biancalouise78

Well I am not going to put Hondo on the cortizone anymore...he is just tired all of the time and seems a bit depressed. We bought him and his brother one of those outdoor, above ground beds (not sure what you call them), and they have both been on them ever since. So hopefully that helps. We have not used fertiliser on the ground there. I am thinking the wandering jew may have been there for a long time, so I would say it would still be in the dirt. If this above ground bed thing doesn't work, I am going to have to fence off the areas. Hopefully it does!

Hondo has never had issue before either, until this summer. The vet said that allergies don't usually come up in dogs until 2 years of age. Within a month of turning 2, Hondo came up with the nasty rash.

Hi Cactus, We haven't changed anything around Hondo lately, only thing is that the weather is hot, so he sleeps in the dirt or under a tree a lot. We have checked for wandering dew under there but nothing. He sleeps on bare dirt. My partner is going out today to buy an above ground outside dog bed and will put it in the shade on top of the dirt where he normally snoozes. Natural remedies...I read that omega 3 is good for them. I work at Heinz, who produce Greenseas so thats no problem in giving him tuna most days. We have an Elizabethan collar, but being a Ridgeback, he is very flexable, and can still just reach the sores with his toungue. They are just near his tail, but on his thigh muscle.

Hi, Symptoms my Ridgeback is experiencing is that he lost all hair on his underside. Initially he had open sores...and it hurt for him even to walk sometimes. His underarms were scabby with no hair. His inside ear flaps were scaley, and he had a slight scabbiness around his mouth where his whiskers come out of. So the vet gave him antibiotics and cortizone. I don't like giving him cortizone though, it knocks him around a bit. You can get a blood test to try to determine the alergy, but it cots about $400, and it is not conclusive. The vet also said he could be allergic to grass! That would be bad. He now only has the sores on his thigh area on both sides. He keeps them fresh by licking them. I don't know how to get him to stop short of putting a nappy on him! Band aids don't stick to his fur...and I can't very well cover his bits and pieces!

Oh I thought it was wandering dew. It comes up on my web search as that. I have not heard of paspalum. Will look it up thanks.

My 2 year old Rhodesian Ridgeback has been suffering from an allergy to something in the garden. We thought it was Wandering Dew (which we found a bit of)...but now that we have gotten rid of it, he still has sores on him. The Vet keeps wanting to put him on Kortizone, and I don't want to do that anymore. Does anyone know of any creams etc that may help the sores heal? It doesn't help that he keeps licking them.