Very itchy golden retriever puppy

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Since we got our puppy, he has been itching himself all over. The breeders we bought him from said they had treated him for fleas??
We have given him 2 treatments in a week ( frontline) but he is still itching.
Is it ok to give another treatment or should I be doing something else.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Tia.

Goldies are renown for skin allergies. It could be food related. Our problems certainly were. We switched to raw and our problems aside from a random hotspot now and again have disappeared.

If you think it could be fleas definitely look at getting a neem based shampoo and bathing him in that. Check out My Itchy Dog for the shampoo.

Stop with the frontline! Two doses in a week is way too much.

How old is the puppy?

Have you seen any fleas? Or flea poo?

Where is he itching mostly?

Have you bathed him?

Gluten intolerance?

I totally didn't register the 2 Frontline treatments! Please stop!! I doubt it's fleas unless you've seen the blighters!

Thank you.

We saw a flea on him yesterday. He seems to be itching mainly on his legs at the moment.
He is 12 weeks old and he is and has always been on a raw diet.

My lab has grass allergy, could it be that?

My vet says Frontline is not working in our area due to resistance, ask your vet about Syronghold or Advocate which have a different active ingredient.

Just wanted to say frontline doesn't work, advantage is better if it is fleas

OK. So you've seen a flea (and without meaning to be awful, you know it was flea? You've seen them before?).

If it was definitely a flea, then you need some of this www.animeddirect.co.uk/indorex-household-flea-spray-500ml.html?utm_source=pricecomparison&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googleshopping_free&utm_term=Indorex+Household+Flea+Spray+500ml&utm_content=107&gclid=CP74trXj878CFW-WtAodfhgAcA and you need to de-flea the house.

It's really unusual for a 12 week old puppy to have caught fleas - he can't have been out and about much yet because of his vaccinations; unless of course you have cats/other animals or he had them when he arrived.

It's also unusual for fleas to cause itching on the legs - it's more usually on the torso or head. Can you get hold of a flea or nit comb? That'd confirm things one way or another.

In that case I would definitely bath h in a neem based shampoo. I wouldn't want to be using any more chemicals than you already have on the pup.

Do you have cats?

Very helpful thank you.
Yes we have cats.

I combed him all over this morning with DC nit comb and didn't find anything.

Still itching though poor thing.

Could be an intolerance to beef? Quite common.

I would say at this age fleas should be ruled out before embarking on food/environmental allergies.

Have him seen by a vet and get some prescription flea treatments. Also get him wormed if you haven't already as fleas play host to part of the life cycle of tapeworm. I think you need to leave 2 weeks since the last frontline treatment before you use another product prescribed by your vet (in terms of spot on flea treatment). But you could give him something like capstar orally for now to kill the adult fleas. Treat the cats, also with a prescribed product. And consider treating the house too with a good house spray.

Was the breeder a good one? Intense itching so early in a pup's life makes me wonder.

I would want to try an antihistamine to see if that helps at this point, but you will obviously need input from a vet for dosage.

There's no doubt you need to see a vet to find out what's wrong - and it is possible that he's allergic to something you are feeding, even though it is raw.

My cocker (when he was a pup) used to itch all of the time, my mum thought it might be a food allergy, so I swapped his food. I asked the vet and he said that some puppies have very downy fur and it makes them itch and as they get older they grow out of it. I thought this was a load of cods wallop, but... As he has grown older he no longer itches.