Medications for Dogs on Boats or Cruising

Here we are loaded in the car ready to go to the boat and sail up the sunshine coast. Might just look like a car load of dogs, but there is also a ton of home-made dog food, toys, Kongs to slowly release food, a harness for each of us so we can be pulled out of the water safely, and our medicine kit.

When packing medications and supplies for travelling on your boat, take the following:

PROBIOTIC
Prevent or treat diarrhea
RX Biotic  is excellent and doesn't need refrigeration.

CLAY
Treat diarrhea
RX Clay helps whatever the cause of diarrhea, bacteria like Salmonella or protozoa like Giardai.

FLAX for BULK
Prevent constipation. Constipation and hard stools are a problem in pets that aren't eating well or pets that have gotten hot and dehydrated.
Missing Link is the best source of flax because it's sealed in nitrogen and has not formed harmful free radicals that are created whenever oils are exposed to oxygen.

MOTION SICKNESS
Prevent or treat nausea, vomiting, dizziness
Meclizine tablets or scopolamine patches

ANTIBIOTIC CREAM
Skin infections, scrapes, flea bites, wounds, burns
Silver Sulfadiazine

ANTIBIOTIC ORAL
Infections from ticks, such as Lyme disease, Anaplasma; respiratory infections, especially those that hang on and are difficult to shake; food-borne infection such as Listeria
Doxycycline

ANTIBIOTIC ORAL
Gut infection that doesn't clear up following clay and probiotics, such as reoccurring giardia
Metronidazole

ANTIBIOTIC EYE OINTMENT
Dogs that travel with their heads out the window often have eye irriations, If an infection develops, use an antibiotic effective against many different bacteria
Terramycin ophthalmic  or Polymyxin B

INJURY TRAUMA
If your dog falls, gets a leg shut in the car door, gets rolled down a hill,  give a homeopathic medication because it's safe no matter what other meds your pet is taking. Homeopathics come in liquids, pills, and injectable forms.
Traumeel

BLEEDING BRUISING & PAIN
For severe bleeding or deep bruises, this can be applied onto the injury or can be swallowed
Yunnan Baiyao

ARTHRITIS OR BONE & JOINT PAIN
If your pet outdoes itself and is so sore it cannot walk, rest, ice & elevation. Also use a good pet medication that is rather like aspirin. Take care not to give more than the recommended dose. More has the potential to be harmful.And, even the right amount has been known to cause kidney & liver problems.
Meloxicam, Piroxicam, Etogesic, Rimadyl

SPASM PAIN
With muscle spasm, use a homeopathic. The spasm can be muscle traction injury, an internal spasm such as when a kidney or urethral stone; colic, abdominal pain with diverticulitis, constipation or diarrhea. This is med helpful as you're waiting for treatment.
Spascuprel

CHRONIC PAIN
Nagging arthritis, chronic sciatica, try this homeopathic.
Zeel

STOMACH ULCERS
Stomach ulcer pain especially if taking Aspirin or Meloxicam
Sucralfate

SKIN WOUND ANTISEPTIC
Skin injuries with grit or embedded dirt. This can sting.
Hydrogen Peroxide

DISINFECTANT
To pour over the embedded fish hook before cutting the end off and pulling back through the skin. This also kills bacteria on skin, but it kills healthy skin cells, too, so don't use it if you can use soap & water.
Rubbing Alcohol Isopropyl

WHAT ELSE TO PACK IN PET MEDICAL KIT?
Take along:

• Gauze
• Q-tips
• Cotton balls
• Vet Wrap
• Scissors

My hope is that you'll pack a great medical kit for your dog or cat and never need a single thing. Enjoy the world without worry.