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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:36 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:33 pm
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woot, congrats, chicken is such a common allergy! I think half my clients have chicken allergies! But it is the most common first ingredient in a pet food.
I have the most awesome options for allergy sufferers! I have raw horsemeat with rabbit bones, dry California Natural with Kangaroo meat and lentils! I'm so excited about this cause before Natural Balance was the only option for allergy sufferers. And the "novelty" protein options are like, fish, lamb and I think venison. But lots of treats have those meats now, plus as carb it's rice or potato, again, probably been exposed with a cookie. Kangaroo and lentils, nope, don't know any cookies or foods like that lol
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:42 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:49 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:04 am
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:04 am
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:14 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:12 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:20 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:19 am
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Akiska Nope to his skin. Check the supplement aisles at your local grocery with the vitamins. According to my vet common allergies are Rice, wheat, corn, chicken, lamb, and beef. You might try finding an alternative food that uses duck or he suggested a good one with rabbit.
We've eliminated rice and most grains from his diet (I say most because my dad refuses to stop giving Jonny the Ol' Roy treats, which contains corn and beef, unless we get allergy tests done to prove that he's allergic to those ingredients... gonk ). We've eliminated chicken from his diet. We have found an alternative treat that is primarily duck breast with some natural preservatives added that everyone but my dad gives to him. The food he's getting now is the Taste of the Wild's pacific stream formula, which does not contain chicken (obviously no grains), and its protein comes from seafood. I do find it rather interesting that now, it's only the one spot on one of his back legs and no other spot, which seems like now it might be simply habit (before we eliminated the rice and majority of the grains from his diet, he was chewing at many spots, the one he's still licking and chewing obsessively being the worse one of the spots, but he still had many other spots that he worked on as well...))... If it is just habit at this point, do you have any suggestions on how to break him of it? We try to get him interested in chewing something, and he takes little to no interest in it. We try a no chew spray, and that only works until it starts to wear off, and we have to pretty much watch him like a hawk to figure out when that is... And it is so hard to get him to stay still for us to spray his leg (It's a two or more person job)... gonk And just when we think he has finally stopped, he'll go back to it again... >.<
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:31 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:17 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:11 am
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Ailinea He may be doing it less because you eliminated a lot of corn from his diet, but still remains because your dad is feeding those crap biscuits. Seriously, ask him to pay for the damn test himself if he's so insistent on it, or tell him to stop giving the treats to him just for a little while (like a month or two) to see if anything changes. If nothing changes, he can start giving him the biscuits again. I mean, come on, is it really that hard for him to stop giving the dog treats?
Apparently it is... We've already tried that and he still absolutely refuses... Of my parents, he's the only one who works, so he'd be basically paying for it either way, but he can't afford it... My mom has even tried telling him how much the tests are, informing him that they can't afford it, and tried to convince him to stop giving him those treats for a couple months and see if that works, but he still absolutely refused. He claims he loves him, but doesn't seem to love him enough to figure out if that is indeed the problem. He doesn't seem to want him chewing on himself any more than the rest of us, and he complains about the cone being constantly on him. But it's the only way to prevent him from chewing/obsessively lick himself. He hasn't had corn in his food for quite a while... The food he was on before my mom had started to get Taste of the Wild was Kirkland's best, which contained no corn, but it did contain rice and I think it had Barley. He had been on the Kirkland's best for about a year or two. He had a lot of corn in his food before that, but ever since I started doing the research and my mom had started getting Kirkland's Best, they had no corn in their food.
@ Akiska: It is definitely really hard to tell the difference between it being a never ending itch and it being habit... >.< I wish it were easier to tell... >.<
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