| Allergies effecting your Havanese can greatly impact | | | | always be willing to help you find alternative therapies |
| on your dog’s quality of life. In order to lessen | | | | for your dog when you ask. |
| the suffering time for allergies or any other serious | | | | Havanese, fortunately, have not shown signs of |
| aspect of Havanese care, you need to choose a vet | | | | being more prone to allergies than other breeds of |
| for your Havanese before your dog gets ill. You need | | | | dog. When they get allergies, they get allergies most |
| a regular vet and an emergency vet for when your | | | | common in all dogs – skin allergies, food allergies |
| regular vet is not available. You won’t have much | | | | or allergies to medicines. Just as it can be a long time |
| choice with an emergency vet, but you can choose | | | | of trial and error to determine just what a person |
| your regular vet. | | | | can be allergic to, it takes an equally long time to |
| The vet’s office should be temperature | | | | determine what your Havanese is allergic to. |
| controlled, clean and have someone like a vet | | | | If your Havanese starts scratching so bad they bleed |
| technician or receptionist to help and supervise. All | | | | or leave red |
| animals in the waiting room should be constrained in | | | | , hairless spots, your dog probably is suffering from |
| some way – either on a lead or in a carrier. You | | | | an allergy that can affect Havanese, which can |
| also need to know how to get to your vet’s | | | | affect other dogs, too. Havanese allergies are usually |
| office before you have to deal with a sick dog. Many | | | | never contagious wither to humans or to other dogs. |
| vets now have extensive web pages to answer | | | | Your dog is most likely allergic to some sort of plant, |
| your questions about how much Havanese care they | | | | a food ingredient or a chemical in laundry detergent |
| know. | | | | or shampoos. |
| Vets clinics are opening more and more in large chain | | | | Your vet should be especially concerned about your |
| pet stores, so if you don’t get along with your | | | | Havanese’ care. He or she will want to know |
| local vet, perhaps you can check one of the clinics | | | | about everything that touches your dog – where |
| out. Your vet and you need to get along to provide | | | | he plays, what plants are in where he plays, what |
| the best Havanese care possible. You need to be | | | | medications are given and if he eats any of his toys. |
| able to listen to them and they need to answer your | | | | The vet will most likely do a skin scrape and send it |
| questions to your satisfaction. Vets need to be | | | | to a lab to help with allergy diagnosis. The vet may |
| professional in manners to you, but they will never | | | | also ask you to put your Havanese on a bland diet of |
| give you preferential treatment over any other client | | | | chicken and rice in order to determine if the dog has |
| (or they shouldn’t, anyway!) Vets today should | | | | a food allergy. |