Loyalty to your vet can only go so far. Sierra's itching has suddenly taken a turn for the worse. She has red, raw and sometimes oozy bald spots all over her and there are tufts of hair laying around the house from her pulling it out while scratching. She'll be sleeping peacfully and then suddenly jump up like a bee stung her and start itching like crazy. The food change to the Allergy Formula didn't seem to make one bit of difference and, honestly, the only time we didn't see her itch was the other day when she was with Jeff, cleaning out our pond. It's half-empty and has thick mud in it and she ended up coating herself in the mud. She didn't itch once that any of us saw. As soon as we gave her a bath, she was back to it. Anyway, the vet just keeps going back to the flea allergy, she didn't really test her for anything else and I'm getting a second opinion. I almost feel guilty doing it, because I like this vet, but I just kind of feel like she's not doing everything she can for Sierra this time. I don't know. Maybe there really is somethng else another vet can do, or maybe I'm just desperate to help my dog and I'm blaming the vet because she doesn't have the answer. I'm just hoping an allergy test will tell us something, or maybe the dog needs cortisone shots or something, but SOMETHING has to be done for my dog. I'm again at the point where I just sit on the floor with her, with a cold cloth on her itchy spots because that seems to make her feel better. Jeff even suggested putting an OTC topical anti-itch cream on her, but I don't know if that would be good for her. He even said he has half a mind to go and let her get all muddy like she was and then just brush the dried mud out of her coat and deal with the smell, which is saying a lot about how he feels, because he hates the dog smelling. I just don't know what to do anymore. I just look at her and I want to cry.