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My dog has recently been prone to getting quite scurfy. I have bathed him in gentle medicated shampoo but the following day his skin is flaky again, I have been putting baby oil on him which seems to be helping, but was just wondering if anyone else had had this problem? It seems only to affect the back end of him. He is wormed/flea treated regularly. He also suffers symetrical seasonal alopeccia (sp?) but hasn't gone scurfy with it before. I haven't changed washing powders/food/anything that I can think might affect him.
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Try putting an egg cup of cod liver oil into his feed every other day, does tend to help with the quality of skin/coat. Be a bit careful with the baby oil as sometimes it tends to aggrevate the skin (mildly burns) and because it's oil it stops the skin from breathing. Try Sudacream for his skin (try small patch 1st) as this has zinc in and can be very good fro skin irretation (sp) Can buy it from boots. As long as he isn't in any pain or discomfort try this for a good week and see what happens. Sudacream every other day, it doesn't help to swamp broken skin constantly. Good Luck
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Thank you, will try the cod liver oil. I hadn't realised about the baby oil, but luckily have only been applying it every other day. I had thought about sudo creme as it's great on the horse, but am slightly concerned I may end up with white streaks all over the house!
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Rub it well in and see how it goes for a week or so. If you don't wan to shell out for the cost of cod liver oil a raw egg in his grub will do wonders too.
 
Would not bath too often (or at all if you can help it) as wioll strip natural oils from his coat
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Agree re: cod liver oil - also you can give tinned sardines in oil - which makes their coats lovely and shiny too
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Pumpkin seeds have zinc - which you can add to food - I was told to try that with my dog when he went a bit flakey
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Out of interest - what are you feeding him? Because diet (obviously) affects their skin
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He's fed dry dog food, and I'm ashamed to say I hadn't really thought about alternatives such as feeding raw. I spend so much time making sure my horse has the best diet and since reading the thread on 'what not to feed' yesterday, think I need to make changes in my dogs diet. Do you feed raw? I was thinking of introducing raw to his diet, but am not sure what to start off with, any ideas?
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Also I don't bath him often, only when he insists on rolling in fox poo!
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My eldest has a very dry and flakey coat, it started from when she lost a lot of weight and had to have a cheaper food (Bakers) to help her gain her weight back. Now shes back on her usual (Burns) and it's beginning to clear up, She gets washed once a week with tea tree shampoo after her hydrotherepy treatment, as shes wet anyway. And *touch wood* all clearing up very well.

Usually, none of our dogs are bathed unless needed, i don't remember when i last bathed the others. And shes only getting bathed to help clear up her skin.
 
I feed my dog raw - Feeding raw is ace if you are up for it - and does seem to totally sort skin issues... Is also very easy once you into it
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I can point you in the direction of raw feeding stuff if you like
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and KarynK on here is far more expert than I am at it - she could prob help too.

An alternative in the short term (or for those who wouldn't contemplate raw) is to feed something like Naturediet or natures harvest wet food or burns dry food (not a combo of dry and wet complete food tho - if you want to add biscuits to wet food - add plain laughing dog mixer.)

Ian Billinghurst's books are a great place to start for raw feeding tho. Let me know if you want more help - I can pm you lots of info and good links
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Thank you for replying, I think I'm going to research into feeding raw, if you could PM me some links that would be great, also is it possible to combine feeding raw with feeding dry? Or would that just upset his stomach. Thanks everyone for replying
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