Hi everyone, I'm new (as of today) and I need some help for my four year old Yorkie Molly. For the first two years with us, Molly had absolutely no issues. She always had a gorgeous coat of hair, never itched and we never seemed to have any troubles. About two years ago she began "itching and licking" constantly. We took her to the vet and he told us it was allergies. He gave us the options and we ended up trying some type of steroids (I believe it was prednisolone or something like that). She seemed only a little better but we stayed with the treatment for a good two months to give it time to work. The only thing that came from that treatment was constant urination and (I suspect) the eventual formation of a small stone in her Bladder. She was then turned to Atopica but would randomly vomit up her food every other day so we had to stop using that. She then went to the food diet to rule out food allergies. Molly is a very picky eater and it all started around the time we had her spayed that she started refusing her dog food. She currently only eats things like special dog food to help with the Bladder stone and boiled chicken and rice. The allergies have gotten so bad that we avoid at all costs taking her out until we figure out the cause (since we have NO clue what this is).
I wash her in room temp to slightly colder water to avoid aggravating her skin. We have special allergy shampoo and leave on lotion from the vet that we try but it all seems to be in vain. I will attach a few pictures to show the extent of her discomfort. I'm at a loss for words and my only hope is that someone on here has gone through this and has some other course of action because the vet has all but let us down.
Her MAIN issues seem to be starting near her hind area working its way up her sides. She licks pretty much all of her hair off the front and back legs and she scratched a very good portion off of that side and rear area. She even has red marks from scratching under her front "armpits" so to speak. Any help would be amazing at this point. I'm going out tomorrow to pick up Marigolds because I was told boiling three Marigolds in one cup of water, letting it cool and applying it to her hot spots would ease her discomfort
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Thanks for reading and sorry the post was a little lengthy and that there are links here instead of being embedded .. I'm still trying to figure my way around the site. Thanks again.
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