Pharphar!
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my vets ahve put me on the sensitive version of this for my boy, just wondering if anyone knows cheapest place to buy it as its £25 a sack from vets and about the same at pets at home! or a cheaper equivalent too!
royal canin food!!
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CorvusCorax
Deary me...
25 for the small sack or the 15kg?
What is the dog's issue?
What is the dog's issue?
Cinnamontoast
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Seriously, not the best food. There are lots better.
cefyl
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Janah
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You could try Skinners Field and trial sensitive about £26 if my memory serves me right for 15kg.
Jnae
Jnae
Pharphar!
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he's got very sensitive tummy and has a strange itchy patch on his bum. his skin is pretty dry too, he's a lab and altho he tries to eat everything his tummy cant cope. been to vets several times, been deflead, glands done etc etc so they said next step was diet change. The royal canin seems ot have helped him but at £25 for the &kg bag i'll be bankrupting myself!! need something which is soothing for his tummy, helps promote skin condition and wont cost the earth!!!
CorvusCorax
Deary me...
Try aloe vera gel on the dry patch.
Also ask about anti-histamines, it might be a contact/household/plant allergy.
They could also have offered Malaseb shampoo.
He may also be 'hot blooded' and it is high protein levels that are setting him off.
That's well cheap for JWB Janah!
Skinners Duck and Rice is in the low £20s for a big bag.
Have you thought about feeding him raw? Or a simplified homecooked version.
Have a sensitive dog myself, kept getting fobbed off with lots of expensive ideas every couple of weeks, changed vets, yes, much more expensive for one-off consult and drugs but he pinpointed the problem immediately and the dog has been pretty much stable for almost two years.
Also ask about anti-histamines, it might be a contact/household/plant allergy.
They could also have offered Malaseb shampoo.
He may also be 'hot blooded' and it is high protein levels that are setting him off.
That's well cheap for JWB Janah!
Skinners Duck and Rice is in the low £20s for a big bag.
Have you thought about feeding him raw? Or a simplified homecooked version.
Have a sensitive dog myself, kept getting fobbed off with lots of expensive ideas every couple of weeks, changed vets, yes, much more expensive for one-off consult and drugs but he pinpointed the problem immediately and the dog has been pretty much stable for almost two years.
suzysparkle
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Have a look at fish4dogs.
EAST KENT
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A brilliant oil to add for any skin issues is Kernelcoat from POOCHDVD, well tested here on getting great show coats and building up against skin issues ,even in difficult breeds like bulldogs.
Cinnamontoast
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Echo the raw. I keep hearing that dogs with skin conditions improve hugely on a raw diet.
Foxhunter49
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Quite honestly vets know very little about feeding of any animals - in five years of training they spend a day on feed - for all animals.
Royal Canin food is basically rubbish. The ingredients for the ordinary food :-
rice, dehydrated poultry meat, animal fats, maize, hydrolised animal proteins, yeasts, egg powder, beet pulp, soya oil, minerals, veg fibres, fish oil, fructo oligo saccarides, psyliium husks and seeds, hydrolised yeast, marigold extract
1)The first ingredient is rice, a grain and that is not good.
2) Second ingredient is 'poultry' this can be any part of the birds, heads, wings, feathers, feet pigeon, chicken, turkey.
3) Eliminate all dog foods that are not dominated by meat (e.g. have more grains than meats)
If your dog suffers from digestion problems then chances are it is because he has been fed the wrong food and this has caused the upsets.
I am a great advocate for raw and have had many dogs come to me that have 'digestive problems' I start them on green tripe and progress to other meats. It has never failed to work.
If you have to feed dry food then go for a high meat content one that says what the meat is. The less grain the better.
Dogs might have been in captivity for a long time but their digestive tract is still very short compared to herbivores or omnivores (though dogs are now classed as the latter) and by being shorter are not designed to digest grains.
If you do go the raw route, go for tripe to start with beware of feeding chicken with the skin on to start with as this can contain the products given to the birds to make them grow faster and cause more upsets. Once use to one type of meat introduce another.
Royal Canin food is basically rubbish. The ingredients for the ordinary food :-
rice, dehydrated poultry meat, animal fats, maize, hydrolised animal proteins, yeasts, egg powder, beet pulp, soya oil, minerals, veg fibres, fish oil, fructo oligo saccarides, psyliium husks and seeds, hydrolised yeast, marigold extract
1)The first ingredient is rice, a grain and that is not good.
2) Second ingredient is 'poultry' this can be any part of the birds, heads, wings, feathers, feet pigeon, chicken, turkey.
3) Eliminate all dog foods that are not dominated by meat (e.g. have more grains than meats)
If your dog suffers from digestion problems then chances are it is because he has been fed the wrong food and this has caused the upsets.
I am a great advocate for raw and have had many dogs come to me that have 'digestive problems' I start them on green tripe and progress to other meats. It has never failed to work.
If you have to feed dry food then go for a high meat content one that says what the meat is. The less grain the better.
Dogs might have been in captivity for a long time but their digestive tract is still very short compared to herbivores or omnivores (though dogs are now classed as the latter) and by being shorter are not designed to digest grains.
If you do go the raw route, go for tripe to start with beware of feeding chicken with the skin on to start with as this can contain the products given to the birds to make them grow faster and cause more upsets. Once use to one type of meat introduce another.
Cinnamontoast
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