<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">I have heard good things about Temaril-P and am going to see if Foxy might be put on it. Per other posts, I've been working on/with Foxy (a GGBR foster) for about 6 months now. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">I am by no means an expert--there are others on this list who really ARE allergy experts--all I can share is that, with Foxy, it has been a complicated process. Because she is a foster, it just isn't responsible to spend a ton of money on her for allergy testing, so we've been focusing on food and on external triggers.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">She is on Royal Canin's blue bag formula that's supposed to be totally neutral in terms of allergens. Foxy eats it well, although I have to segregate her from Claire the Trembling's salmon and sweet potato kibble. Like any hound, Foxy wants whatever everyone else has. <br>
<br>That seems to have helped. It also helped that I noticed, quite by accident, that she was broken out after going out into my back yard and into the grass. I think dust may also be a trigger, but that is harder to track. I wipe her down every time she comes in from the back yard--it helps.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">We also give her 50 mg of Hydroxazine 2x a day, morning and evening. That seems to help.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">
She was on shots (antibiotics, apparently) that helped a lot, but hasn't needed a shot for almost 2 months now.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">
All I can say, again, is that it is a struggle and an ongoing detective story. Several other basset owners have told me that allergy testing has helped a lot in figuring out what the triggers are. I leave it to them to tell their stories.<br>
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