Our dog Lucy has had four ear inner-ear infections in the last year. That works out to about one every 3 months. Treatment for these recurring infections (vet visits, drops, antibiotics, cortizone shots, maintenance ear cleaner) is way more than our dwindling budget can handle! After her last ear infection (about a month ago), our vet gave us two options: since it seems to be an underlying yeast problem that keeps getting triggered by something in the environment, we can 1) clean her ears once a week and give her maintenance ear drops twice a week, or 2) switch her to a hypo-allergenic diet (cutting out all treats, table scraps, etc.) for 8 weeks to see if she's allergic to something in her food. After doing option #1 for a month (and having a dog with constant chemical-ears around our grabby baby) we decided to start Lucy on the special diet.
Get this--for the next two weeks, Lucy will be eating a gourmet meal of KANGAROO MEAT every day!
...dumb old dog.
(Yes, this is Lucy pretending to be a gopher).
In other news, Matt and I discovered an organic farm right here in Jessamine county! We're buying a share of the farm (that is run by three families) and will be getting weekly boxes of seasonal produce, herbs, and fresh-cut flowers! And when the weather warms up we can visit the farm, too. I am SO EXCITED! It doesn't get better than this--supporting local business AND buying organic veggies for CHEAP! I feel like we discovered a gold mine!
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Thanks for writing this.
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