What helps flaky skin? We used dog shampoo for sensitive skin but Ester still has a lot of flaking???

What would you recommend?

Thanks
Mark

Fish oil caps, dermacaps, flax fish and borage. All easily found at the vet's (most expensive way), animal supply, petsmart or even the dreaded Wal-mart.
This will moisturize from the inside out, also she is still shedding some old skin from diet and lifestyle changes.
My new girl is still dandruffy and I am using oatmeal shampoo and fish oil.
It just takes a while and these past 2 years we have been having an epidemic of itchy dogs, so the old ones are itchy too. It's something in the air or global warming or some such nonsense.

There does seem to be a lot of itchy going on. And this time of year doesn't help with the cold air and dry indoor air.

Adding oil to their diet is important. We also give a Vitamin E cap once a day. If you do fish oil you can get it at BJ's, Sams Club in the big bottles. The human product is what we use. Flax seed oil is another good one. IF you use a Pet product like Demacaps get them online at

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They have good pricing.

And brush as much as you can to get all that dead skin and hair off.

We don't shampoo often and when we do we use either an oatmeal shampoo or oxyfresh shampoo. Both followed by a leave on oatmeal conditioner. When Toby's itchy is really bad we bath him with ChlorahexiDerm shampoo and a similiar conditioner. He is our dandruff boy.

What's wrong with "the Dreaded Walmart"?????

We love WalMart LOL Actually headed now for school supplies.... It never fails tho of the 20 + lanes they have the 2 or 3 open ar elong.. When we can we go around midnite It's usually pretty empty & alot of fun!!! That is where I got my last bottle of fish oil capsules.

Just curious...now I know why it's dreaded!!
Actually,I work at the dreaded Walmart....that would
be the University Walmart.I transferred to that store
from the Walmart in Santee,California.Been with them
going into my 12th year now.
If you think waiting in line is a "dreaded" thing.Try
working there!!!(just kidding!) (sometimes!)
Sandy

Did I mention I work 3rd shift at that dreaded Walmart?
Going to Walmart at 3am would be a shorter wait in line!!!
Actually we close at midnight now because of the 3
robberies we had overnight....with 9 milemeters...not a
pretty picture.The University Walmart will become a Super
Center in Jan. of 2008.We will be moving our location.Maybe
I'll see you there at 3am sometime,Lynda.I'll be looking for
you!!!
Sandy

Please Sandy, fix the University WalMart!! The place used to be a great resource for stuff for people and pets, but we do our best to not go there anymore, because the lines are so long and the staff acts like no one cares about us, the shoppers. A University area WalMart SuperCenter with people who care would be greyt!

i put a litle olive oil in their food in the mornings. i have used flax oil and the occassional bit of vegetable oil if i run out of olive. i have used the premier shampoo and conditioner from drsfosterandsmith and it smells yummy and the conditioner is greyt!

Hi Carol,
You are definitely right! If I could fix that store,I would!!I know one thing,if I had started out working in that store,I would have quit right
away!!
They are the rudest,laziest people who work in that store I have ever seen!!I have been there 6yrs.and we have had 6 different store managers...each one worse than the other!! The associates,as well as some of the store managers, steal that store blind! They steal time,
money and merchandise!!
The store I came from in CA. was totally different.This Walmart is a joke!!
I'm hoping when we become a Super Center,that things will be different.
The University store is one of the dirtiest,trashiest stores I have ever been in.When we come to work at night,we have to clean up the whole store.It's awful!! I am embarassed to say I work in that store!!
Oh,well,we can only hope!!
Sandy

Mark - I hope some of the suggestions here have helped. Let us know what you try and how it does.

Sandy - where is the University Walmart moving too? My niece works for Walmart and she said she could actually see herself retiring from them as they are such a good company to work for. Keep in mind she is only 27 so retirement is a loooooong way off.