Rebel has one more week to go on doxycycline; he's being treated for Lyme disease. Unfortunately, ticks abound in this area. However, Rebel's an excellent patient and doesn't give me a hard time when it comes to taking his medicine. Now if it were the cats--any one of the cats--forget it!I suspect Rebel may have been bitten by a widow spider three weeks ago, since he exhibited some of the same symptoms Ponzo did last summer. It appeared that Rebel was on the verge of having a seizure; he lost coordination of his legs; and he started drooling from one side of his mouth, dripping steadily like a faucet. Unless he ate something outside which I was unaware of and was having an allergic reaction, I think he could have been bitten by a poisonous spider. Rebel looked fine a few hours later, other than he wasn't his normal barky self. Nevertheless, Rebel did test positive for Lyme, so it's better to be safe than sorry, which is why he's taking the antibiotics.
