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<DIV> we are probably expert on this issue, wish there were
good answers , but the truth is this , there are no right or
wrong answers, everything with itchy hounds is trial and error.
Maggie is my second hound with allergies, my first Basset Lucy, I was
totally clueless and did mega doses of preds for years until we damaged her
liver and then we refinanced our home so we could take her to a clinic up in
Michigan for liver enzyme treatments. well, now I have Maggie who has had
SEVERE allergies since the age of 2, we have done allergy testing 4 times
!!!!!!! two by blood and 2 by scratch test. we have changed food a
gazillion times and even home cooked for her, guess what?? she still
has bad allergies, she gets a bath every two weeks and takes extract ,
plus she was on Hydroxyzine which made her a complete Zombie,
so we now have her on 2 Benadryl three times a day. I home cook for
her sweet potatoes and venison. we ran out of venison, so she now
eats ELK which is the God Awful smelling meat you will ever cook,
actually makes me gag. it is now cooler & we are back on the deer road
kill list here in Maumee OH Hell Yes, I am the damn nut who goes out at 5
AM in my pajamas, cold windy, rainy and I'm hauling dead deer
carcass out of the expressway ditch covered in blood, hair and deer
pee !!!!!! and hubby wants me to explain WHY ???? did he marry me
?????? CAUSE I'M SO MUCH FUNNNNNNNNN !!!!!!!!</DIV>
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<DIV>we have good days and then we have bad weeks with Maggie, what works
this week, will back fire on your next week. It is hard, it is constant work to
try and make her comfortable, like my vet said " she will never
be normal, but we can try & make her life
COMFORTABLE. I use a cream on Maggie called ( Tritop ) it has
hydrocortisone in it, but it is topical, so it calms the itching</DIV>
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<DIV>Marlene mommy to Maggie & Annie</DIV>
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<DIV>PS dis me Annie. my mommy took me outside last night to
go potty, it very dark out, I don't like da dark, it scares me, so I wuz
doing my number, mommy calls it number ,it's just POOP, anyways der
wuz some kind of monster on my neighbors back porch, it scared me really
bad, I let out big sissy yelp and I run past mommy and Maggie and run fur
da back door. I aint nebber going back der again in da dark
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