Bakers and hair loss?

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I am after some more info on Bakers dog food.

It is a food i have never used for my dogs as i consider it to be full of fluff and colours that have no purpose being in dog food.

However, one of my relatives have 2 staffies and do feed Bakers (despite my repeated attempts to make them see the light!)

Basically both dogs have hair loss. The bitch is completely bald on her underside and around her rump, she has sparse hair on her head and other places. The dog has just started with hair loss on his rump.

They have been to vets and it is not mange (sarcoptic or demodex).

Is it possible that there is something in their diet that is causing it?

Anyone got any shocking truths about Bakers i can tell them!!
 
Sadly it has been my experience that people that don't want to know like that usually do not want to learn the truth about dog food, sometimes they will spend hundreds at the vet rather than look to the diet.

You will never prove that a food is responsible as the dog food industry is all powerful and they fund much if not all research into canine nutrition, so nothing for raw diet there!! The only way is to kick them where it hurts and dont by their useless food, that is the only way to get them to improve it, hit them in the pocket!

But in order to do that you have to do your research and people like that in my experience will not take the time or effort to do that. Dog food labelling is worse than useless with very little information, they can legally hide harmful ingredients and be very vague with the source of their food and even misrepresent a food by calling it chicken and maize for instance when in actual fact there is something like 13% undisclosed bits of chicken in it!!!

There are some bits on labelling in the sitcky on raw food at the top of this forum but I doubt you will convice them or their vets that the food would be a good place to start and when they see the price of higher end food I suspect they will run for the hills, excuse the pun!

If they were mine they would be straight on raw!
 
So are they just accepting the fact that their dogs are bald and not even thinking of changing their diet? A bald dog is not 'just one of those things'.

Bakers has pretty colours and is owned by a company with a huge advertising budget. Just because they can afford to shove it in everyone's faces at every opportunity, does not make it a good food.
 
I've seen dogs before who have had dog food that has something in it that they react to causing their skin to flare up and become irritated. The dogs licked themselves bald.

With all the c**p in bakers it wouldn't surprise me if the dogs reacted badly to it.
 
i know for certain there is absolutely no way they would even consider raw.
And yes they just say 'oh we have a bald dog' and they think it's cute that the bitch looks like a piglet.
We have tried and tried to tell them but have given up now as it falls on deaf ears.
 
I agree with CC it's no laughing matter, though I did laugh a lot at the picture I had after reading "the bitch looks like a piglet", sorry but it did hurt as I have had Norovirus all weekend so I paid for it!

But seriously it's so sad for the dogs as they will no doubt end up on some form of steriods and have all the related problems from that rather than make a simple change in their diet before it's too late.

But some are easily swayed by colours that look like carrots and greens and the power of advertising, not thinking that the dog leaping around in that add has probably not being fed that food! Bit like the time not so long a go when every single crufts winner was fed on Pedigree Chum!!

Some vets must also take a share in the blame for this as food is often the last thing they look at after they have chucked a lot of expensive drugs at the problem 1st! For a highly educated profession their widespread lack of understanding of canine and feline nutritional needs and the wool pulled over their eyes by the feed industry continues to astound me!
 
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Paint Me Proud said:
I am after some more info on Bakers dog food.

It is a food i have never used for my dogs as i consider it to be full of fluff and colours that have no purpose being in dog food.

However, one of my relatives have 2 staffies and do feed Bakers (despite my repeated attempts to make them see the light!)

Basically both dogs have hair loss. The bitch is completely bald on her underside and around her rump, she has sparse hair on her head and other places. The dog has just started with hair loss on his rump.

They have been to vets and it is not mange (sarcoptic or demodex).

Is it possible that there is something in their diet that is causing it?

Anyone got any shocking truths about Bakers i can tell them!!
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I would say for them to try this http://www.poochandmutt.com/2010/07/29/staffy-with-itchy-skin/

But if they won't pay for decent food they probably won't pay for anything else
 
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