My dog has food allergies

[Miranda]

Oh, I know your pain well. My yellow lab I have posted about on here that's on Rainbow Bridge now ate that brand. We used **** VanPatten's Natural Balance Duck and Potatoe allergy formula in a yellow bag. It's not as expensive as vet rx food, but pretty close. We paid about $50 a bag for it. Very limited suppliers carried it too locally. But, as soon as she went on it she was cured. We tried many other things, but this was the ticket.

She still had some of the foot chewing issues. Before Natural Balance her food literally went straight through her. A lab is a big dog and that makes for one big mess in a crate to clean up first thing in the morning. Bleah.

To this day, I am not exactly sure what happened to her. We have a new black lab now, same breeder, and same starting food. Iams large breed puppy. I am not sure if my yellow girl got triggered by something she ate in the yard? A cheap chew treat? And heavens forbid, post Mother's Day cookout I shared my treat with her in the form of a nice T-bone steak bone.

Then it all came... sick sick sick doggie. She was getting really thin too. After Natural Balance, she got fat. We fed her TOO much. It's a great high quality food with notta weird chemical stuff too.

FWIW... hope your pup gets better.

[Trek420]

When I got my mutt she quicky developed alergies. They had not shown in the pound because I think she just was not eating She soon had little fur on her rear. Her vet said that while we sneeze, get rashes .... dogs get itchy no matter what they are alergic to and thought it's inhaled stuff like grasses.

Avoderm helped some. Then Richard Van Pattens or any food that is no grain was suggested. She now has a wonderful coat

Dogs eat meat. I don't eat much meat, nearly vegetarian but she needs high protein I think

[Cyclenewbie08]

I adopted a dog from a shelter about a year and a half ago. He is a golden retriever/chow mix. He kept getting these horrible hot spots all over his body that looked like burns. It seemed he was constantly on prednisone and antibiotics. We finally decided to have allergy testing done on him and I am so glad we did. We never would have determined all that he was allergic to just by taking certain things away in his food. He is allergic to all meat except for fish, all grasses, all trees except for 2, soy, barley, cats, birds,dust, mold, etc. I now have him on a holistic brand food by Eagle Pak. It contains salmon, sardines, and anchovies. It sounds disgusting, but doesn't smell too badly. He is doing so much better now. I was basically poisoning him by feeding him the food I was giving him. It was a high end food, too. He still gets sores every once in a while due to seasonal allergies, but nothing like he had before.
So my suggestion is, if you haven't done it already, is to have allergy testing done. It cost me about $250 but in the long run it saved me money because every few weeks when I had to get steroids and antibiotics, it cost me $50-75 each time. I know exactly what he is allergic to and found him treats and dog food that fit his needs.

It took about 4-6 weeks to notice a difference in his skin and coat, but he is a happy dog once again(albeit a lot spoiled!)

I hope your puppy gets better in no time. Just wanted to add my 2 cents.

Chris