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Take Your Animals To Ohio State...

If you have a serious issue with your pet or other animal and

• it can wait
• you are close enough
• it's a covered species

please consider taking your animal to Ohio State University's (OSU's) Veterinary Medical Center or a satellite office. See https://vmc.vet.osu.edu/ for more info on locations for companion animals, horses, and farm animals.

I am much closer to Michigan State University (MSU), but my experiences there over the years finally reached the point where I can no longer trust them.

My experiences at OSU were FAR superior in information from them, their listening to me, their responsiveness to calls and email (often ~1 hr turnaround on the latter), their clarity of vision with respect to why a given course of treatment would be followed, availability both pre- and post-surgery, and even in pricing.

I have to recommend NOT using MSU for being on the other side of these issues.
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my husband drove Buster there for his allergies
@LILY61 Nice! Was the treatment effective?
@SomeMichGuy it did some good. but not as well as i expected. he and i both were miserable when we moved to the sticks but we both got better with time. i had two really bad poison attacks and then it got less and less each time after. and then when i got better ...Buster got better. we might have killed off the nastier stuff
@LILY61 Poison? You mean poison ivy? Poison oak? Poison sumac?
@SomeMichGuy yeah, i am very allergic to sumac and Buster and i reacted to that and some other poisonous plant that i never identified. but it was everywhere
@LILY61 My understanding is that all three have the same basic oil (urushiol, I think...let's see...yes, that's it) which is the issue.

I bet poison ivy is your other culprit, because it's so ubiquitous...but with these, the oil in question lingers even after the plant dies...
@SomeMichGuy i now use that crap to wash my hands to get the oil off. but i am not allergic to poison ivy. if i am than it is so slight that i can't even tell. the poison in question makes my hands burn.