<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I am not a vet. Far be it from me to countermand any vet.</DIV>
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<DIV>That said, I don't happen to agree with what your vet said. When my bassets get itchy under their arm pits I use gold bond powder, as does everyone I know and mostly that solves it. I have used hydrocortison cream too, and that also worked.</DIV>
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<DIV>I don't buy the fleas you can't see thing. I'm thinking fungus (common on bassets, the gold bond kills it as does the hydrocortison) or maybe mites like Charlie has.</DIV>
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<DIV>But, I'm not a vet, I'm the clueless momPerson with 3 bassets. LuLu never ever itches ever and she doesn't care.</DIV>
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<DIV>Snoopy always itches, always and he gets a bath once a week and I watch for red itchy spots and treat them and at this time he has NONE and no bald spots either.</DIV>
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<DIV>Gracie started off as itchy as Snoopy but weekly baths and applications on her red spots have cleared her right up.</DIV>
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<DIV>So good luck from the clueless momPerson with various degrees of itcy bassets.</DIV></div></body></html>