My 7 year old son is asthmatic and has some allergy issues that trigger it. He was tested a couple years ago and dog what one thing he was NOT allergic to. However, he has been having major problems since November. Constantly coughing, red eyes(looks like pink eye but it's not). He just can't stay healthy. The interesting thing is he was given a chinchilla around that time, so we thought that was the problem but we're told that chinchillas have no dander, but it could very well be the bedding. So we moved the chinchilla out of his room and into the utility room where he never goes. Cleaned his room thoroughly more than once. Still the problem persists.

So my wife took him to the allergist Friday to test his breathing capacity and it's down 20% from 6 months ago. He's going back this coming Friday to redo the allergy testing. The nurse said to be prepared that he could very well have developed an allergy to the dogs and we need to be prepared to make them outside dogs. I would have thought exposure to them would make him more allergy resistant to them, but they said this happens sometimes.

So I need to be prepared. We have kennels outside but rarely use them. We only use them is we are going to be gone for a very long day so they aren't forced to hold it so long. The problem is that when we do, we sometimes come home to one neighbor, even though we live on 10 acres in the country, that has left a message complaining about the barking. Legally during the day they can't do much but complain but I'd rather not have a neighbor feud. I can crate them in the garage at night if I have to. I'm not educated on bark collars, but my instinct is I'd rather not do that. As a side note to the bark collar, I am working my 1 year old rottie in Schutzhund. Don't know what effect that my have if we went that route. We really really don't want to have to put them outside, but it's better than re-homing them and our son's health has to come first. So any suggestions how to handle this if that's what we're forced to do?

I'm not sure how this ended up in streaming video. I hit new post under general conversation. Can someone please move this?

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I'm not sure how this ended up in streaming video. I hit new post under general conversation. Can someone please move this?

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