinary seven day hospital. Just looking superficially the vet found clusters of them around his mouth and nose which the vet picked off by hand. The total tally was over seventy. They were kept in jar which the vet proudly showed us.
He stayed overnight on an anti venom drip. He is now back at St Henri, eating steamed chicken and grooming himself around the genitals with his usual gusto. He has survived.
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Glad to hear it, Gerard!
🙂
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There’s been a discussion over at First Dog at Crikey about the dangers of inhaling Milo when you eat it dry straight from the tin, but nothing has been said about using Milo as a tick attractant.
As a person given to poor tolerance of lactose, Milo powder is a big no-no for me. I recall one late night session working in Adelaide when the vending machine has nothing but Milo bars. That was before i knew I was lactose intolerant. Curious that we had to go back to the townhouse in North Adelaide with the window down in the car. And I got to sleep in the big bed – all by myself….. all by myself, just wanna be…. all by myself.
Sorry, went off tarmac there…… thos Wallabies are going to pay next time, I bet….
Go Milo Go !
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I thought it was 100 ticks.
He looks alive, which is a good sign.
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No not hundred ticks. Still, because of the huge number you could hear them breathe which had a kind of rasping sound.
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Eeeeeewwww… fancy having to listen to raspy tick-breath… can’t have been much fun…
😉
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Is the vet some kind of sadist keeping the jar of live ticks? Or maybe he was saving them all up for you to do a revenge kill.
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