Other than drugs, what you can do that very well may bring your dog relief is to get him or her completely off commercial dog food. Kibble in a bag has nothing to do with what dogs are biologically meant to eat. Dogs do NOT eat large quantities of grain (and stay healthy). Dogs do NOT eat meat byproducts that are nowhere near safe for consumption. Dogs are meant to eat raw meat and a small quantity of fresh veggies. Yet, these inappropriate ingredients are the ones that show up in commercial “dog food.”

Look up the raw food diet for dogs and see if this isn’t a gift you can give your pet. Try it out systematically and see if he improves over a month or two. Especially for the small dogs, the cost is very manageable.

At first this involves some time and reading, and it’s best to find a raw food for dogs forum where you can ask questions. As you get into it, it gets much easier. And chances are your dog’s itching will improve since his system won’t be fighting all that allergenic, nutritionally useless corn and rice.