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Originally Posted by Elli
She's been on this "vet only" hypoallergenic food for a year that costs a bundle but hasn't helped one bit. I think the natural food thing is the only thing we haven't tried, really. Hmm....
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Its the corn in the food. I have a little miniature pinscher and she has the same itchy skin problems. Dogs are not meant to eat all the processed corn they put in their food, not all handle it well. Even what people think is the good stuff like Iams is really hard on little digestive systems and my dog goes crazy. Its a food allergy.
the only food I have found that they love is this stuff, Canidae. No corn, and they sell it through amazon.com. I have yet to find it at a pet store even.
ingredients:
Chicken meal, turkey meal, lamb meal, brown rice, white rice, rice bran, peas, potatoes, oatmeal, cracked pearled barley, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), millet, tomato pomace, natural flavor, flaxseed meal, ocean fish meal, choline chloride, sun cured alfalfa meal, inulin (from chicory root), lecithin, sage extract, cranberries, beta carotene, rosemary extract, sunflower oil, yucca schidigera extract, dried enterococcus faecium, dried lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation produ
NO CORN.
And it is amazing. If you change your dog to this food in like 30 days their hair gets super shiny. And they smell SO much better, corn in their food is what makes a lot of dogs have super bad breath and their anal glands go crazy.
I've always had little dogs, and their digestive systems are just so much more sensitive. I would advise anyone with stinky dogs with itchy skin to try this stuff and give it a couple weeks. You will be amazed, I was. It took me forever to figure this out too, so I always have to pass this on to other small dog owners.