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Camping With Dogs: Is Tearing Down Camp To Find A Vet Necessary? #VetOnDemand App Review

5/8/2015

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Camping With Dogs: Is Tearing Down Camp To Find A Vet Necessary? #VetOnDemand App Review
The pets are not sure Vet on Demand facetime with veterinarian is something we need to do while camping.
Typist: Bethany
Nebraska was beautiful. Camp was set up. The sun had set. During twilight playtime with the dogs, I found an engorged tick on Huxley's chest. Without panic, I got the tick removing tool from my canine first aid kit and cleanly removed the entire tick from it's collie victim. Then I saw the gaping wound the tick removal process had left on my dog. I panicked. Now for dog lovers in areas where ticks are prevalent, go ahead and laugh "of course!" I am an outdoorsy dog person from Cascadia where ticks are very rare. I had no idea so much skin and fur were going to come off with the blood sucking insect. I nervously paced the campsite searching the internet for any article or advice about what to do. By the time I found a trusted answer, twilight was gone and I was sick to my stomach from stress.

When I used the Vet On Demand
™ app for this review, I told the veterinarian, Dr. Baxter, about that evening camping in Nebraska. He explained that it is indeed normal for a large amount of skin and fur to come off when an engorged tick is fully removed. Dr. Baxter recommended washing a wound like this out with soap and water, keeping it clean and watching for signs of infection. This is the exact advice I finally found in an article on my mobile device search engine as the twilight dwindled in the cornhusker state. It took me well over a half an hour of searching to discover the truth about Huxley's tick wound. Dr. Baxter gave his wound advice in less than two minutes. He continued to warn that the real risks in finding a tick sucking on a dog are tick borne diseases like Lyme and Rock Mountain Fever. Testing for tick diseases is essential so that anything a dog may have contracted from a tick can be treated with antibiotics as soon as possible, Dr. Baxter advised. Getting Huxley tested for tick diseases is exactly what I did once we returned to Seattle. For the duration of our call, the Vet On Demand veterinarian gave me advice about searching for ticks on my ridiculously long furred rough collie. Upon seeing Huxley during our app video call, Dr. Baxter exclaimed "look at all that fur!" Dr. Baxter also relayed to me some of his favorite tick prevention methods.
Vet on Demand App Home screen
Setting up a Vet on Demand app is intuitive, quick and easy
Vet on Demand call screenshot
Vet on Demand app wait screenshot
Vet on Demand facetime screenshot
After less than a minute wait time for the convenient Vet On Demand app to text me to let me know that Dr. Baxter was available, I am very pleased with how much I learned in an eleven minute call. The support from the app developers has also impressed me. Yesterday, I updated the app and it continuously crashed. Literally minutes after I had uninstalled and reinstalled the app to fix the problem, I got an e-mail from the developers suggesting exactly that action. Such commitment to app quality reassures me that the Vet On Demand developers are truly committed to providing on-call, real-time service and reliable health advice from experienced, registered veterinarians who are dedicated to providing top-notch care for pets. The Vet On Demand Interactive Care Platform™ is an affordable option to have a licensed veterinarian look and listen, provide general advice and help decide if an emergency vet visit is necessary.
Camping With Dogs: Is Tearing Down Camp To Find A Vet Necessary? #VetOnDemand App Review
I think having an affordable, Vet on Demand app veterinarian means pet-friendly camping is safer and more fun.
This exactly the type of help I needed while desperately searching for dog wound answers, struggling with a decision to uproot camp and seek an emergency vet in the middle of Nebraska. After I cleaned Huxley's removed tick wound at our campsite, I decided to go ahead and light a campfire even though it was quite late. I hoped doing something routine would calm my frazzled nerves. As I reminisce on that evening, I can't help but wonder how different it would have been if I could have just opened the Vet On Demand app. Still, at least I didn't have to tear down camp and rush to an emergency vet for something I learned is rather trivial. There is not yet an app invented that will keep me from fretting if one of my pets is ill or injured but having the Vet On Demand app is one step closer to making me feel at ease while on pet friendly adventures.
See Vet On Demand in the App Store
Vet On Demand app logo
Vet On Demand is currently only available for Apple devices but an Android version is is coming soon. Vet On Demand also hopes to expand their services to be available for exotic pets, like birds!
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Leah link
5/8/2015 01:23:34 am

Vet on Demand sounds like something I need in my travel arsenal! Good review.

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Bethany
5/8/2015 08:43:48 am

Thank you Leah. Since the app is free, account set up is simple and if you do ever HAVE to use it while on the road, video chat with a veterinarian is only $2.50 per minute, I think is definitely a pet friendly traveler essential!

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Connie Marie
5/8/2015 08:15:26 am

Good thing to have when traveling! Good thing you have an I phone also. Hope bloodwork is clean. Ticks are nasty, gives me the heebee jeebees.
Theereall over here in Iowa.

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Bethany
5/8/2015 08:47:30 am

I don't think I would be so brave about traveling solo with all my pets if I didn't have technology like my iPhone with me. Huxley did have two clean vector tests after that tick scare, thank you. I actually think Huxley got the tick the morning before I found it, when we were hiking in Iowa! That means it hadn't been sucking on him for long which is good for the disease but does not decrease the "GROSS" factor. :p

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speedyrabbit link
5/8/2015 08:49:50 pm

there is a special tool you can get for removing ticks,I use it on speedy,xx Speedy's mum Rachel

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Bethany
5/18/2015 06:34:05 am

We have a Ticked-Off removal spoon. The entire tick came off very easily, I just didn't expect so much skin and fur to come with it! I might try another tool at some point but the spoon works so well for my thick and long fur dogs. It is hard to pinpoint the tick through all that fur (and with a wiggling dog too!)

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Brittany @pawsforbeer link
5/12/2015 12:38:39 am

Thanks for sharing this - I have never heard of this service and as a fellow dog traveler this could come in handy. I usually research the vets of the towns I'm stopping in and have their phone number on hand but this seems like a much better solution!

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Bethany
5/18/2015 06:31:33 am

Thanks for your comment Brittany. I would say that both tools combined make you the most prepared for anything. I also always have the nearest vets address and phone number when I plan a trip and this means if the Vet on Demand vet says "go be seen NOW" it can be quick and easy. Sometimes, like when we were in Nebraska, the nearest vet is not near so a quick Vet on Demand video chat wouldn't take too much away from still rushing to the vet if needed. In fact, it would take less time than the arduous internet search I did for the tick wound!

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Sweet Purrfections link
5/18/2015 06:17:53 am

I've also had problems the last week trying to access the app after using it two weeks ago. I didn't even think about uninstalling and reinstalling. I think the app really does have its valid use, but I would never substitute an actual visit to the vet.

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Bethany
5/18/2015 06:27:08 am

No electronic means of communication can replace a doctor physically seeing, feeling and even smelling a pet, that is true. But in cases where I am not really sure what has happened is an emergency, and it would have been more disastrous to have torn down camp and left for parts unknown after dark with my entire fur family for something as non-emergency as a tick wound, a phone call or video chat can mean not having to make things worse.

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M. K. Clinton link
5/18/2015 02:20:28 pm

I am so glad that I have the Vet on Demand app before we take our road trip to Nashville.

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