Meat free dog food

Slightlyconfused said:
Yes, blood tests have ruled that out
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I am really lucky with my dog and although she has lots of allergies her reactions are actually very mild and easily controlled if I am strict with her diet.
Good luck with yours and I cannot recommend purina HA enough, my dog does very well on it and an 11kg bag lasts her just under a month even though she is fed as a 27kg dog, it is between £38 and 45 a bag so affordable too.
 
I feel for you OP, one of our goldies is allergic to beef and quite litteral swells up and itches himself raw if he eats only the smallest amount.

no help at all realy as it is quite easy to exclude only beef from a dogs diet but all meat must be incredibly difficult.
 
Yes I have a veggie dog - in a house/kennel where everything else is fed raw and a bit of Acana!

My dog is 16 and slowly became sensitized to meat proteins (not animal fats though). It started with chicken and beef at about 12/13 and we moved to more and more novel proteins such as duck, fish and eventually kangaroo in specialist exclusion diets. Now she is completely intolerant of meat proteins - she managed to raid the bin at Christmas (visitors werent as strict as we are with closing of doors :( ) and had hemorrhagic diarrhea and was hospitalized for three days.

She's not great on grains either so I feed her Green Petfoods Veggie Dog 100 which is meat and grain free and a small about of Yarrah vegetarian trays. She can have salmon oil without issue. she has a blood panel done every six months and her liver and kidney values have improved drastically on the veggie tx. My vet is on board and agrees she is healthy, holding weight and her bloods are good.

I wouldn't fed a vegetarian diet outside of veterinary treatment and I feel sorry for her watching everyone else munching on chicken wings but she would be dead by now if she was still eating meat.
 
My rescue dog had developed issues related to gut damage from a very high, disgusting roundworm worm burden. She couldn't cope with much & was losing so much weight. On vets advice, we put her on Purina HA. I was sceptical, but it solved the problem and enabled her guts to recover. Managed to introduce turkey, chicken and fish a year or so later once her gut had recovered. But she stayed on the HA as coped best & looked well.
 
My little JRT who suffers with an inflammatory bowel disease is on Purina HA which is vegetarian. She is also on a lot of medication but the strict diet has really helped.

I'd love her to be able to eat meat (and I'm a vegetarian myself...) but it just triggers her off.

Maybe one day we can get her stable enough to challenge her immune system with it, but until then she will stay veggie with the HA.

Sorry -- not wholly relevant, just wanted to add another reason for a vegetarian diet.
 
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