For the first time in her very healthy life, Lenore got a cortisone shot to knock out three days and nights of non-stop itching, she has been so uncomfortable. Dr. Suzanne Fariello of the Cambridge Valley Veterinary Service said she is seeing waves of dogs coming in for inhalant allergies as the climate gets warmer, the frosts come later and are not as hard. Ticks and fleas are not dying off and pollens and other allergies are on the increase as many kinds of plants and growth simply do not die.

Lenore is one of the best bred and healthiest dogs I have ever had, and she’s never had any kind of allergy before this year (I think she did have a brief bout of itching in the Spring). A few hours after the shot, the itching stopped and she is just about back to normal. Lenore loves the techs and doctors at the clinic, she gets a bit anxious while she gets a shot, but her tail never stops thumping.