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Originally Posted by dragonfly37

My Pem Corgi Einstein has been nipping and chewing on his paws for over 6 months now. He's already once scratched the fur off the back of both front legs. Now he's graduated to nipping at his back paws and I can see pink irritated skin through his fur. We took him to the vet and they ran some blood and allergy tests and came up with lamb, chicken,some grasses and possibly seasonal allergies. We had him at the vet for two weeks and when we brought him home the first 2-3 days he did not itch or nip at all and then started up with the nipping/itching again. While he was at the vet he ate the food he normally eats at home. SO my conclusion is it's either the weaved jute rug he plays on and/or dust. I'm going to start vacumming more frequently for the next month to see what happens and then put the rug downstairs to see if that works. If those two are not the culprit I don't know what else to do.


Anyone else here have Corgis with allergies? What are the symptoms/behaviours? How did you fix the problem? I feel so bad for our lil dude. : (


Thanks so much!

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Stacy

What food are you feeding? Food is always the culprit, but the vets never say that because they like to make money off of food alergies. If you are feeding a store brand food that is your culprit. Look at the first 5 ingridents. If Corn, Wheat, chicken/lamb by produts soy are in that first 3 listings then you have your culprit. Dogs cannot digest wheat or corn and it escapes by burning through the skin which is why your dog is getting hot spots on his feet which is very common. You need to change over to a high quality food found in independent pet stores. I highly recomment Canine Caviar, Innova, and Canidae will be your top qualitiy foods, you can try Wellness, but I'm not too supportive of that company since they keep changing their formulas. Look up the websites and see which food you like the best. I highly doubt that your corgi is allergic to lamb and chicken. I think what he really is allergic too is all the filler crap they put in store brand dog food. Good luck!