[Ditter]

My little JRT only weighs about 22 pounds and she get 50 MG per day. I think 50 MG is the biggest pill. I give it to her with a little canned dogfood, we call it “pill time” and it doesn't make her throw up.

If it shortens her life I will be sad but at least she doesn't scratch herself bloody when she takes it.

The only other thing that stops the itching is a cortisone shot and she can't have more than 2 a year of those and it only last less than a month when she gets one.

[the OlLine Rebel]

If you read the Atopica info, you will see there is a high prevalence of diarrhea and vomiting when the dog starts the med. Normal dogs progress to just 1 pill for their size every 3 weeks within a couple months. My dog is far from normal, had oversized pills every day for monypths on end. Not a big surprise she was so sick from it. Not an indictment of Atopica, just that she was medicated far above normal levels so reacted to it where a better dog can adjust to it.

We gave her 150 mg, using a 100 as well as 50. A GS is only supposed to need 100.

Every day, just like Tara. Has she done this long?