Some dogs have ‘allergies’ – itchy, flakey skin, ear infections, smells – those ‘allergies’ can be taken care of with raw diet or one of the better kibbles but then there are ALLEGIES. Environmental ones. They happen middle or late August and last the first few weeks of Sept year after year.
These allergies don’t respond to changes in food (other than lessening some) and even benadryl isn’t effective. Your vet will want to give them prednisone and yeah, that could work but it also stays in their organs forever and ever so i won’t even go there.
In my dogs, Gizmo & Nikos I’ve seen it the last 5 years (thats how long i’ve had them) and same thing end of every august, they chew themselves pretty raw, Nikos losing the hair around his eyes even. I went nuts the first 2 yrs of this happening, even going so far as to use advantage on Gizmo thinking he was still allergic to fleas even tho i know he had none. It’s not a flea or food allergy.
I started asking people if their dogs had the same problem and YES a lot DID!!
I’ve gone the homeopathic and alternative ways – Benedryl (works some) and i foudn that TRAUMEEL and Apis Melifica from the health food store works the best. I get both in liquid (absorbed by the body faster) and put them in a spray bottle so i can squirt it in their mouths and on their itchies easily and in their food and on pieces of bread as needed.
They are lower to the ground than us and the environment AFFECTS THEM i think faster and more severely than us.
A couple of clients also have dogs with this yearly reaction so that’s why i’m writing about it. Most have purebreds (Gizmo is too altho a puppy mill dog) but Nikos is a mix and the only mix i know of so far to be so affected altho mixes are suffering the same as purebreds on shitty commercial foods.
I’m also writing because maybe we can’t ‘fix’ everything and to let others know you are NOT ALONE with your dog’s problems. If we talk about things that our dogs do, things that affect them, things we see in our dogs, maybe we wouldn’t be feeding the $4 billion dollar pet industry so well for no results?
