Recent content by Chaleen Cropper

We actually only bathe her once every other month and mainly to get the extra hair off of her. It seemed that she would dry out more and the scratching would increase if we bathe her frequently. If she had it her way though she would be in water all the time, she LOVES water!

We use a steam mop thanks to all of our wood and tiled floors. I was also thinking about the carpet that is in the rooms. Previous tenants had cats (we cleaned over an inch of hair off of the window sills when we moved in) and maybe there is embedded hair and who knows what else in there. The...

We did chicken a couple of years ago, but she had a bad reaction and that is why we switched her to salmon. We haven't tried anything else though.

I did read the article and started her on Benedryl. That was the first time I had heard you could use that. I haven't seen any improvement yet, but it has only been three days. We don't give treats because we have never found one that didn't make her sick (very sensitive stomach). She is...

We have had Lula for 5 years and 4 of those years have been nothing but skin allergies. We have done the skin test (nothing we didn't know already), done several different medications, changed food, skin scrapings, got rid of the cat, and many more supposed remedies that did nothing. We do go...

She is about 65 lbs.

We were told that our Lula was allergic to our cat among other allergies.

As you can see Lula loves to sleep. There is Tink our tortoise. We do have separate them because Lula is super jealous and has tried to kill her a couple of times. Good thing she has bounced back chipped shell and all.

Hey, my name is Chaleen and I am a mom to four human children, a tortoise, and our awesome Lula. We rescued "Lue" from a family that was getting rid of her when she was a year old. I could not stand her name so it was changed to Lula. Five years later she is well apart of our family. She is lazy...