Why the Proper Dog Allergy Treatment Makes Life Easier
May 18th, 2011 | 
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My wife and I like to help out the local no-kill animal shelter by fostering dog and cats (and sometimes puppies and kittens). Not only do we get the satisfaction of helping out a great organization that is running out of space, we all get to have fun with different animals. We are very fortunate that our Golden Retriever and Chocolate Labrador have good personalities for this and adapt well to their temporary friends. But there is a down side…
Sometimes when we get foster kittens and puppies, they are rescued through part of the network and then need to find a temporary place to live while they wait to be spade or neutered. Sometimes this can be a few weeks or sometimes months. Now the down side, recently every animal we’ve fostered has had fleas. Not just the ordinary variety where they bite one of our animals that have an active flea treatment and then die. No, these little buggers are immune to a lot of the conventional flea treatments.
This presents a bit of a dilemma and we’ve had to work hard to stay on top of it. Now you’re probably wondering what these fleas have to do with a dog allergy treatment. Well, my dogs (and a lot of others out there) are allergic to fleas. All it takes are a few bites and they get small, inflamed red dots in the area where they were bitten and it drives them crazy.
Since an adult flea can bite over 300 times in a given day, this can make them miserable. When dealing with a dog flea allergy, its very important to recognize that your dog’s inflammation, scratching, licking and even chewing are probably all related. If allowed to progress, a flea allergy can cause other seemingly unrelated symptoms like dog ear infections and dog hot spots.
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Tags: Animal Shelter, Chocolate Labrador, Dog Hot Spots, Flea Allergy, Flea Treatments, Fleas, Foster Kittens, Great Organization