Dogs - poison oak, giardia?

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candlelight001

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Just went for a 3 day trip in the Trinity Alps, jonesing to take my dog/s next time. Two concerns:

1) I'm really sensitive to poison oak, work hard to avoid it as I get a real bad reaction. How in the world do I keep my dogs out of it and/or keep from getting it from them?

2) Do you need to worry about giardia w/ dogs?

Thanks!
 
Talfuchre said:
Yes - dogs can get Giardia. Filter their water too.

TF
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Hike with dogs much? Pretty hard to keep your dogs from getting ahead of you to a creek/pond/whatever and getting a drink. For what it's worth, I've never had any problems with my dogs getting sick.
 
Go to the vet with your dog and get the animal a giardia vaccine and a leptosporosis vaccine. Call first as these usually need to be ordered ahead of time. Also, you should get the dog tested for heart-worms if you haven't yet and then from there out give it a monthly wormer. Also, frontline is your dogs friend in keeping ticks and fleas away.
 
http://www.canismajor.com/dog/giardia.html

http://www.beaglesunlimited.com/beaglehealth_giardiasis.htm
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Dogs eat turds,every kind of turds known, with no gastrointestinal problems.I don't reckon untreated water will bother them.
 
candlelight001 said:
Just went for a 3 day trip in the Trinity Alps, jonesing to take my dog/s next time. Two concerns:

1) I'm really sensitive to poison oak, work hard to avoid it as I get a real bad reaction. How in the world do I keep my dogs out of it and/or keep from getting it from them?

2) Do you need to worry about giardia w/ dogs?

Thanks!
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The poison oak thing is a tough one. There's really only two alternatives I can think of.
1: keep a watchful eye and somehow by some miracle keep them from walking through it. Take precautions by wearing long sleeve shirts when touching the dogs and wash them every night after a day in the field.
2: leave the dogs at home. Unfortunately that looks like the best option.
Maybe some of the other guys can think of something simpler but I sure can't. The urishol is mean stuff and a dog's fur won't absorb it so it's always waiting there for you to get.
Later,
Iz
 
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