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Thank you all once again for your replies! Chocopolo and Caro: Thanks for raising Lupus as a possibility. In googling a brief description of his symptoms Lupus did pop up, and after you mentioned that I attempted to read up a little more. A clarification, though: His nose in itself seems...

Thank you everyone for your replies! Silaria: Thank you for your gentle reminder. I'm thankful for a sheltie-specific forum on which I could voice concerns, and hopefully get suggestions based on fellow sheltie-owners' own experiences. Sometimes the issue can be resolved via home remedies and...

Hello again everyone, It's been more than 2 weeks, and the butt-licking still hasn't abated :( His stools gradually firmed up, but I brought him to the vet on Saturday as he was still licking. The newly-employed vet who saw us expressed his anal glands (left gland was slightly full...

Thanks, Trini, for your reply. I checked the blood test done in June - nope it didn't test for thyroid function. Only that of the liver (ALT and another enzyme), kidney (creatinine, BUN), and blood glucose, total protein. All was well, except BUN was on the higher end, but still within the...

Thanks Trini and Silaria for your suggestion! We did a very basic blood test for him (blood glucose, and to check for liver and kidney function) back in June - all was fine, but yeah guess it wouldn't have indicated any thyroid issues. Would my changing his diet have caused thyroid issues...

Hey guys, Since being back on his dry kibble on Sept 1 he hasn't been bum-licking, until this morning. This was, however, long after he was fed and had pooped last evening, and he wasn't licking at all then, either. This may be unrelated, but Chiral usually poops once a day. Despite having...

Thanks guys for your replies! Caro: I think it was more the chicken bone though - for some time after his licking stopped in January I was still feeding him raw chicken and minced pork/beef but with salmon bones instead, and he was fine. It was only after I realized the amount of fat in the...

back again Hello again guys, My sheltie's licking had actually come to a halt end January this year - I was trying out so many different measures that I couldn't quite pinpoint what the exact remedy/problem was. Anyway, we enjoyed a good half a year's worth of relief when I fed him raw...

Baking soda doesn't seem to have worked or helped :( No, checking for staph infection wasn't done either. The vet commented that the licking's due to allergies, though it's very mild given that the skin wasn't very inflammed. Since so she recommended that it be controlled with...

Hi Trini and sorry that I missed your earlier post - thanks for replying and for your suggestions too :) With reference to blood work, no my vet did not - she said that it was a very mild allergy (there was hardly any skin irritation at the exact spot that he was licking), and that it could...

Thanks Mignarda for your suggestion and reply! I'm wondering if there might be other causes for the incessant perineum licking. I believe I'd spotted those brown specks long before the licking, and am worried that there could be some other causes that I'm not addressing. Also, to speed the...

Hello everyone, I'm new here, and I'd like to first say that I'm so glad that there is this community for fellow sheltie lovers to interact and exchange breed-specific advice :) Apologies in advance for the long mail, but I'm writing to seek kind advice regarding the following health...