Please make sure they do a test for yeast. Phoebe was diagnosed with everything under the sun but no one did a yeast test until I took her to Dr. Jan Hall at Guelph. Thousands of dollars, many vets, a few years and more than one time thinking it was the end of the road for her I took the advice of a breeder friend and treated her for yeast. Presto, she has been totally normal for several years now. What all the drugs did in those early days - well who knows if that has contributed to her current issue. At one time she was on an human anti rejection drug that was super expensive if I got it from the regular vet but cheaper at the university because they get so much of it. She does lick her feet when they are wet but not to the point of causing dermatitis and limping and she goes out willingly when it is wet out there - a real issue before as it made her feet itch. She had little hair left on most of her body, red inflammed skin, plugged pores, chronic ear infections and lip fold dermatitis and when she wasn't scratching she was chewing at herself. BTW, her yeast test came back as having slightly more yeast than normal but not enough that they would consider her "yeasty". I use Plush Puppy shampoo for sensitive dogs on her which I get from the dog show vendor. You can PM me if you want to know what the course of action I took with her was. My vet now uses it on her hard to treat cases with good success.
