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Originally Posted by bonbon  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. |
This is something I have questioned also. We could always send them the question and they may answer it on the site. But my thoughts on it are that being exposed to something at all (even if it isn't for 2-4 years) could potentially cause an allergy problem. I'm not saying I'd never consider a rotation diet, but I know too often people start rotation to waaaay too many proteins and then when they need a novel one someday, there wouldn't be any left. In a way, I think I've exposed Ellie to too many, but it's too late now. So for those that do a rotation diet, I think they need to be pretty careful about it.