Dog with recurrent hives

My dog (11yo female neutered Labrador) has been on prednisone(2.5-5mg)day for 8 yrs.for allergies(itch).9 days ago developed bad hives on face and body after routine vaccines(aug.9) and extremem itch- 1st time ever).I assumed it was a reaction to shots and treated with benadryl(with a vet's advice). 5 days later happened again though,(aug 15) and has lasted for four days but I had changed her brand of food that day(Aug 15)(still lamb and rice formula though). My gut says it's the food but is is just a coincidence that it happend also before the food change due to vaccines? I'm so confused - benadryl helps but head keeps getting hives - body too. My vet says usually vaccine reaction would have under 1 hour after and she was 3 hrs so unlikely from the vaccines. She is so swollen until I medicate her - then hives subside till next day. Nothing else new in her life.Should I go back to previous food? This happend one other time two years ago - we guessed then it was our lawn sprayed for weeds or an insect bite but that time it cleared up after two days. Now has been 4 days. Please help!

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Dog urine marking and humping

We recently adopted a rescue beagle (2yo male neutered). He is an absolute angel except for two things. One, whenever he enters new territory (indoors), he scent marks compulsively, irregardless of the presence of other animals past or present. Once he is accustomed to the new place, he doesn't do it. This has happened at our house, friends' houses, and stores. And if we clap loudly and say, "No, Bernie!" he'll stop - even in mid-mark! We would like to take him places without having to watch him like a hawk for the first half hour to forty five minutes. The second issue - and probably related - is compulsive humping. He'll do it once you've been playing with him on the floor or ground for about twenty minutes and he's getting really worked up. He doesn't do it to other dogs, and he usually only humps human females. He doesn't respond as well to correction on this one. We've mostly tried distracting him or re-directing his focus, but it's not working too well. He was about a year and a half when he was neutered (that's when he arrived at a local shelter). Nothing is known about him before that, but it's quite likely he was used as a hunting beagle because he was found in a part of Louisiana that still uses beagles and other hounds as working/hunting dogs. He spent six months in the shelter and then a few months in foster care where he was with about ten other dogs where he was the smallest (he's about twenty pounds). We're wondering if dominance issues might be involved...? He doesn't like being put on his back to have his belly rubbed, which suggests a dominant personality - but then he cowers a fair amount and won't sustain eye contact which suggests a submissive personality. Other things that might be useful to know: he loves other dogs, likes humans, completely ignores cats unless they try to eat his food and then he barks, is VERY well housetrained, loves his crate, and is a classic beagle in that he spends our walking time with his nose glued to the ground and will do just about anything - including the classic Snoopy dance - to get food of any kind. Thank you in advance.

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Dog crying out in pain when shaking head

My dog (10yo male neutered Rottweiler) has been having pain and crying our occaisionally when he shakes his head. He has problems with his hips and a vet told me I could give him aspirin for that. He also has some small knots on his neck area. I have also noticed him cry out sometimes if he bumps his head lightly on something. Any Idea what the problem might be? And what I can do for him?

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Dog with red scabby skin on stomach

My yellow lab (4yo male neutered) has developed a red splochy stomach and it has some scabs on it. It also looks like he is losing slight bits of hair in spots on his front and rear shoulders. Im thinking that it might be heat spots or some kind of skin disease. We have 2 other Golden Retrievers and neither of them have developed any symptoms, What could be the cause of this?

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Dog drinking a lot of water with slight eye discharge

My 9yo male neutered toy poodle has two problems, first he all of a sudden started drinking a lot of water and having to urinate a lot. This started two weeks ago. Second he is having a small amount of greenish yellow discharge out of the corner of one of his eyes. He has never had an eye infection. What could be wrong with him? Is he constipated?

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dog eating thistleseed with bloody stools

My dog has eaten some thistle seed (Bird Seed.) We found it in a bloody stool. She has been off her food all day. she has taken in about 4-6 oz. of water but that is all. She is currently on Chemo for Lymphatic Cancer. I can't reach our local Vet. What should we do?

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