Could this be scabies? Please help!?
My mini-dachshund scratches and chews himself all the time. He has done it pretty much since we first got him at 6 weeks old and he is now four months. At first we thouht it was due to fleas so we put him on Comfortis and that has worked for the fleas. We took him to the vet and he said it was probably a flea allergy so he said to give him children's benadryl. He lost his appetite and it didn't help him. I called the vet back about this and was told by another doctor (there are several at this clinic) to take him off the benadryl. I did and we took him back that night to see what else they could do with him (this was Tuesday). They gave us an antehistamine but this vet said it might be scabies so we are supposed to put Revolution on him every two weeks (I have three tubes). I still haven't seen any difference. My question is should I have seen one by now and do you think its scabies? We hold him all the time and he sleeps in our bed. Wouldn't we have gotten it too?
He did a skin scrape and said it wasn't demodex, but that he couldn't rule out scabies because they were harder to find? But he did that thing where he rubbed his ear and his foot started thumping. Also, he has a couple of scabs on his back from scratching so much but no hair loss.