We've had an up hill battle trying to figure out our frenchie mix's allergies. He is already on medication for allergies but he had a major hive outbreak about two weeks ago and lost a lot of his fur and was covered in pus filled bumps (turned out to be a bacterial infection plus the hives but all caused from allergies).
We decided to go ahead a proceed with getting a skin allergy test done on him at this point. He was already being treated by a vet dermatologist but we really wanted to find out what we needed to change in our environment to make him feel better.
The allergy test took about two hours and with the number of things he is allergic to I'm really glad we got the test done. The staff at the office said that he was one of the worse cases they've seen this month and had a lot of unusual allergies.
He are the primary culprits: he is severely allergic to dust, dust mites and cats. And guess what we have? Dust and cat.
While we do our best to keep the house dust free, we are going to start dusting a bit more during the week instead of just the weekends.
Now the cat stays not much we can do about that. He is 13 years old and sully (our frenchie mix) loves him lol. Our vet dermatologist said that they don't see many dogs allergic to cats. Surprisingly Sully is not allergic to fleas, which the vet said was unusual. We sure do have a special guy on our hands.
It's kind of funny when we think back to it - when we brought sully home we did not have a cat. My husband gave Mongo (the cat) to his Aunt when he went away to Iraq and then Korea. when he came back from Korea my husband (then boyfriend) and I moved in together. Later we got Sully. His aunt had a few problems and no longer could care for Mongo so she told my husband that she was going to take him to a shelter. Sully was about 2 years old when we introduced him to Mongo and his allergies did start after he came to our home but we never put two and two together. I've never heard of a dog allergic to cats before!
Anyone else ever hear of a dog allergic to cats? I was laughing about it all the way home.
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We decided to go ahead a proceed with getting a skin allergy test done on him at this point. He was already being treated by a vet dermatologist but we really wanted to find out what we needed to change in our environment to make him feel better.
The allergy test took about two hours and with the number of things he is allergic to I'm really glad we got the test done. The staff at the office said that he was one of the worse cases they've seen this month and had a lot of unusual allergies.
He are the primary culprits: he is severely allergic to dust, dust mites and cats. And guess what we have? Dust and cat.
While we do our best to keep the house dust free, we are going to start dusting a bit more during the week instead of just the weekends.
Now the cat stays not much we can do about that. He is 13 years old and sully (our frenchie mix) loves him lol. Our vet dermatologist said that they don't see many dogs allergic to cats. Surprisingly Sully is not allergic to fleas, which the vet said was unusual. We sure do have a special guy on our hands.
It's kind of funny when we think back to it - when we brought sully home we did not have a cat. My husband gave Mongo (the cat) to his Aunt when he went away to Iraq and then Korea. when he came back from Korea my husband (then boyfriend) and I moved in together. Later we got Sully. His aunt had a few problems and no longer could care for Mongo so she told my husband that she was going to take him to a shelter. Sully was about 2 years old when we introduced him to Mongo and his allergies did start after he came to our home but we never put two and two together. I've never heard of a dog allergic to cats before!
Anyone else ever hear of a dog allergic to cats? I was laughing about it all the way home.
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, which by the way, she LOVES to try and catch.
I had skin testing 2 years ago, and out of 42 things I was allergic to 39 of them (including cats & dogs!!!). The shots have done wonders for me... are you guys going to start allergy shots?!!
Usually when they start the shots, it jumps starts the immune system so he won't develop more allergens. I hope they can figure out something soon... Keep us posted!!!
