I am tending a neighborhood stray who had been injured in a fight. His biggest problem at the moment seems to be that the insects won’t leave him alone. Everything I’ve seen at the pet store is for dogs only.
I am open to natural recipes too, if anyone knows how to make them, but would prefer to have something I could put on the poor thing today. He’s scratching up a storm, and biting the fur off his tail. I’ve looked for fleas and haven’t found any, just some old scabs he keeps scratching open.
Bringing the cat indoors is not an option, unfortunately.
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our 6yo female Rhodesian Ridgeback suffers badly from midgies or some such thing constantly biting at her. No, it’s not fleas. We’ve done heaps of flea treatments, regular frontline etc, and can’t see any on her. Our other male dog does not get bothered at all. the other possibility is a grass allergy but I don’t think so. Anyone got any good ideas for treating this, either through diet or something else? Our vet told us to spray her with pest repellent but this is tiresome and she hates it, and it can’t be good for her on a twice daily basis.
She has a good diet and I feed her lots of chicken, rice and vegies. We do give them a little (high quality) dry food for our busy days, but generally I prefer to feed them food I prepared myself. I will remove all processed pet food from her diet and see if this helps.
"hives" would manifest as little red dots though??
"midgies" refers to those little bitey insects that are very, very small, like sandflies, only we’re not at the beach. she bites at her flesh constantly, and scrathes. I have tried an oil mix with lavender, tea tree and neem oils. See how that goes.
I think if it was a grass allergy there’d be a rash or something? there is no rash.