My GSD has had several run-ins with poison ivy. No matter how many times I tell him "leaves of three let them be" he refuses to listen! I went to the drugstore and got some liquid poison ivy treatment. It's in the same section as the calamine lotion, etc. I mixed this with a little baby shampoo and gave him a bath in it. I repeated as neccessary. It worked every time.
Greetings from the poison ivy capital of Canada! I own ten acres of the stuff and while none of the dogs or cats has any problems with it, it sticks to them and then transfers itself to me when I handle them. I've never had a dog with any problems from it but mine have a fair bit of coat and I don't know how really short coated dogs like dobes would do. I think anybody that does any bushwork or tracking or the like is probably going to run into it sometime. I get a solution that the pharmacy makes up that is the best thing going to clear up poison ivy or any type of itch. It goes on clear and works better that calamine or any of that type of stuff. Cortisone lotion (not ointment, works well also)
Some of the vet supply places have 1% cortisone
lotion for dogs. I have to go to the pharmacy this aft so I will get the recipe for the anti-itch lotion and post it later. I don't know if you would want to put it on the dogs but it is great for the handlers!
I just asked my vet about poison ivy last week, and he told me that he doesn't think dogs usually have a problem with poison ivy. We have some near our place, and even though my dogs love to mess with it, we haven't had a problem.
I don't know about poison ivy, but my dog has tracked right through poison oak on more than one occasion, and never had a problem. I am much more concerned about the oils transferring to me when I touch him. My understanding is that the coat provides enough skin protection to prevent a reaction, but that it is possible to have a reaction on the belly where the hair is thin or nonexistent. Am I incorrect?
I have a really short, thin-coated pitbull; she is totally bald on most of her stomach, and she has on a few occasions gotten poison-ivy-looking rashes on her stomach after running in wild areas. I can't say for sure that it was poison ivy or oak because I didn't see any and it is not that common around my area, although it does occur. The vet told me to give her benadryl, and I used a calendula salve to help the rash heal. Whatever it was it didn't seem to bother her at all, it just looked nasty. She has a high pain tolerance (pitbull trait) and nothing physical ever seems to bother her except getting wet (horrors!)
The benadryl seemed to have the opposite effect on her than on humans - she was hyper instead of drowsy.
If you should catch poison ivy from your dog ....
here is the recipe I said I would post.
"Anti-itch Lotion"
Sodium Bicorbonateand Boric acid each 1% W/V
Camphor and Menthol each 0.5% W/V
Isopropyl Alchohol 99% 25% W/V
Distilled water to volume
- Apply to affected area 3 or 4 times daily for relief of skin rash and itch. for external use only.
your pharmacist should be able to mix this up for you. It provides immediate relief as soon as you apply it and works great on bug bites (especially the biting blood-thirsty hordes of blackflies we have right now).
Christine Grabow Webboard User Reg: 04-09-2005
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This is weird to me, i have poisin ivy in my backyard and as much as i try to get rid of it it keeps coming back but the really weird thing is....my GSD loves to eat it! I keep telling him not to and he listens if i`m around but if i`m not watching he makes a meal of it. He never had any kind of problems.
Matthew Grubb Webboard User Reg: 09-27-2002
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Every week all summer long I get poison ivy from my work dog.... we track in it and he gets it all over his coat and I get it all over me from being around him. He's never shown any effects.
As far as the human side goes.... my buddies who use to work for Asplund swear by Fels-Naptha® Laundry Bar Soap and cold water. So far it has helped me this summer.
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