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Last Ditch Effort
Jan 23, 2011
Robby and I are at our last leg with Trouble. He’s clearly miserable but he’s just not getting better. We’ve talked to several different consultants and haven’t heard anything that we haven’t tried. It’s frustrated beyond on else, especially when you’re dealing with this type of situation and honestly I doubt a consultants directory would help and I certainly don’t think consultants for hire will do the trick either.
So we’ve resolved to trying out other methods that might work. We need to make a run to PetCo and get a Comfy Cone to prevent him from turning his neck to lick, some leg warmers so he can’t get at his legs and then lastly baby socks secured with duct tape to pad the scratching he’s doing. It’s a last ditch effort, but it might work.
When you’re dealing with a dog with severe allergies that continues to make things worse, but techniques do you employ? Do they work?
Jan 23, 2011
Can the vet not give him a shot of some kind? We had a dog that had severe allergies and would literally scratch/lick until her hair fell out. It was horrible. The doctor had to give her monthly shots of a steroid and then we tried another medicine we had to give her everyday. Despite the hassle of giving meds everyday, it seemed to work for her. We also bought a special medicated shampoo that worked with the scratching as well. Have they even diagnosed him with anything or are they just saying that its a generic allergy? She had a bad allergy but we had no idea what it was to since it wasn’t to plastic or anything of the such. At first, they thought it was an allergy to her food bowl that was plastic so we swapped to stainless steel bowls and that made no improvement. Is it always this bad year round or certain times of the year does it get better/worse?
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