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Originally Posted by BayleighL  I called my breeder and had a nice long chat. Bottom line, we are changing food from Taste of the Wild to Origin, adding homemade bone broth once a day, continuing feeding fresh veggies & fruit, using an athlete's food cream on any spots, using coconut oil on dry skin, using Heartguard chewies instead of Revolution or any shots, and requesting our vet order Ultra for future vaccinations.
She's basically recommending an all of the above approach by reducing challenges to her immune system, treating without meds (as much as possible), using higher quality foods, and improving skin quality. |
It's great that your breeder truly does want to help, but her approach doesn't really make clinical sense to me.
Athlete's foot cream will not address anything but what it's meant for - a very weak anti-fungal (are you fighting fungus...??!). Spreading coconut oil over any dryness will do just that -- cover it up. It doesn't actually treat a single thing. And using a different brand of vaccines...?! Highly doubt that will affect a thing.
Orijen is a very nice food. But why Orijen...? What, exactly, are you trying to achieve via changing foods? There are other foods I'd recommend first. If you're truly interested in more natural eating -- why not then try something like SoJos - where you can add your own cooked or raw meat? That's as fresh as it gets.
If you do suspect actual allergies, that's a whole other can of worms....then you should explore Apoquel, Atopica, or Cytopoint.