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Old 03-22-2008, 03:11 PM   #1
Marina
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Default Need Advice and to VENT!

Sorry this is probably going to be pretty long but you guys are always great and I need advice.

You guys have already been very helpful with advice on Chewys allergies and I went through with seeing a dermatologist. It cost me a weeks pay and i really got no comfort out of it but maybe it will all work out.

Basically as a recap... She has been shedding and then got what looked like chicken pox which turned into scabs and she has been non stop chewing on herself. So my vet recomended an emergency clinic not too far that has a variety of specialists.
When I described Chewys symptoms to the Doctor she took out a pamphlet that literally described the same thing i just told her in the same ordeer!! She has a staph infection of the skin.... so i said how did she get it... so she takes out another pamphlet that says that the # 1 cause of this infection is persistent allergies!!!! So i freaked. I should have looked into the itching months ago and could have avoided this but i thought it was just the usual yorkie itching thing. Anyway now she is on a week of anibiotics to kill the infection.

So on to the allergies....She said that according to the American Board or Allergists or whatever it is there is no reliable FOOD allergy test for animals. The test comes back with certain allergies but even when those are removed from the dogs diet they are still itchy. She only does allergy testing for 50 environmental allergies (dust, mold.etc). So i got that done.... even though i hve a feeling shes allergic to something in her new food.

Its hard to keep switching food all the time because a lot of the minor ingrediatents overlap in each food. So her solution is a hyperallergenic food with a protein she ha never eaten before. The protein we went with was Rabbit (EW ) i cant imagine feeding rabbit because i dont eat bunnies
The next problem is that my monkey will not touch dog food(esp. not a new one) unless there is a human food on top... recently i have been giving her about a tbs of chicken soup on her dry food and she eats all the dog food. NOW I WILL HAVE TO MAKE BUGS BUNNY SOUP!!!! The NEXT problem is that they dont really sell rabbit in brooklyn. Waldbaums, pathmark....those kind of stores dont have rabbit so i will have to find a specialty butcher... tough to do during tax season when i am in tax and am at work ALLLLL DAYYYYY!!!!!! I am off on sundays when most places are closed.

also, when i dont understand and maybe one of you can help me with.... I got a little upset when she told me the Brand of the food..... HILLS!!!!!! She was on hills when i got her and then found you guys and learned to look at the ingredients!! !It was all byproducts nd chemicals. The doctor claims she has never heard anything bad about hills and recomends it to every1.
When i acually got out to reception and the nurse wrote me a prescription for the food.... SHe wrote Royal Canine.... but i thought RC is available at pet stores??? Do you need a prescription?/

Sorry for such a long speach but i am confused, upset and irritated because it will take 3 weeks for th test results to come back...I am out too many hundreds of dollars for not feeling like there is a good enough resolution.

Also, shuld I really be switching the food if i dont know whether she is allergic to someting environmental yet??? She just went through a switch and seems to relly like Natures Variety.

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