Rocky is itchy!! *Update on post #28!*

[chocolatepuppy]

I thought you could still get it in the winter. Not sure. Regardless, Benadryl might help the itch. My Lacey has taken it as well as my RB Mandy. They took 3 pills throughout the day and weighed 70 and 90 lbs. I hate to tell you to give him something but if he's miserable itchy,maybe it would help. Maybe someone else will come on and offer some advice.

[kallisto4529]

benedryl is the best thing until you can get him to the vet, that is what i had to give my cockers when they would get stuff that put a rash on them, and the vet actually reccomends it, my cockers were at the most 35lbs, so i only gave them one.. hope he gets to feeling better.

[critter crazy]

Arghhhh...!!!! Whay does tis stuff always happen on the weekends??? I am going to try teh benadryl, and see what happens. It seems that the worst areas, are just inside his back legs, and the back of his rear legs.

[applesmom]

The emergency animal clinic can tell you over the phone what dosage of benadryl to give a dog his size.

[borzoimom]

I didnt see this until this morning, so I am assuming you got the dose. Also with a large chambered heart breed especially, the dose really does need to come from a vet.
Let me ask you something- do you use carpet powders? Or shampoo on the rug, or even floor cleaners or polish. My shepherds several of them were allergic to " Shine bright" type mop on cleaners. If rocky was wet and laid on the floor, it could have gotton on his belly etc. Also I am sure you do not use cedar type bedding as that causes alot of skin allergies as well.
I am sure he will be just fine- and letting the vet be " the bad guy" at this point is probably a good idea.

[critter crazy]

I didnt see this until this morning, so I am assuming you got the dose. Also with a large chambered heart breed especially, the dose really does need to come from a vet.
Let me ask you something- do you use carpet powders? Or shampoo on the rug, or even floor cleaners or polish. My shepherds several of them were allergic to " Shine bright" type mop on cleaners. If rocky was wet and laid on the floor, it could have gotton on his belly etc. Also I am sure you do not use cedar type bedding as that causes alot of skin allergies as well.
I am sure he will be just fine- and letting the vet be " the bad guy" at this point is probably a good idea.

I have not given him any benadryl yet, i am just not sure about it. I have been using anti-itch sprays which seem to be helping some. I have wooden floors, and concrete. so no carpet shampoos here. no cedar bedding either. they spend most of their time downstairs in the basement, as that is where i spend all of my time, as we are still working on the upstairs. i was thinking maybe dry skin, as we have a woodstove, but wouldnt that effect, more than just his back leg area? I tried last night to have hubby distract him, as i ried to lift that huge fluffy tail to get a look at his back legs, adn all i can see is wet fur, where he has been licking.
the only things that we have done since Rocky has been here, is treated with frontline, been bathed, gone to vet for his Rabies vac.. other than that, nothing has changed in the 3 weeks since he has been here. he sleeps on the same bed, I havent used any chemicals on the floor. I am just lost??

[borzoimom]

Well frontline doesnt cause this and unless you used a flea shampoo, which I know you didnt, that doesnt make any sense either as far as a reaction. I am lost as well.. let me know what the vet says.. hmmm..
If he was mostly a outside dog, coming in with a woodstove ( I know because I have one) I put water on the stove in a woodstove cast iron pot.. Maybe the excessive licking just aggrevated it..