Re: [pyrnet] Dry Skin?

[Kelly Haskins <lovemypyr@yahoo.com>]

Hi Shannon,
My pyr Mandy (4 yrs)was very itchy recently while we
were dealing with a couple of successive hot spots.
She had never had this problem before. I suspected
that she was allergic to something based on what the
vet had told me, but after treating her hot spots
(based on wonderful help from list members), she is
now doing great and not itchy at all. What seemed to
help immensely was putting her on a derm cap daily
(large breed size).It has essential fatty acids
(contains fish oil) plus a couple of vitamins. I was
told it might take a couple of weeks to see
improvement, but Mandy totally stopped scratching in
4-5 days once I started her on them. Has worked
wonders for us!
Let us know how Levi is doing.
Kelly & Mandy

--- Shannon Russell <smrussel@neoucom.edu> wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
> 
> My pyr Levi (about 3 yrs old) has been scratching
> quite a bit the last
> week or two.  No specific place just basically all
> over.  Does anyone
> have any ideas on what I can do to help him.  I do
> live in Ohio and the
> weather has been getting very cold lately and the
> heat in my house is
> very dry because of my allergies.  So far my other
> pyr (Allie) has been
> fine and not scratching anymore than normal.
> 
> By the way Rhonda, you are not alone in the broken
> finger department!  I
> took Levi into PetSmart a while ago and they had a
> new staff that was
> putting pig ears in the bin in front of the cash
> registers (they seem to
> think your dog will whine enough that you'll buy
> more stuff!)  Well
> since this person was new, and had never seen a Pyr,
> they were mighty
> surprised when Levi gave a very loud WHOOF!!!! And
> immediately took off
> running towards him.  This guy (who happened to be
> over 6 feet tall and
> probably weighed a good 200 pounds!) Threw the box
> of pig ears in the
> air, squealed like a sissy and took off running! 
> Well unfortunately for
> me I was trying to get a cart at the same time this
> all happened.
> Needless to say that when Levi ran, I was spun
> around and slid across
> the floor like it was an ice skating rink!
> 
> You would think that I got hurt when Levi spun
> around and dragged my
> across the floor but nooooo....  That big sissy that
> worked for the
> store was hysterical and I was trying to help him up
> from the floor when
> he elbowed me in the face and gave me a black eye
> and broke a tooth!
> And of course while this was going on Levi had his
> head happily buried
> in the pig ears!  So while Levi didn't actually do
> the damage I still
> whined at him when my eye looked like a rainbow and
> I had a chipmunk
> cheek for a week!
> 
> Thanks!
> Shannon (human) Levi & Allie (goofy pyrs), Boots &
> Misty (grumpy cats)
> and gus (Dizzy Turtle)
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