She’s been scratching since January. We’ve upgraded her food, bathed her, given her supplements, took her to the vet. The vet thinks its a flea allergy. We have her benedryl per the vet. No help. Vet prescribed a different antihistamine. Very little help. She’s had 2 hot spots since she’s been scratching. We gave her advantage 2 months ago and frontline this month. She just keeps SCRATCHING and BITING herself. What else could be going on??!!

My dog has been itching for a couple days now. I thought it was from him being in my uncle’s pond, so I gave him a bath with oatmeal shampoo. I am in the process of switching his food to Wellness dog food because I heard that it hs very low allergens. Could it be allergies? If so, what can I do to make him more comfortable? I know its not fleas, he is on Frontline.

I am trying to decide on a breed or mixed breed of dog to get. I just lost my Miniature American Eskimo which was areally good dog, but a yapper. I am looking for a breed that is:
Under 30lbs,
Great with kids
Great with strangers
Isn’t prone to bad health (flea, food allergies are ok)
Is really easy to train
Isn’t a huge barker.
Preferably likes to go for jogs, but not a must
Good with non canine pets (ferret, mice, parrot, cats)
I considered a Puggel, but pugs and beagles both seem to be prone to heath issues. I want a dog that can live a long time and be a companion to my 4 year old only child. We are very active outdoors but calm indoors. Taking long walks/jogs through the park and spending lots of time with family. I would also like the dog to be a therapy dog for abused foster children (my moms foster kids). I already tried several dog breed selectors and got results I knew from personal experience weren’t too accurate. I can’t spend more than $300 so no rare breeds.

I have checked my dogs frequently and they do not have any fleas or flea residue. My one dog is 6 months and the other is 2 years. I have bathed them with 3 types of shampoo and then just with water. 1 of the shampoos had oatmeal to it. They really have never itched until last weekend. They got into poison ivy b/c my fiance and I got it from them. They also where swimming in a small lake and again at the Lake of the Ozarks. We went swimming with them at the Lake of the Ozarks and did not have any problems on our own skin but at the smaller lake they went in without us. It slowly has gotten worse and of course it is a weekend and the best times to go to the vet around here is during the week or vet er on weekends. What can I do in the meantime to relieve or stop the itching? What can it be? Can they get poison ivy themselves? Also they have been eating the same food for a long time now so i don’t thinks its a food allergy unless they just developed it… I feed them all natural nutro.

I am honestly curious about this. I have always heard that onions are deadly to dogs and you should NEVER give them to your dog.It hought the same about garlic, but a while ago I heard that some garlic can be helpful with fleas and allergies, and that some give garlic to their dogs all the time.
but I was just looking up some things poisonous to dogs, and there was garlic on the list.
Can some dogs handle garlic and some can’t? is it just UNCOOKED garlic that is dangerous?
Please no idiotic answers. be civil please.