The TRUTH of Owning Huskies! Back to the Emergency Vet!

Guess what we're doing today? Apparently, we're playing on the A-Frame and trying to... Are you rolling acorns down the A-Frame, Miss Ma'am? Guys! I feel like we just did a video like this a week ago. Because we did! A week ago, if you did not see the video from last week, I'll put it up in the cards and down in the video description below. You can go watch that one first or you can watch it after this one, if you would like. I did a video where we talked about Kira's paw and what's been going on with Kira's paw. Well, fast forward... This dog is fine! To one week later, I just got back from the urgent care with Kira. It's officially been two weeks as of tomorrow that she started her antibiotics for her paw. Well, this morning Jamie was like, Kira is licking her paw! We've kept the booty on her for quite a while. I think she had it off yesterday because everything was looking really good. So, this morning he said she was starting to lick her paw and he stopped her. So, we went and looked at it again and it was gross. So, I called the vet and sent pictures. They wanted to see her. It should not look like this after two weeks of antibiotics. So, we went in today and... They did a little... It's called a skin scrape where they kind of do a... They take a little thing and they look at it under a microscope to see if it's bacterial, fungal or yeast. It actually looks like it might be fungal, but there wasn't a lot of fungal. So, she's starting a new medication tomorrow to hopefully treat it. But, because the skin scrape didn't really show clearly what it was, we also did a culture. They take like a little Q-tip and they wipe it on all the stuff that her paw is showing. And they're gonna send that in to Michigan State University. So, hopefully we can get a really clear image of what this is and make sure that we're treating it properly. But, because that can take like seven days to... Holy dirt tossing! That can take like seven days to actually come back. We're gonna go ahead and start her on the other medication. Which I don't know the name of, but I have to go pick it up for Meyer tomorrow morning. Because the pharmacy was closed by the time I got done at the urgent care. She'll start that medicine tomorrow and we will kind of go from there. What on earth are you doing? Oh, and there's way more updates than just that in this video. Eleanor is fine, but guess who else went to the vet this week? That one! See, Kira's good! Memphis also... Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! You can't... Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Okay! Slow down! Slow down! Slow down! Slow down! They're all spunky! You're all crazy! Every one of you! You're nuts! You're crazy! Hey! Slow down! She's like, nope! I'm going as fast as I can. Okay! We're gonna calm the crazies down for a minute here. So, I can tell you the next story. Okay! So now that we have calmed down a little bit... No, we haven't! She's taking off. Now, I can tell you the story about Memphis. So, what is today? The day I'm filming this? Friday? So Tuesday, we noticed... Or was it Monday? No, it was Tuesday. We noticed that Memphis had a weird spot. Now, I don't know if you guys remember. I know we talked about it more on the vlog channel than we did here. Memphis had a spot... A couple of spots on her chest last year. Where she lost a bunch of hair and we had to go in. It was kind of the same thing we did with Kira. We had to do a skin scrape and a culture and all these things and figure out what it was. So we could make sure we were treating it with the right medicines and things like that. Well, Memphis... Eleanor is fine! Again, let me reiterate, Eleanor is fine! I mean, you guys... They're all actually okay. This is all like skin stuff. Which I don't understand, but whatever. It happens. It's been really humid and hot. Anyway, I'm rambling. So Memphis has a spot. Not on this side. Right on this side. If you don't want to see it, look away. I'm going to show you. Right here. See how she's missing some fur there? I'll cover that back up. Okay, you can look back. That's Memphis' spot. So what it was, when Jamie and I found it... It was like kind of weird and crusted over. As we were trying to clean it to see what it was... The fur around it all fell out. Which made me think it was the exact same thing she had on her chest last year. Which was a yeast infection of her skin. So we went into the vet. They did the culture-y thing. It showed it's a bacterial skin infection. Not a yeast infection. But, her chest one did that last year as well. If I remember correctly. Somebody who knows all the Snow Dogs lore. Remind me if I'm correct on that. But I think I am. But I'm not a hundred percent certain. So anyway, we are treating... We don't want to give Memphis oral antibiotics for just one spot. We gave her the entire once over. And we looked for any other spots. Any other areas where her fur was kind of doing that weird thing. And so far, we haven't found any other spots. Which is amazing news. It might just be this one spot. This actually could have started as a hot spot. We do not know. Because again, it was in the nineties here in Northern Michigan. It was very humid. When it's humid... Hot spots happen because their fur stays wet. I have double coated dogs. Hot spots are much more common in double coated dogs. Because the moisture gets trapped in their fur. Are you tripping over your own feet? So anyway, it could have started as a hot spot. We do not know. Right now, like I was saying. We don't want to treat her with oral antibiotics for just one spot. Because Memphis has a lot of liver issues and other issues. Giving her a bunch of oral antibiotics is not something we necessarily want to do. So for her... Again, I went to the vet Tuesday with her. We're doing the silver... The SSD cream. And these antibacterial wipes. I have to wipe it... I have to do the wipe and then the cream twice a day. That's where we're starting with her. If this doesn't look better... Which it actually looks quite a bit better today. If it doesn't look better by Monday... I'm going to take her in and get her the oral antibiotics. Oh! And I got shampoo for her. So I got a medicated shampoo for her. To also help with this. And I'm going to give her a bath tomorrow. Just to kind of get that all over. The medicated shampoo they said is also nice. Because if there is another spot forming somewhere and we may not notice it. We may not know that it's there. That's going to help kind of get everything around her whole body. Again, I don't think she has any more spots. Jamie and I have been petting her and massaging her and looking for anything. We haven't found anything. The vet did that as well when we were at the vet's office. So I think she's good. So... Sorry that the videos... The past two videos have been medical updates for the dogs. I hate leaving you guys in the dark for things like this. I also really like doing videos like this for you guys because we've all been there. We've all had our dogs had really strange medical things that we don't have answers for that pop up. And I feel like making a video like this kind of going through the process of what we're doing. Sharing what our experience was. If it can help even just one person is totally worth it. That and... This is going to sound really crazy, but you guys are kind of like therapy for me. Like reading your comments having these conversations with you communicating this with you guys and seeing what you guys say. It's therapeutic, I guess is the word I'm looking for. So being able to share this even just talking it out when I make these videos helps me make things clearer in my own mind. But then I also have it to look back at as well. So like I'm going to go back and I'm going to watch the video where I talked about Memphis spots from last year and figure out is there something different that we should try that we did last year that worked. Because again, I do have multiple dogs I've had a lot of things that happened with my dogs so sometimes we kind of forget. That was why I was saying if any of you remember it, let me know. Eleanor is fine. Can you tell? Like I said, realistically they're all fine. Sometimes I also get nervous making these videos because I really don't want you guys to worry. The dogs are all fine. As I said in the last video, I'll say it again in this video We do have a GoFundMe. Please don't feel like you have to donate to it or anything like that. But I'm also using it to kind of update you guys with the different vet visits and things that we've done with the dogs and the reality of the costs. You know what I should do at the end of this year? I should do a how much my dogs cost us at the vet. Oh my gosh, would that be something you guys would like to see where I break down everything we paid for at the vet for a year? I think you all would be shocked. Most of this year we did good. Towards the end of this year it's been a little bit crazy though. I know it's warm out here, huh? It's warm out here. That's why we're hanging out out here for a little bit. Oh, Kira's stalking something. She's watching something and Eleanor's just having a blast. Cause that's what she does. But anyway, as I was saying, there is a GoFundMe. We do have Venmo. Please do not feel like you have to donate to it. It is for those of you that constantly ask how you can help with the dogs vet bills. Another way you can help if you want to is you can become a member of this channel. All of the membership fees that you guys pay go directly to a little bank account that I have set up for the dogs that is all for their vet bills. So hopefully that all made sense. Am I rambling? Yes. Is it late in the evening? Yes. Am I ready for bed already? Yes. I gotta take Kira inside. I gotta soak her paw. I gotta do Memphis this thing again. Then I gotta give her a bath tomorrow. Get dogs, they said. It'll be fun, they said. This is the real truth of owning dogs. The real truth of owning dogs in a multi-dog household. I guess I should say the real truth of owning dogs when you actually do everything in your power to take care of them. You know what we say. Protect the Memphis at all costs. But in reality, protect the Memphis at all costs. Protect the Kira at all costs. And protect the Eleanor at all costs. Eleanor, we're gonna put you in a bubble. That's what we're gonna do. You're gonna go in a bubble because you're fine. Quit digging in the dirt. You might find something. No, I'm just kidding. Alright. I have rambled enough. If you guys would like to see more fun videos and a little bit more detailed videos about the vet visits and things that we've been doing, you can always check out our vlog channel over at YouTube.com slash SnowDogsVlogs. We've also been uploading some short form content, doing little updates on all of their health things and stuff like that on TikTok and over at YouTube.com slash SnowDogShorts. That's where our short form content goes. Follow us on TikTok. I will put links for all of those down and below. There's actually a link down below that says Beacons. Click that and at the top, follow us on all of our other social sites. So you guys can see more of who we are and what we do. So there you go. Old school rambling video here on Gone to the Snow Dogs for the second week in a row. Next week will be better, right? Next week I think will be a camping footage video. But we'll see how that works out. No plans. We're not making plans. Also, look at this beautiful sunset that's happening over here. You know, even though it's been crazy, even though everything has been wild, you gotta take the time to appreciate the little things in life. Like a beautiful sunset. Boop! Yes, I know. We're going inside. Alright you guys. Come on out! We hope you guys enjoyed today's video. As always, thanks so much for watching. Thanks for subscribing. Stay positive. Dream big! We will see you again soon. Drop some questions down below. I will do my best to answer everything I can about today's video. Love you guys! Goodbye! Pawdience!