Poor pooch. She is allergic to anything but the Lamb and Rice food I currently feed her... it took us a looong time to find a food she was not allergic to. I noticed this morning that her nose is dripping. Not snot, but water. I feel so bad for her because I have allergies and mine have been acting up too.

Thank you for the Benadryl idea. I think I have some around here somewhere. Should I give her a new pill two or three times a day like humans take it?

The Lick Granuloma is right on target. She has the Elizabethan collar and knows to stop licking on command now because she knows that if she licks, the collar will go on and she hates that more than anything. I'm home all the time now, so I'm comfortable leaving the collar off as long as she's in the same room as me - which isn't too hard because she follows me around anyway. We've always done extended courses of anti-biotics because gettig rid of these is so darn hard.

I dug into my medicine cabinet and found about two weeks's worth of steroids. Perhaps we can get this under control immediately this year and she won't get as bad as she usually does. If I'm home I can spot the new ones immediately and get rid of it. She looked at me with gratitude this morning when I put some neosporin on it - it must have felt good.