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Fortunately for your Havanese care needs, you have more choices in veterinarians and clinics than ever before. While there are those still in the traditional private practices, there are also clinics popping up in large chain super pet stores. Even if your Havanese is not sick now, you need to have a regular and emergency vet picked out. You also need to know how to get to their offices.

Hopefully, your dog won’t get any of the allergies effecting Havanese, but it can happen. It is far less stressful for your dog and you to have a vet chosen in advance, since the both of you will being a lot of him or her. Although Havanese are a relatively healthy breed of dog, they still are prone to getting allergies like all dogs can. These allergies are mostly allergies to foods, chemicals or even pollen.

It is perfectly all right to ask your prospective veterinarian what kind of experience he or she has had with small dogs, and not just animals in general. Although the days of general veterinary practices are numbered, there are those vets out there who are still jack-of-all-trades.

If your vet does not have all of the diagnostic tools they need at their practice, they will have to send out to a lab. Your dog will need blood work and a skin scrape done, at least. Yu dog would pay for these tests for you, so you should do no less to provide the most ethical Havanese care possible. If the dog doesn’t stop scratching, they can rip themselves open and then require expensive surgery and treatments for infection.

Diagnosing specific Havanese allergies might take a while - as in months, but not always. This will be on a trial and error basis, especially if a food ingredient is suspect. In that case, you have to put the dog on a bland diet of boiled chicken and rice for two to four weeks, and then gradually add one new ingredient every ten days until symptoms return.

If your Havanese starts scratching so bad they bleed or leave red, hairless spots, your dog probably is suffering from an allergy that can affect Havanese, which can affect other dogs, too. Havanese allergies are usually never contagious wither to humans or to other dogs. Your dog is most likely allergic to some sort of plant, a food ingredient or a chemical in laundry detergent or shampoos.

Allergies effecting Havanese usually are treated with a combination of dietary change and medications. If your Havanese has broken the skin by scratching, then they will probably also have to go on antibiotics to prevent infection.

You might have to bring I the bottles or labels of all of the items you use in Havanese care - shampoo, flea powder, laundry detergent for their blankets, for example. Being cooperative and patient will help your vet uncover the cause of your Havanese’ allergy.

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