Treats & Chews
Probiotics
Joints
Dental
Senior Dog
See All
I've been lurking on this forum for almost a year and I've never posted anything like this because honestly, every time I got excited about a product it ended up being another waste of money. But I have to share this.
If your dog can’t stop scratching and licking themselves…
Their paws are chewed up, their coat is full of bald spots…
Even though you’ve already spent hundreds, maybe thousands, at the vet.
Grab these two things and toss them.
First, medicated shampoo.
Here's something most people don't realize…
Shampoos don't stop the itch problem, they actually make it worse.
Imagine washing your face with dish soap…
That dry, stripped feeling? That’s what happens when you use shampoos on their sensitive skin.
It strips away the protective barrier…
Which allows bacteria and allergens to get direct access to your dog’s skin, creating even more irritation.
But honestly, allergy meds might actually be worse.
Everyone thinks Apoquel or Cytopoint are the ultimate solutions, and in theory they should be.
But here’s the thing…
It's not that they don’t work, it's the side effects that terrify me.
See, most allergy meds shut down your dog’s immune system.
That's why they can be so effective, and so harmful at the same time.
They mute the itch signal, but don’t do anything to fix the root cause.
It’s like ripping the batteries out of a smoke detector while there’s a fire going on.
The alarm goes quiet… but the house is still in flames.
So when you stop the meds, the itch comes back, often stronger than before.
Even worse, shutting down their immune system can increase the risk of infections and other health problems…
And they’re incredibly expensive long term.
Not worth it if you ask me.
I've groomed hundreds of itchy dogs over the last few years, and they're the ones that worry me the most.
Raw paws, chewed-down coats, even a plastic cone that keeps them from tearing at their own skin…
I'd do what I could.
A gentle bath, clean them up, send them home looking better.
But I knew by the next visit, the itching would be back… along with the hot spots.
I was sick of watching dogs suffer while their owners ran out of hope.
So I started looking for an alternative solution.
That's when I found Dr. Randy Aronson, a holistic vet who’s been helping itchy dogs over the last 40 years.
And he had a completely different approach.
It's not a drug… It's not a shampoo…
Dr. Randy helped develop a spray that's completely different from anything we'd tried.
It's a simple daily ritual that does two things…
First, it flushes the trapped allergens out of the skin, the actual splinters driving the itch.
Then it seals the skin barrier so they can't get back in.
Stopping the itch at the source, then shutting the door behind it.
His ritual is 100% natural, and only takes a few seconds…
Seven all-natural skin-barrier ingredients at real, clinically dosed amounts — not the trace amounts you get in drugstore pet sprays.
It goes directly on the skin so it skips the whole digestion problem entirely.
It doesn't build any tolerance the way Apoquel did.
And it doesn't cause dependency.
You can stop whenever you want without him going right back to scratching.
They have a 180-day empty-bottle guarantee, and I'll be honest, that was the only reason I tried it.
After some of my clients had wasted $1000+, I couldn't stomach asking them to spend another cent on something that might not work.
But $25.50 a bottle with a full six-month money-back guarantee?
I figured we had nothing to lose except maybe finding the thing that actually worked.
So I decided to give it a try with one of my clients…
A terrier mix named Daisy, who'd been scratching herself raw for over a year, and was full of bald patches.
Her owner had changed her food three times, and was considering giving her Apoquel…
So I told her to try this simple ritual first.
Two weeks later, Daisy’s coat was filling in, the redness had calmed, and her owner told me she was finally sleeping peacefully through the night.
I now recommend this to all of my clients with itchy dogs…
Many say this is the one thing that actually worked.
But after watching so many dogs suffer, I knew I had to share this with as many people as possible…
I shared the link below where you can try Dr. Randy’s 5-second skin sealer.
And you can put it to use right from the comfort of your own home.
Just tap or click here to see how it works.
You don’t have to watch your dog suffer, or scratch themselves raw anymore.
Or waste money on shampoos, medication, and injections that only hide the problem.
This helps dogs finally stop that constant itch…
And wag their tails from pure relief.
You can make that happen for your pup, too.
Just click the link here, and see how you can relieve your dog’s chronic itching in seconds.
It could save your dog from years of discomfort.
You can keep using things that were never designed for what's actually happening under your dog's fur.
Or you can try the one thing that finally goes after all three causes at once.
The guarantee means you're risking nothing except maybe finding the thing that works.
This really does work.
Here’s where I got mine →
Let me know if you have questions. I'll answer everything honestly.
— Amanda
Thank you so much for posting this. I've been on this forum for over a year and honestly most posts just make me feel more hopeless about our dog. This is the first one that actually gave me some hope. Saving this whole thread.
#3
Hey Devon, I actually got an email from Amanda about this post — I like staying in touch with the groomers and dog parents who trust me with their pets.
Great question, and I completely understand the skepticism.
I've spent 40+ years treating chronic skin conditions in dogs.
Here's the core difference.
Apoquel and Cytopoint work by suppressing the immune signal that tells your dog's brain "this itches." That's genuinely useful for fast relief, which is why vets reach for it so often.
But here's the limitation most owners are never told: neither one does anything to the actual skin barrier underneath. The barrier stays cracked. Allergens and bacteria keep getting in. The medication is just muting the alarm, not putting out the fire.
That's also why so many dogs need higher doses over time, and why the itch comes roaring back the moment you stop — you've removed the thing that was masking the damage, and the damage was never repaired.
K9 Soothe works through a completely different pathway. It delivers a flavonoid complex directly to the skin that targets the cracks in the barrier itself and calms the histamine flood at the source, instead of just quieting the signal.
That's why there's no dependency and no rebound. You're not propping up a suppressed immune system — you're sealing the actual leak.
Two fundamentally different mechanisms. I spent years watching patients cycle on and off allergy meds before I understood why so many of them kept relapsing.
I explained how it works in more detail: here
Oh this gives me hope but my guy is 12 and his vet basically told us "that's just old dog skin, not much we can do about it at his age."
At his age is there even a point? Some days it feels like his skin has just given up.
#6
Gary, I completely understand that worry. I hear some version of it from clients almost every week.
But from everything I've learned from Dr. Randy, skin barrier damage isn't the same as permanent damage. Unless there's intense scarring, the skin is still capable of healing — it's just been fighting a losing battle this whole time.
The spray works by removing what's been attacking the barrier and giving it the conditions it needs to actually seal back up.
I can't promise anything for any dog at any age, but that's genuinely what the 180-day guarantee is for.
You try it. If it doesn't work, you get your money back. Six months to find out for sure, with zero financial risk, seems worth it to me.
And honestly? Senior dogs deserve to stop scratching just as much as puppies do.
I think if you read their page you'll get more clarity on whether this is right for him:
Please PLEASE tell me I don't have to keep her on this forever.
We stopped Apoquel after 18 months and the scratching came back WORSE than before we ever started. Whole hot spots we'd never even seen before.
I literally cannot go through that again. That whole situation still gives me anxiety just thinking about it.
Louis, no. And honestly that was the very first thing I asked Dr. Randy before I recommended it to any client.
Apoquel suppresses the immune response, so a dog's body sort of leans on it. When you stop, everything that medication was masking comes flooding back at once. That's a completely different mechanism from what K9 Soothe does.
It's not suppressing anything. It's sealing the actual barrier that was letting allergens through in the first place.
Once the barrier's rebuilt and the skin's calmed down, most of my clients scale back to a few times a week for maintenance instead of stopping cold, and there's no punishing rebound either way.
That was my non-negotiable too before I started recommending this. I've seen too many dogs go through that rebound cycle. I refuse to put a client's dog through that again.
You can read more about how it works here.
Quick question, can I still use her regular flea and tick treatment with this?
We finally found one that doesn't upset her stomach and I really don't want to mess with that.
Yep! I didn't change anything else in Daisy's routine either. It's a leave-on spray, 2-5 mists directly on the skin, once a day. Takes about 5 seconds. Not greasy, no residue, doesn't stain the furniture or leave her feeling sticky. It works alongside whatever else you're already using — flea and tick treatments included.
Honestly it's the easiest thing I've ever added to a grooming routine. That matters, because most of my clients have zero patience left for complicated multi-step regimens.
My rescue reacts to basically everything.
Medicated shampoo made her skin beet red, most sprays make her worse, even some "gentle" wipes leave her red and flaky.
Has anyone had any irritation with this?
I want to try it but I'm honestly nervous at this point.
Yolanda, I want to address this directly because reactive skin is a huge concern for a lot of the dogs I see.
All seven active ingredients in K9 Soothe are plant- and botanical-based — a flavonoid complex, ozonated coconut oil, rose water, aloe, calendula oil, MCT oil, and witch hazel.
There's no steroid. No alcohol. No harsh surfactants like the ones in most medicated shampoos.
I specifically formulated this for reactive, easily-irritated skin because that describes a large share of the dogs I treat, especially rescues whose skin barrier has already been through a lot.
The formula is lightweight and whisper-quiet on application. It's not going to leave the sting or the burning that alcohol-based sprays often do.
Every ingredient was chosen not only for what it does to seal the barrier, but for how gentle it is — and it's 100% lick-safe, which matters for dogs who won't leave a spot alone.
Read more about the ingredients here:
Ok I'm actually tempted but I need real talk, how long before you actually saw something?
Because we did a $500 elimination diet trial for TWELVE WEEKS and saw literally nothing. No change, no improvement, nothing. Just $500 gone and a very confused dog. I can't do another few months of hoping and checking his belly every morning.
For Daisy and the other clients I've used this on, first few days, you won't see dramatic visual change.
But most dogs show less paw-licking and calmer scratching almost right away — sometimes within the first hour or two. That alone tells you something's different, because I'd never seen that with anything else.
By day 6 to 10, hot spots start visibly shrinking and skin starts returning to a normal color instead of that angry red.
By week 2, the scratching has usually dropped the most — most of my clients report it down 60-90% from where it started. Coat starts getting its shine back.
Here's the difference from your elimination diet, with that you waited twelve weeks and got nothing. With this, the calming starts within days, and the visible healing follows over the next few weeks. That early signal is what kept me believing something was actually happening underneath.
Full coat restoration takes longer, usually a couple months, but the early relief comes fast enough that you're not white-knuckling it the whole time.
I want to believe this thread but we've already spent over $1,000 on things that did nothing. Medicated shampoo, allergy chews, two rounds of antibiotics for infected hot spots, an elimination diet, all of it, nothing lasting.
I literally cannot afford to throw more money at something that might not work for us.
How do I justify this to myself?
Renee, that was almost exactly Daisy's situation. Word for word. And honestly the guarantee is the only reason her owner agreed to try one more thing.
You get 180 days. That's six full months to use the entire bottle. If it doesn't work, you get your money back. No games, no fine print, no "only if the bottle's still sealed" nonsense. You use it. If it doesn't work, you get a refund.
Worst case, you're right back where you are now and you haven't lost a cent. Best case, you finally found the thing that actually works. And at about $25.50 for a bottle, after everything else you've already spent, this is genuinely the lowest-risk thing left to try.
That math is what got Daisy's owner to say yes. After $1,000 in losses, risking $25.50 with a real guarantee felt like a no-brainer.
Here's that link again if you want it!
I just spent the last hour reading this entire thread and I ordered. My dog's been scratching for almost two years and I haven't tried anything since Apoquel wrecked her stomach and we had to stop.
But what Dr. Randy said about the barrier vs. just muting the signal, that explains everything. That's probably why nothing else actually stuck. I feel a little dumb for not putting that together sooner.
Thank you Amanda. Genuinely. I'll come back and update in a few weeks.
Katrina you are NOT dumb, I didn't fully get the barrier vs. signal thing either until Dr. Randy walked me through it, and I'd been grooming itchy dogs for years. Nobody tells owners this part. That's the whole problem.
Please come back and let us know how it goes! Give it at least 3-4 weeks before you judge anything. The scratching usually calms down first, and that's how you'll know it's working underneath before you see the coat catch up. Rooting for her ♥
Ok I'm back. I promised I'd update and I'm a woman of my word.
It's been about 5 weeks since I ordered after reading this thread.
Amanda, you told me to give it 3-4 weeks and not to judge too early. I'm so glad I listened.
First — here's what her skin looked like before I started. I almost didn't take this photo because it made me sad to look at, but I'm glad I did now:
Before
And here's what they look like today, five weeks later:
After
I know. I KNOW. I stared at these two photos side by side for ten minutes.
The first week I honestly didn't notice much and I was already mentally preparing myself for another disappointment.
But around day 10 something shifted.
I was doing our nightly check and she wasn't chewing her back paw the second I sat down next to her, which used to happen every single time.
I thought maybe it was a fluke. It wasn't.
By week 3 the scratching had slowed to almost nothing. I cannot describe what that feels like to someone who's watched her dog claw at herself every single night for two years.
Then she started sleeping through the night.
Normally, she’d be curled up with me, and wake up every couple hours to itch and scratch.
It woke me up multiple times a night.
But now… I stopped dreading bedtime. I just... stopped bracing for it. That alone would have been enough for me.
I asked my roommate to confirm I wasn't imagining it.
She said "oh my god, that's definitely new."
We're only five weeks in and there's still one smaller hot spot that’s almost healed.
But her fur has grown back, and the scratching is almost completely gone.
For the first time in two years something is actually working. TWO YEARS of nothing and now I have my happy girl back.
I cried. Good tears this time.
To anyone else reading this thread who's on the fence like I was — just try it.
The 180-day guarantee means you literally have nothing to lose.
We spent $400 on things that made her worse or did nothing. This is pretty inexpensive and it's actually doing something. Look at my photos. That's five weeks.
Amanda — thank you. Seriously. This thread changed things for us.
click here
WHITNEY!!! 😭 I am sitting here reading this with the biggest smile. This timeline sounds like exactly what happened with Daisy. EXACTLY.
And you said the thing that matters most — the scratching stopped first. That's how you know it's working before you can even see the coat catch up. The fact that you're not dreading bedtime anymore is everything.
Keep going. Month 2 is where it really starts to show. I have a feeling your next update is going to be incredible.
This is why I posted. THIS. Right here. One dog at a time.
♥♥♥
PetParentDigest
PetParentDigest
Chronic Itching Discussions
Dog Groomer Reveals: What actually stops your pup’s nonstop itching? 8 months and $1000+ later, I helped my client find something that worked!!
I've been lurking on this forum for almost a year and I've never posted anything like this because honestly, every time I got excited about a product it ended up being another waste of money. But I have to share this.
If your dog can’t stop scratching and licking themselves…
Their paws are chewed up, their coat is full of bald spots…
Even though you’ve already spent hundreds, maybe thousands, at the vet.
Grab these two things and toss them.
First, medicated shampoo.
Here's something most people don't realize…
Shampoos don't stop the itch problem, they actually make it worse.
Imagine washing your face with dish soap…
That dry, stripped feeling? That’s what happens when you use shampoos on their sensitive skin.
It strips away the protective barrier…
Which allows bacteria and allergens to get direct access to your dog’s skin, creating even more irritation.
But honestly, allergy meds might actually be worse.
Everyone thinks Apoquel or Cytopoint are the ultimate solutions, and in theory they should be.
But here’s the thing…
It's not that they don’t work, it's the side effects that terrify me.
See, most allergy meds shut down your dog’s immune system.
That's why they can be so effective, and so harmful at the same time.
They mute the itch signal, but don’t do anything to fix the root cause.
It’s like ripping the batteries out of a smoke detector while there’s a fire going on.
The alarm goes quiet… but the house is still in flames.
So when you stop the meds, the itch comes back, often stronger than before.
Even worse, shutting down their immune system can increase the risk of infections and other health problems…
And they’re incredibly expensive long term.
Not worth it if you ask me.
I've groomed hundreds of itchy dogs over the last few years, and they're the ones that worry me the most.
Raw paws, chewed-down coats, even a plastic cone that keeps them from tearing at their own skin…
I'd do what I could.
A gentle bath, clean them up, send them home looking better.
But I knew by the next visit, the itching would be back… along with the hot spots.
I was sick of watching dogs suffer while their owners ran out of hope.
So I started looking for an alternative solution.
That's when I found Dr. Randy Aronson, a holistic vet who’s been helping itchy dogs over the last 40 years.
And he had a completely different approach.
It's not a drug… It's not a shampoo…
Dr. Randy helped develop a spray that's completely different from anything we'd tried.
It's a simple daily ritual that does two things…
First, it flushes the trapped allergens out of the skin, the actual splinters driving the itch.
Then it seals the skin barrier so they can't get back in.
Stopping the itch at the source, then shutting the door behind it.
His ritual is 100% natural, and only takes a few seconds…
Seven all-natural skin-barrier ingredients at real, clinically dosed amounts — not the trace amounts you get in drugstore pet sprays.
It goes directly on the skin so it skips the whole digestion problem entirely.
It doesn't build any tolerance the way Apoquel did.
And it doesn't cause dependency.
You can stop whenever you want without him going right back to scratching.
They have a 180-day empty-bottle guarantee, and I'll be honest, that was the only reason I tried it.
After some of my clients had wasted $1000+, I couldn't stomach asking them to spend another cent on something that might not work.
But $25.50 a bottle with a full six-month money-back guarantee?
I figured we had nothing to lose except maybe finding the thing that actually worked.
So I decided to give it a try with one of my clients…
A terrier mix named Daisy, who'd been scratching herself raw for over a year, and was full of bald patches.
Her owner had changed her food three times, and was considering giving her Apoquel…
So I told her to try this simple ritual first.
Two weeks later, Daisy’s coat was filling in, the redness had calmed, and her owner told me she was finally sleeping peacefully through the night.
I now recommend this to all of my clients with itchy dogs…
Many say this is the one thing that actually worked.
But after watching so many dogs suffer, I knew I had to share this with as many people as possible…
I shared the link below where you can try Dr. Randy’s 5-second skin sealer.
And you can put it to use right from the comfort of your own home.
Just tap or click here to see how it works.
You don’t have to watch your dog suffer, or scratch themselves raw anymore.
Or waste money on shampoos, medication, and injections that only hide the problem.
This helps dogs finally stop that constant itch…
And wag their tails from pure relief.
You can make that happen for your pup, too.
Just click the link here, and see how you can relieve your dog’s chronic itching in seconds.
It could save your dog from years of discomfort.
You can keep using things that were never designed for what's actually happening under your dog's fur.
Or you can try the one thing that finally goes after all three causes at once.
The guarantee means you're risking nothing except maybe finding the thing that works.
This really does work.
Here’s where I got mine →
Let me know if you have questions. I'll answer everything honestly.
— Amanda
Thank you so much for posting this. I've been on this forum for over a year and honestly most posts just make me feel more hopeless about our dog. This is the first one that actually gave me some hope. Saving this whole thread.
Hey Devon, I actually got an email from Amanda about this post — I like staying in touch with the groomers and dog parents who trust me with their pets.
Great question, and I completely understand the skepticism.
I've spent 40+ years treating chronic skin conditions in dogs.
Here's the core difference.
Apoquel and Cytopoint work by suppressing the immune signal that tells your dog's brain "this itches." That's genuinely useful for fast relief, which is why vets reach for it so often.
But here's the limitation most owners are never told: neither one does anything to the actual skin barrier underneath. The barrier stays cracked. Allergens and bacteria keep getting in. The medication is just muting the alarm, not putting out the fire.
That's also why so many dogs need higher doses over time, and why the itch comes roaring back the moment you stop — you've removed the thing that was masking the damage, and the damage was never repaired.
K9 Soothe works through a completely different pathway. It delivers a flavonoid complex directly to the skin that targets the cracks in the barrier itself and calms the histamine flood at the source, instead of just quieting the signal.
That's why there's no dependency and no rebound. You're not propping up a suppressed immune system — you're sealing the actual leak.
Two fundamentally different mechanisms. I spent years watching patients cycle on and off allergy meds before I understood why so many of them kept relapsing.
I explained how it works in more detail: here
Gary, I completely understand that worry. I hear some version of it from clients almost every week.
But from everything I've learned from Dr. Randy, skin barrier damage isn't the same as permanent damage. Unless there's intense scarring, the skin is still capable of healing — it's just been fighting a losing battle this whole time.
The spray works by removing what's been attacking the barrier and giving it the conditions it needs to actually seal back up.
I can't promise anything for any dog at any age, but that's genuinely what the 180-day guarantee is for.
You try it. If it doesn't work, you get your money back. Six months to find out for sure, with zero financial risk, seems worth it to me.
And honestly? Senior dogs deserve to stop scratching just as much as puppies do.
I think if you read their page you'll get more clarity on whether this is right for him:
We stopped Apoquel after 18 months and the scratching came back WORSE than before we ever started. Whole hot spots we'd never even seen before.
I literally cannot go through that again. That whole situation still gives me anxiety just thinking about it.
Louis, no. And honestly that was the very first thing I asked Dr. Randy before I recommended it to any client.
Apoquel suppresses the immune response, so a dog's body sort of leans on it. When you stop, everything that medication was masking comes flooding back at once. That's a completely different mechanism from what K9 Soothe does.
It's not suppressing anything. It's sealing the actual barrier that was letting allergens through in the first place.
Once the barrier's rebuilt and the skin's calmed down, most of my clients scale back to a few times a week for maintenance instead of stopping cold, and there's no punishing rebound either way.
That was my non-negotiable too before I started recommending this. I've seen too many dogs go through that rebound cycle. I refuse to put a client's dog through that again.
You can read more about how it works here.
We finally found one that doesn't upset her stomach and I really don't want to mess with that.
Honestly it's the easiest thing I've ever added to a grooming routine. That matters, because most of my clients have zero patience left for complicated multi-step regimens.
Medicated shampoo made her skin beet red, most sprays make her worse, even some "gentle" wipes leave her red and flaky.
Has anyone had any irritation with this?
I want to try it but I'm honestly nervous at this point.
Yolanda, I want to address this directly because reactive skin is a huge concern for a lot of the dogs I see.
All seven active ingredients in K9 Soothe are plant- and botanical-based — a flavonoid complex, ozonated coconut oil, rose water, aloe, calendula oil, MCT oil, and witch hazel.
There's no steroid. No alcohol. No harsh surfactants like the ones in most medicated shampoos.
I specifically formulated this for reactive, easily-irritated skin because that describes a large share of the dogs I treat, especially rescues whose skin barrier has already been through a lot.
The formula is lightweight and whisper-quiet on application. It's not going to leave the sting or the burning that alcohol-based sprays often do.
Every ingredient was chosen not only for what it does to seal the barrier, but for how gentle it is — and it's 100% lick-safe, which matters for dogs who won't leave a spot alone.
Read more about the ingredients here:
Because we did a $500 elimination diet trial for TWELVE WEEKS and saw literally nothing. No change, no improvement, nothing. Just $500 gone and a very confused dog. I can't do another few months of hoping and checking his belly every morning.
But most dogs show less paw-licking and calmer scratching almost right away — sometimes within the first hour or two. That alone tells you something's different, because I'd never seen that with anything else.
By day 6 to 10, hot spots start visibly shrinking and skin starts returning to a normal color instead of that angry red.
By week 2, the scratching has usually dropped the most — most of my clients report it down 60-90% from where it started. Coat starts getting its shine back.
Here's the difference from your elimination diet, with that you waited twelve weeks and got nothing. With this, the calming starts within days, and the visible healing follows over the next few weeks. That early signal is what kept me believing something was actually happening underneath.
Full coat restoration takes longer, usually a couple months, but the early relief comes fast enough that you're not white-knuckling it the whole time.
I literally cannot afford to throw more money at something that might not work for us.
How do I justify this to myself?
Renee, that was almost exactly Daisy's situation. Word for word. And honestly the guarantee is the only reason her owner agreed to try one more thing.
You get 180 days. That's six full months to use the entire bottle. If it doesn't work, you get your money back. No games, no fine print, no "only if the bottle's still sealed" nonsense. You use it. If it doesn't work, you get a refund.
Worst case, you're right back where you are now and you haven't lost a cent. Best case, you finally found the thing that actually works. And at about $25.50 for a bottle, after everything else you've already spent, this is genuinely the lowest-risk thing left to try.
That math is what got Daisy's owner to say yes. After $1,000 in losses, risking $25.50 with a real guarantee felt like a no-brainer.
Here's that link again if you want it!
But what Dr. Randy said about the barrier vs. just muting the signal, that explains everything. That's probably why nothing else actually stuck. I feel a little dumb for not putting that together sooner.
Thank you Amanda. Genuinely. I'll come back and update in a few weeks.
Please come back and let us know how it goes! Give it at least 3-4 weeks before you judge anything. The scratching usually calms down first, and that's how you'll know it's working underneath before you see the coat catch up. Rooting for her ♥
It's been about 5 weeks since I ordered after reading this thread.
Amanda, you told me to give it 3-4 weeks and not to judge too early. I'm so glad I listened.
First — here's what her skin looked like before I started. I almost didn't take this photo because it made me sad to look at, but I'm glad I did now:
Before
And here's what they look like today, five weeks later:
After
I know. I KNOW. I stared at these two photos side by side for ten minutes.
The first week I honestly didn't notice much and I was already mentally preparing myself for another disappointment.
But around day 10 something shifted.
I was doing our nightly check and she wasn't chewing her back paw the second I sat down next to her, which used to happen every single time.
I thought maybe it was a fluke. It wasn't.
By week 3 the scratching had slowed to almost nothing. I cannot describe what that feels like to someone who's watched her dog claw at herself every single night for two years.
Then she started sleeping through the night.
Normally, she’d be curled up with me, and wake up every couple hours to itch and scratch.
It woke me up multiple times a night.
But now… I stopped dreading bedtime. I just... stopped bracing for it. That alone would have been enough for me.
I asked my roommate to confirm I wasn't imagining it.
She said "oh my god, that's definitely new."
We're only five weeks in and there's still one smaller hot spot that’s almost healed.
But her fur has grown back, and the scratching is almost completely gone.
For the first time in two years something is actually working. TWO YEARS of nothing and now I have my happy girl back.
I cried. Good tears this time.
To anyone else reading this thread who's on the fence like I was — just try it.
The 180-day guarantee means you literally have nothing to lose.
We spent $400 on things that made her worse or did nothing. This is pretty inexpensive and it's actually doing something. Look at my photos. That's five weeks.
Amanda — thank you. Seriously. This thread changed things for us.
click here
And you said the thing that matters most — the scratching stopped first. That's how you know it's working before you can even see the coat catch up. The fact that you're not dreading bedtime anymore is everything.
Keep going. Month 2 is where it really starts to show. I have a feeling your next update is going to be incredible.
This is why I posted. THIS. Right here. One dog at a time.
♥♥♥
PetParentDigest