Itchies after being shaved
Thanks Lisa and Frankie |
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| I find just a cool bath and wiping them down with a rough cloth with the grain of the hair helps get any leftover hairs that are poking their skin. It is SO irritating to my own skin when I shave the dogs so I feel so bad for them and always rinse them off after shaving them. |
| I do that too. Just a quick wet down to get off all stray pokies and a good toweling. These guys seem to feel better after that. |
| I always shave, bathe, dry & shave again (to get all the stray hairs). Dogs never seem to itch but occasionlly with "flap" their ear leathers. |
| For X years in a row, Mulligan developed a bad case of the itchies with constant scratching that lasted for months after his springtime clipdown. Joan, our vet and I are baffles as to the cause. The clipping? Some chemical such as the blade oil or clipper cool/wash? Poison Ivy that we have locally? Soooo this year we haven't clipped him down. At least not yet. No itchies. Yet. It is so nice having a dog that isn't scratching all the time. |
ChSheepdogs wrote: I always shave, bathe, dry & shave again (to get all the stray hairs). Dogs never seem to itch but occasionlly with "flap" their ear leathers. Me too. I figure if I'm shaving, I may as well bathe, they dry so much faster with shorter hair. And once the hair is dry, I can go back over and even out trouble spots. |
| Ron you could try giving him a good dose of antihistamine before you shave him.... prevent the flare up in the first place. |
| That's a good idea, Stacey. I don't know what this issue is, and I don't think that would hurt. Perhaps a second bath using oatmeal immediately after the grooming, too. One of the problems in dealing with Mulligan's itchies is that he doesn't scratch where it itches. He seems to not be very body self-aware. It is a different scratching than the scratching he does all summer after a clipdown. That's a kind of a lazy scratch around the shoulders. An itch caused by something obvious is different. We have to search him and search him and search him to find the problem. That's one of the reasons we like to keep him in short coat, for ease of finding the nasty little hitchhikers. For instance if a tick is biting him on the right side of the face, he'll scratch his head on the left side, the right side of his body, under his chin and maybe once in a while where the tick is. It doesn't seem as if that body part is itchy, it really seems like he just doesn't know where it itches. The oddest when he was scratching for a few days and we just couldn't figure out. He was scratching everywhere. No pattern. Top of the head, sides, face, belly, legs. Everywhere, and it was an intense scratch. Turns out the tick was biting him near the butt and when he scratched anywhere the motion of violent scratching was also putting pressure on his butt, thereby scratching the itch. LOL |
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