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Originally Posted by amandawash  Have you gotten her tested? Your vet can send a blood sample to biomedical services in TX to find out what the allergens are. Usually, its beef, wheat, corn, soy etc. Not always though. We sent our labs blood in and found he's allergic to rice, fish, tomatoes, spinach, and NUMEROUS other "good ingredients". We put him on Natural Balance venison and sweet potato which are pretty much the only ingredients. He's done fantastic. Just a thought... |
I have 2 yorkies and the other yorkie we have (Samie) we just put her on a liver supplement. Her counts were not super high -the vet said she was just being over cautious. so if we find out she can be on that food too (the Nat Bal-ven& swt potato) we may try that next if no luck with the wellness. so far the wellness has helped only after 3 wks so maybe this will work. Sadie- the one with the skin allergies- is currently losing protein in her urine and we just got good news yesterday that her protein/creatine ratio finally has come down. (orig was 7.2 and is now 1.9) biggggg improvement with that. we will recheck in 3 mos. she is on benazeperil for protein loss.
Samie (with the liver issues) will get rechecked in 3 wks to see what her blood work shows. i have heard that venison is not good for a liver compromised dogs so we shall see. However the vet did say venison for Sadie would be good. But feeding 2 different foods would be hard to do. I wouldn't mind trying it for Sadie though. I think allergy testing is in her future it's just that we are finally getting a break from vet bills. we have spent amounts i never dreamed possible. just a weekly thing for about 5 mos straight. nearly 6000.00 so far. but- we cannot change that and still we will continue to do whatever it takes to get things under control.