Chicken allergy or environmental?

[BeansNsausages]

Evening.

I have a three month old saluki who has just started going for walks.

Today we went on a walk which we have done twice before. When we got home, after about an hour as she sat in the car while I checked the horses, she was frantically chewing at one foot. She nibbled her tail very briefly but was obsessed with the one foot and was obviously being driven mad by it.

She's asleep now so am hoping she wont go back to chewing it when she wakes up!

Now I did substitute one of her meals for cooked chicken on the walk today, as encouragement for recall training. This is the first time I have fed this.

Would cooked chicken cause such a reaction after just an hour? Or is this more likely that she has stung it or similar?

Hoping and praying it's not an allergy to grass.

 

[planete]

Could she have stepped on some nettles?

 

[HappyHollyDays]

Nettles? they are growing and when young are absolutely vicious.

 

[CorvusCorax]

It wouldn't have that effect in such a short space of time. I'd say she's just stepped in something ouchy.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

I'm going to go against the grain here. I have just been buying chicken for the dogs, I looked at cooked chicken and every variety had dextrose and a variety of other chemicals in there. I wouldn't be surprised if some of that caused an itchy reaction.
If it was plain chicken that you cooked yourself, I would have expected there to have to be a build up tocause a reaction. We certainly used to have a cat that couldn't eat chicken.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I would also say it's something she trod on whilst out, my dog will not walk near nettles she knows they hurt she also won't walk near conker trees where the spiky bits are on the floor, I think young dogs have very soft sensitive pads and don't yet have much knowledge of what to avoid stepping on.

 

[BeansNsausages]

Thank you all for the reassurance.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

When one of mine was going frantic at her paws, also guessing nettles, I gave her Piriton and it sorted it out.

 

[Clodagh]

Thank you all for the reassurance.

Is she ok today?

 

[Clodagh]

And just to point out, you have a 3 month old saluki, so a puppy, and no photo? Come on!