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Chicago Tribune, Sunday, February 14, 1993 Section 15 11 Horn JO! IB Pets By Ann Huntington, D.V.M. Her calico kitten is cursed with mighty mites: Here's how to administer the medicine mense white, 110-pound Great Pyrenees. Moments later, Sherri Samel, 34, the Dallas dog trainer nominated by her peers as the best new dog handler in the country, rushed through the lobby with Wizard, her 65-pound Belgian Tervuren, on a leash, and her 25-pound Welsh corgi in her arms, looking for a patch of grass. "Usually I like to go into the lobby with Satchmo," Samel said. funny: Without him, I feel like nobody knows who I am," Satchmo is the famous 140-pound bull mastiff who won top honors last year.

If a maid had knocked at Room 376 10 minutes earlier, she would have seen Satchmo lying on one of the twin beds, taking a nap, and the corgi in a cage on a table eyeing the sleeping Satchmo, while a strange muffled barking emanated from another cage completely covered with towels. Wizard the Tervuren sleeps there, hidden away, because Satchmo doesn't like to look at him. And in the closet the maid would have found the stack of large diapers, unused. "They're ridiculous," Samel said. "What good is this? Maybe for a small dog, but with Satchmo, I'd need 13 or 14 of them." Surveying the lobby proudly, general manager Walles said that when he lifted the hotel's dog ban in 1989, "People said I was nuts.

But this was our biggest convention, and probably our best. The dogs are great. And we do $300,000 to $400,000 in room business in just four days." Now dogs can oinkfor their supper By Terry Lee Goodrich Just when you thought you were up on haute cuisine for your dog, there's a new doggy delicacy: pigs' ears. They made their debut in U.S. pet stores recently.

i "Our treats are smoked in a wood smokehouse and cooked 12 to 48 hours, so there's a natural hickory-smoked flavor," says David Brattain, marketing director of Booda Products of Gardena, one of the companies that prepares the treats. "We cook out much of the fat; we don't use any Brattain said. "There are no chemical additives or preservatives, and the process enhances the color and flavor," he said. The Booda ears cost $2.50 to $3 in packages of two and are sold as Piggy Puffs or Piggy Chews. Other types sell for 99 cents each.

The chews are smoked longer and are tougher, more the consist tency of beef jerky or rawhide. Ears from other companies use other processes, including dehydration, but veterinarians say that smoking or roasting is more likely to ward off salmonella or other bacteria. Ft. Wot Star-Tlegrr derm also has an ingredient that should be effective against mites. A new treatment appears to be effective using the drug Ivermectin; however, it not yet is authorized for use in cats.

It should only be used if all else has failed. My 12-year-old poodle is blind because of cataracts. Can they be removed by laser or surgery? Is it dangerous? No vet in our town can give me information. How do I find a vet who removes cataracts, and how costly is it? A Yes, cataracts can be removed from dogs. The most common and effective technique is phaecoemulsification.

It is done best by a veterinary ophthalmologist. But not every dog with cataracts is a good candidate. In some instances there is too much eye inflammation, or there may be other, pre-existing, causes of blindness, such as retinal disease, which occurs in poodles. Ask your veterinarian for a referral to a specialist in eye diseases. If the vet is not familiar with anyone, write to the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists, co Dr.

John Lavach, 13132 Garden Grove Garden Grove, Calif. 92634, which can refer you to members near your home. Trlburw Media SarvicM Dr. Huntington welcomes questions. She cannot reply individually, but she will answer those of general interest in this column.

Write to Dr. Huntington, co the Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Chicago, III. 60611. You also may send electronic mail to us at screen name TribHome on Chicago Online.

If your pet's problem is urgent, consult your vet. Continued from page 10 little weird, and you get on and the other passengers melt into the corner, or get off the elevator so your dog can get on." The lobby of the Hotel Pennsylvania was, in dogdom, the place to see and be seen, sniff and be sniffed. Job Michael Evans, presidentelect of the Dog Writers of America, dog trainer for Calvin Klein and Mary Tyler Moore, passed through the lobby headed for a ninth-floor meeting with other dog writers. He lives in New York but stayed in the hotel for a few days because it was the place to be. Off the elevator came Keyta, an Ibizan hound from Houston, wearing a wool sweater knitted by its owner's grandmother for the northern chill, following an Old English sheepdog in custom-designed British boots for the snow and salt.

Helmar enjoyed noting that most of the dogs in the lobby resembled their owners. "What else could I be but a bulldog person?" she said. In truth, time has given Helmar a substantial lower girth, even a few creases in her face, though nothing like Prissy's. "Look," Helmar said, "that man is definitely a Pyrenees person." And in truth, a portly gentleman with a great white, Hemingway-style beard stood next to his im 0 My son and I have calico kittens. My son has worked relentlessly with foam bath from the vet to stop the kittens some of the debris but also will push some down into the ear canal and pack it in.

I suggest that you use the medication thus: Put a few drops in each ear, then massage each ear very well. The cat undoubtedly will shake her head a lot afterwards. After you've allowed her to shake her head, take a cotton ball, or a tissue, and wipe out anything that has come to the surface so the ears aren't messy. But don't go digging inside. Unfortunately, ear mites don't live only in the ear canal.

Colonies can live in the skin of the neck or even as far down as the shoulders. Most good flea powders will kill ear mites, so you also should use flea powder. Several medicines are formulated specifically for ear mites, among them Mitox and Nolvamite. Tresa from scratching themselves. Also, my calico has ear mites.

My son cleans out my kitten's ears twice a week. The medication is Tresaderm. Is there something more effective? Ear mites arc almost microscopic bugs (you can see them with a magnifying glass) that cause very itchy, messy ear infections in dogs, cats, rabbits and many other mammals. The mites are white, but the black stuff that comes out of the ears is ear wax and the mites' feces. We use medicine that is specific for ear mites.

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