Does your dog have a mystery ailment?
I've seen this exact problem with my friend's lab! This is good to see a network that helps connect pet owners with the right diagnosticians.
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Getting to the Bottom of a Mystery Ailment
Michele Milam lost count a long time ago of the number of times she’d taken her dog, Darby, to veterinarians.
The 7-year-old chocolate Labrador suffered from allergies and had been prescribed one medication after another. When the family moved from Detroit, Michigan, to Greenville, South Carolina, Darby’s problems only got worse. He was scratching and biting his skin raw.
“No one could diagnose him,” Milam says. “He just kept getting sicker and sicker.”
It broke the family’s heart to see the once healthy, happy and active dog turn sad and listless. Darby, Milam says, is the one everyone in the family turned to for comfort when they were feeling the stress of moving.
Read more at network.bestfriends.orgIn September, a friend of Milam’s put her in touch with Best Friends member Judy Mische in California. Milam and Mische began corresponding via Facebook. Mische told Milam to contact Best Friends Animal Society to see if it could help.
Michele Milam lost count a long time ago of the number of times she’d taken her dog, Darby, to veterinarians.