Hello, for over a year my dog has had a terrible itching problem. She's a little white dog, part bichon & part poodle and apparently they are the worst for these cases. I've taken her to the vets so many times over the past year+, they've run countless tests, given her a variety of medications and we've changed her food to a hypo-allergy food (Orange bag from the vets, she's been on that since at least May).
A few weeks ago I took her back in because I thought she might have flees. She constantly was chewing herself all over from the back, legs and butt. I used revolution on her all summer and now their changing it to a new one. They didn't find any fleas but the spots resembled that she was biten. I thought it would've been from when we borded her or groomed her for the week we went to Niagara Falls for our wedding but that was over a month ago and there's no fleas on her. They also gave me a steroid to give her to help control her allergies for a week or two which seemed to help early on but did nothing as we eased her off.
Its at the point now where shes constantly biting when she's not sleeping. I have to keep a cone on her head for I'd say 60-80% of everyday and she's just not the same dog anymore. She seems depressed and obviously in a lot of discomfort.
It's bad and I don't know what other options we can do. Should I take her to a different vet for a 2nd opinion? I spent thousands on her last year and to be honest my patience have run dry as I know she's very uncomfortable throughout the day.
I'd rather her go back on her old food, eat rawhide bones again and enjoy life because for now this hypo-allergy stuff has done nothing for her at all and she's been on it for 4-5 months with zero treats or bones.
Any help is sooooooo much appreciated.
- Jason
