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Allergies effecting your Havanese can greatly impact on your dog’s quality of life. In order to lessen the suffering time for allergies or any other serious aspect of Havanese care, you need to choose a vet for your Havanese before your dog gets ill. You need a regular vet and an emergency vet for when your regular vet is not available. You won’t have much choice with an emergency vet, but you can choose your regular vet.

The vet’s office should be temperature controlled, clean and have someone like a vet technician or receptionist to help and supervise. All animals in the waiting room should be constrained in some way - either on a lead or in a carrier. You also need to know how to get to your vet’s office before you have to deal with a sick dog. Many vets now have extensive web pages to answer your questions about how much Havanese care they know.

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.

Vets now specialize in “regular”, exotic pets or livestock, and some specialize in cats or dogs. Some veterinary practices will have diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, and some won’t.

Havanese, fortunately, have not shown signs of being more prone to allergies than other breeds of dog. When they get allergies, they get allergies most common in all dogs - skin allergies, food allergies or allergies to medicines. Just as it can be a long time of trial and error to determine just what a person can be allergic to, it takes an equally long time to determine what your Havanese is allergic to.

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.

Your vet should be especially concerned about your Havanese’ care. He or she will want to know about everything that touches your dog - where he plays, what plants are in where he plays, what medications are given and if he eats any of his toys.

This might seem like a lot of work, but it’s merely a change of habits. It will be worth it to give your Havanese the care he or she deserves.