Hi,
I recently adopted a sweet dog named, Shilo (about 2 years old - likely a german shepard/blue healer mix), and I had to get her rabies & distemper vaccines updated due to the request of the lady I adopted her from & the city I live in requires rabies vaccination. A few days after getting the shots she starts scratching & licking (mainly her tail, paws, belly, & ears) and shaking as if to get something off her at times. She doesn't do it a lot somedays & other days it's more frequent. I also started taking her to the dog park and the area I live in has a lot of dogs. At first I thought she had fleas, so I gave her a bath & started spraying this natural product on her before we go out that is supposed to prevent them. I've used a flea comb only a tiny bit and only on a very small part of her body. I vacuumed my entire apartment and washed the covers on the couch. I also started feeding her raw garlic since yesterday & ordered the Bug Off garlic supplement y'all recommend for fleas. I have yet to see any fleas on her or anywhere in the apartment. I even did a test to see if any of the black specks on her turned red when applying water & they did not so possibly just dirt from playing in the dog park (I read online this will apparently tell you if it's fleas if it turns red). I'm now wondering if she is having a reaction to the vaccines she recently got. She also moved to another city when I adopted her about an hour and half away from where she originally lived, so I thought it might also be an environmental allergy. And I changed her food to better quality recently as well. Any insight is appreciated as to whether this might be fleas, a vaccine reaction, or something else. Thank you!
@Dr. Jeff @Dr. Christina @Dr. Jean Hofve
I recently adopted a sweet dog named, Shilo (about 2 years old - likely a german shepard/blue healer mix), and I had to get her rabies & distemper vaccines updated due to the request of the lady I adopted her from & the city I live in requires rabies vaccination. A few days after getting the shots she starts scratching & licking (mainly her tail, paws, belly, & ears) and shaking as if to get something off her at times. She doesn't do it a lot somedays & other days it's more frequent. I also started taking her to the dog park and the area I live in has a lot of dogs. At first I thought she had fleas, so I gave her a bath & started spraying this natural product on her before we go out that is supposed to prevent them. I've used a flea comb only a tiny bit and only on a very small part of her body. I vacuumed my entire apartment and washed the covers on the couch. I also started feeding her raw garlic since yesterday & ordered the Bug Off garlic supplement y'all recommend for fleas. I have yet to see any fleas on her or anywhere in the apartment. I even did a test to see if any of the black specks on her turned red when applying water & they did not so possibly just dirt from playing in the dog park (I read online this will apparently tell you if it's fleas if it turns red). I'm now wondering if she is having a reaction to the vaccines she recently got. She also moved to another city when I adopted her about an hour and half away from where she originally lived, so I thought it might also be an environmental allergy. And I changed her food to better quality recently as well. Any insight is appreciated as to whether this might be fleas, a vaccine reaction, or something else. Thank you!
@Dr. Jeff @Dr. Christina @Dr. Jean Hofve
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