A lot of you know that both Wylie and Marcel get breakthru allergy symptoms here in Phoenix, when the pollens spike. They both have a Vet Derm, Marcel has had the allergy testing and shots, Atopica -- the whole nine yards.
Anyway, the other day I did a search for 'natural' remedies for dog allergies, or something like that - just to see if anything I didn't know about popped up. I came across this product called "Healthy GOO" - never heard of it before, has anyone else? It became more interesting as I was reading bc the premise of its success is somewhat similar to that which allergy shots is based upon. But, instead of giving shots, the product is given sublingually (called Sublingual Immunotherapy or "SLIT").
The other thing that intrigued me was that this is being studied at the UW-Madison Vet school - and you know how much I love that school! Well, I love that Dr. Schultz and his vaccine research, and what it's done for our kiddos. But I digress. My point is, the fact that UwMad has studied this gave me the impetus to look further.
After emailing w/ the site, and asking a few add'l questions - I decided to try it and will probably start this week. Btw, the person I emailed with at Healthy GOO was extremely responsive and helpful -- answered all my questions, super timely, informative etcetera.
It should be here any day, and I'll keep you posted. I wanted to post about it in case anyone wanted to read about it for their own dogs. I was originally going to post
after I'd done a trial -- but the initial trial you give your dogs on Goo should be
at least 90 days - so I didn't really want to wait in saying something, in case someone else wanted to try it. I'm pretty cautious when it comes to believing products work - but this one comes with the kind of data I need to hear in order to try it. I don't want to get my hopes up,
but I admit I'm kinda excited! 
I'm pretty fascinated by this stuff....I mean, look at how many posts we get here every day regarding a dog w/ allergies
. It's unreal. If this could help even a portion of those dogs, it would just be awesome.
It looks like I'm on their email list now (since I purchased it/signed up), and yesterday I was sent an email that said they're having a promotion related to their Facebook page. The email said there is a 10% discount right now, using the code "500LikeGoo" -- looks like it's good until 11/27. Btw, I'm not affiliated w/ Goo in any way...just interested in the product and hopeful it works.
This is their website:
Dog Allergies | Dog Food Allergies - Healthy GOO ?
And here is a direct link to some info regarding the work they've done w/ UwMad:
http://www.healthygoo.com/uploads/GO...ept%202010.pdf