dog scratching

Its is quite irritating and a sad feeling seeing your dogs scratch all the time. If it’s painful for you to watch, just imagine what your pet might be going through. So, the first thing you must do is, find out the cause of scratching and eliminating it as soon as possible, so you can provide your pet with some relief. Here, are some common causes of dog scratching:

• Flea infection: flea infections or flea allergy is quite common in dogs. Dogs and Cats needs to be safeguarded against this. As the direct result of flea allergy is that, dog scratches himself too much. Thus, it is very important to get your dog rid of all the fleas. Give proper pet drugs for treating flea allergies.
• Environmental changes: many times dogs can react to airborne allergens like house dust, pollens, molds and dust mites. Such a reaction is called as atopy. If your dog is atopy infected he will surely scratch his face and ears. Also, he will lick and chew the feet.
• Nutritional allergy: at time due to improper diet or nutritional imbalance causes nutritional allergies. Inferior quality of dog food may cause skin allergies which result in dog scratching. Food allergy can also happen due to change in the dog food quantity or brand.
• Scabies: sarcoptic mange mite causes extremely pruritic skin conditions on your dogs or cats. Lesions can be observed on ankles, ear and elbows. If these symptoms are observed, dog must be given bath.

Recommened Products

You can use below products to help relief your pets from scratching. These are over the counter, non-prescription flea and tick control medicines.

Frontline Plus	K9 Advantix for dogs	Advantage Flea for Dogs
Advantage Flea for Cats	Revolution for Cats	Revolution for Dogs