Originally Posted by
Annette47
It’s a tick-borne disease. The test came back positive in that she has been exposed (again, this happened 5 years ago too), but since it is SO common around here and most dogs clear it on their own they don’t usually treat it unless the dogs are symptomatic, which depending on which type they’ve got, can be either Lyme like symptoms (fever, joint pain, lethargy) or more subtle (periodic anemia - which is what they were checking Chloe for). Her platelet levels were fine so they think that she did get it but is throwing it off on her own so we’re not going to treat unless something changes.