Itchy Vet Syndrome

Today I had a patient whose fur turned vet student skin into red, itchy, bumpy, awfulness. It was a shar-pei, with a short, rough, prickly coat. The coarse little hairs would climb up my lab coat sleeves and cling to my black pants, and even the sticky de-furrer rolly thing couldn't get any of the hairs off. Every time I touched my patient, my skin freaked out for the next ten minutes. At one point, I had to help hold him on his side so the vet could assess the joints in his hind limbs, and both my forearms turned bright red.