Jamie and I just got back from a week long vacation in which we had to leave the dogs at home. Luckily I have a great friend who I trust to stay at the house and watch them. It's funny how it becomes such an ordeal to leave these little guys. I didn't want them to stay somewhere else because Otis can't settle down when he's at a new place with strange things and he won't sleep, and Allie in different environments can have horrible allergic reactions. So it was a huge relief to have my friend stay at the house with them.
The day before we left though Allie's face started breaking out with the allergy sores he gets. It was worse and more at one time than we had seen in six months or so, so we got really worried about leaving him. We've been trying very hard to not use antibiotics in case he one day really needs them we want to make sure they stay effective. So, we went through our routine of popping his sores to drain the infection as much as we can. Doing additional face cleanings (he usually gets one medicated face wipe a day) and upping his anti-histamine pills. We also had our vet give us a antibiotic prescription just in case our friend needed it while we were gone.
Fast forward to a week later, we are home now and his face is healing really nicely. The antibiotics weren't necessary so we now have them on hand just in case. It's so nice to finally get to the point where we have figured out how to control some of the breakouts.
Oh yeah, and we're so glad to be home and missed our babies a ton!
