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Originally Posted by Ellie May

Can you link to where they are contradicting themselves?
Yes, this is actually Ellie's nutritionist and I know many people on YT will disagree with a lot of things on that site (and that's fine ). At the same time, she has way too much education/knowledge for me not listen to her. Now that doesn't mean I'm going to go out and buy a bag of Purina or anything (lol), but a lot of the things online written by people are opinions, not researched fact... So I take her info and find my place in it. For example, I don't feed by-products and I don't recommend foods that contain them, but I also can't say a dog is going to have more medical problems if they eat them, etc.

Let's see if these links work. Food allergy is the area that I thought they may be contradicting themselves, especially when recommending not to feed a rotation diet.
https://www.petdiets.com/faqs/display_faq.asp?ID=90
Darn, I can't find the other FAQ I'm thinking of. The link above says "An animal can only be allergic to a protein to which the pet has been previously and continuously exposed." But the other FAQ said that rotating foods would not help in preventing food allergies. I have to wonder why, when they say allergies can only develop to proteins they have "continuously" been exposed to?

I've only been able to read about half of the Dog Nutrition so far, but I found it very interesting. I learned some things I wish I'd known before. I'm going to try to find time to read the FAQ's in the other categories and see what else I don't know. I liked your sentence in red - that's all any of us can do, really. I always worry about the decisions I make for my gang because I DON'T have the education, knowledge or experience to be comfortable with the choice I make.