Fasten your seat belt....

and please keep you hands and feet inside the car at all times. Welcome back to the allergy roller coaster! So after all the hoopla with the mange stuff we are back to thinking our baby just has allergies. We finished the process for taking care of the mange and while he was much better he was still itchy. We considered taking him to a dermatologist but they told us he had to be off benedryl for three weeks. After not having benedryl for three days he had scratched himself bloody under his chin and elbows. It was not pretty! He got some special shampoo, lotion, antibiotic, and a light prescription antihistamine. After two weeks he is cleared up again and looking pretty.

Somewhere along the way we switched his food again. Right after we switched his food last time the manufacturer changed the ingredients in their food. The changes seems to benefit their bottom line more than the animals. All there dogs had bad reactions to the new formula so we yet again did more research and found something else. He is now on a whitefish and potatoes type food. He is eating better than I am although I dont think he has food allergy. Even the vet is now convinced he has an air born allergy. The new food may not be necessary but its good for him either way. We made the mistake and ran out of food on Sunday a couple of weeks ago and were forced to try and find something at the local pet store still on his "diet". Have you ever tried to find a dog food without ANY chicken in it? After almost an hour of reading every bag in the store an employee rounded up some vegetarian food with no wheat or corn. He only had to eat it one night thankfully.

The last few weeks our boy seems to be getting a bit more ornery. He has eaten another chair in the living room. He is not listening as much to commands. It seems like he thinks about things before doing them. Like he has choice? We've been putting him in his cage more at night because he has been waking us up in the middle night for no apparent reason. It wouldnt be so bad if he wasnt waking us up by pouncing on our chest. We have decided it is time to have him neutered.

Time for a funny moment. I hear some neighbor kids talking like they were in the driveway or something so I open the front door stepping outside and closing the door behind me. Two kids around ten years old or so are standing there and give me a spiel about wanting to walk my dogs. Without saying a word I crack open the front door and Dozer and Haden stick their heads out. Both the kids jump back and their eyes get real big. I start to tell the kids they should try someone with smaller dogs but get cut off. We hear Suesse barking and running towards to the door and one kid looks at the other and says "lets get out of here". The two quiet big dogs kind of freaked them out but the ten pound loud mouth miniature schnauzer scares 'em off. ;-)

As of last week Dozer is about 104lbs. He didnt want to stand still and scale was going from 104 to 106 so we'll just say 104 for now. This pic was taken yesterday.