She is about two and a half years old. Well we took her to the vet for her anual check up. They took blood and didn't find anything ... they say it may be a nervous habit but she still itching and scratching a lot ... It's just scratching, sometimes she will bite at the spot or other spot but not too much. I don't see any fleas ... we even looked with a magnifying glass ... just any opinions on what to do ? Thanks ...
Sweetash. Vets are not the brightest people in the world, believe me. If you were to ask your Vet how to house break your dog, to come, sit, down, stay etc. he/she would look at you dumb like. They diagnose, but beyond that they don't know nothing. Give your dog a good shampoo. Rinse her thorougly, then after drying her, take a good currie brush and brush her done vigorously! You'll be anazed at the amount of fur you'll find in the brush. By doing this, you're aerating her skin. That is, allowing air to get to it. If you didn't brush your hair for a month, I bet you'd be doing some scratching, isn't that right? Dogs have an under coat, which is something like down. When this down dies out it is like a mat not allowing any air to get to the dogs skin. When you brush her this will get rid of the dead down and allow air to get to her skin. This will definitely stop her itching and scratching. Brush her once a week real good. If this doesn't work, I'll kiss your *** in public! No disrespect intended. But I guarantee you, this will solve her problem. I hope that I have been of some help to you and your dog.
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Food or environmental allergies.
Bathe with an oatmeal based shampoo and condition afterward.
If her skin and/or coat seem dry a quality product such as Chris Christensen may help.
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Go to dogfoodanalysis.com. Pick out a 5 or 6 star food.
A single protein food or a protein she has not had before may help with a food allergy.
Grizzly Salmon oil
Brush daily with a stiff boar bristle brush (Walmart Evolve brand # 575 in the ethnic hair section) to remove dry skin and spread the oil that is there.
If environmental it could be anything from pollen, laundry detergent, damp grass, on and on.
Go to a different vet and have allergy testing done.
It could be allergies, dry skin or even OCD. How long ago what her annual check? She still could have fleas - you won't always see them. The only time you will see fleas is when there is an infestation.
pets question and answers,www.5d2d.com I would start with going to your vet and get either Frontline or Advantix. Do NOT use in combination with flea shampoo or flea collars. If after a few days she stops itching, great! Then you know it's fleas and you can treat your house for fleas. If she continues itching, you can try bathing her with an oatmeal shampoo. If that doesn't help, switch her food to an allergy free formula.
There is medication to help with the OCD, but I would try the above things first.
You could try using a gentle tea tree oil pet shampoo that has calming properties in its aromatic healing properties. We once had a Chihuahua who would get under the car and viciously scratch his top of his back sometimes raw ... and it was not fleas or ticks or ringworms ect. It was obnoxious BUT what i did was clip him and buy him pigs ears to occupy his apple dome head:)
good luck Oh another thing sometimes dogs will have little habits like pull a claw or lack affection.
She could have allergies, I'd go to a different vet.
Can't really say, it could be almost anything i guess, but i've only seen dogs do the biting thing where really irritated by fleas.
pets question and answers,www.5d2d.com Do you use the flee liquid in the tube, on drop on the back of their neck each month, kills fleas, larvae and eggs it's what we use and seems pretty good. Fleas can be extremely hard to see at times. They can jump off the animal and back on.
We get products from a neighbor who's a breeder, she gave us a good cedar shampoo, that fleas also seem to hate, i like it because it takes that dog smell off the fur, no one seems to mind it but me. I don ' t know about that nervous habit remark, especially if there's no reason for him to get nervous, such a crowd of ppl visiting, or sudden regular loud noises that weren't there before, seems to me if it were a habit you would have noticed or had problems with it in the past.
We usually find only summers bad for the fleas.
I find it funny the vet didn't make any suggestion of what it could be or things to try. Could the dogs skin be drier than usual, If he has a dog bed you haven't tried washing it with any new soaps, fabric softeners, used any freshening sprays on it, have you turned on the heat yet and is his bed close to a heat vent.
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That's really all i can think of, hope it stops soon, or at least calms down, i've seen my own dog go through it on rare occasions and it looks like a pretty miserable thing for them to have to put up with.
