Dog Allergies

Does My Dog Have A Skin Allergy, Cushing’s Disease, Or Worse?

Over the last 6 months Annie (pictured at right) has been in, what we thought, was a simple aggravating battle with skin allergies. Just another annoying case of dog allergies that often plague our pets, right?
Her symptoms at various times were:

chewing herself, primarily around her rump
dandruff […]

Dog Allergy Shots - Hyposensitization

Years ago when I was a kid my parents send me to an allergist to get allergy shots. This was an effort to cure mold, mildew and ragweed allergies.
Now as a ‘parent’ of Annie I am tempted to try allergy shots to cure her dog allergies. So just as people have this treatment, so can […]

Vegetarian Dog Food

Recently, as in the last 12 month or so, our dog has developed really painful and annoying itching, scratching, chewing and skin rash issues. During this time we have tried medicated shampoos, endless courses of antibiotic treatments, steroid therapy, and now vegetarian dog food.
We arrived at this new food experiment during research in traditional dog […]

Dog Elimination Diet

Annie had been scratching like crazy. She was trying so hard to get to the base of her tail that she was spinning around in circles!
We had heard that there was a process called an elimination diet that would help determine if the food she was eating currently would be causing her allergies. During our […]

Dangerous Foods For Dogs

Annie loves treats and like most people with dogs we enjoy giving them to her. We have cooked her dog food when we thought she was suffering from allergies and needed to get her away from store bought cans. We couldn’t help but think that there were foods that we should not be feeding her. […]

How Did My Dog Get Allergies?

Like many ailments dog allergies are generally often genetic or inherited.
The first year a typical dog with allergies starts with a short period of biting and chewing . This may be mild and hardly noticeable - at first. With repeated exposures to the offending allergens, the dog gradually experiences prolonged periods of discomfort and the […]

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