Riley had a rash around his eye a couple of months ago. I took him to the vet; she did a scraping for mites-not it. She thought it was related to allergies-likely something in his environment, but maybe something about the food. Just in case, I changed from Natural Balance (blue bag) to Natural Balance fish and potato. Before the food change, his eye cleared up, but the rash appeared in his arm pit on one front arm and on the front of the other front arm (up at the top). It's on his butt above where his tail starts, too. It's a bunch of big bumps-mosquito bite sized-that itch, so he scratches/knaws at them and they scab over.
My roommate suggested baby carrots (a holistic vet told his friend to give them to her dog for a rash). This didn't seem to do all that much; I'll admit, the rash slowed down, but I don't know that it's that. The weather is also changing (finally getting a bit cooler instead of 90 and humid everyday).
Well, today, I noticed that one of my cats has a patch of the same rash on one of his legs. My cats are indoor-only animals; the dogs are outside for walks and a few times a day in the yard for 10-20 minutes.
I'll try to get pictures of it, but does anybody have any ideas as to what would affect a dog and, two months later, start to affect a cat?? I swear it looks like the same thing.
