poiuytrewq
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Can anyone recommend a dry grain free food please, preferably one that doesn’t cost the earth.
My dog has had skin problems for years and we have trialled lots of food and settled on Alpha Sensitive which is salmon and potato (off the top of my head) that he’s been doing really well on.
He was also on a low dose of steroid daily. At Christmas the vet wanted to stop the steroid, he wasn’t keen on long term use and the skin had improved vastly. On stopping things were ok, slight licking of paws but nothing much. Stupidly I gave some different food as the Alpha was out of stock and it all flared up again. Obviously swapped back ASAP but seems that was too late.
Just been back to the vet and he’s on steroids again for two weeks. Personally I’d like to go back to long term. This is my disabled dog and he’s exceeded his life expectancy by 2.5 years so far already so I’m more concerned about quality of life now than side effects years down the line. Being itchy doesn’t feature in my idea of fun life! I didn’t see my normal vet but hopefully next time (2 wk) I can, I think he’d agree.
In the meantime I thought I may try some other food, something totally grain free and see how we go from there. Any suggestions that I can look at please?
My dog has had skin problems for years and we have trialled lots of food and settled on Alpha Sensitive which is salmon and potato (off the top of my head) that he’s been doing really well on.
He was also on a low dose of steroid daily. At Christmas the vet wanted to stop the steroid, he wasn’t keen on long term use and the skin had improved vastly. On stopping things were ok, slight licking of paws but nothing much. Stupidly I gave some different food as the Alpha was out of stock and it all flared up again. Obviously swapped back ASAP but seems that was too late.
Just been back to the vet and he’s on steroids again for two weeks. Personally I’d like to go back to long term. This is my disabled dog and he’s exceeded his life expectancy by 2.5 years so far already so I’m more concerned about quality of life now than side effects years down the line. Being itchy doesn’t feature in my idea of fun life! I didn’t see my normal vet but hopefully next time (2 wk) I can, I think he’d agree.
In the meantime I thought I may try some other food, something totally grain free and see how we go from there. Any suggestions that I can look at please?