How common are dog food allergies? When it comes to dog allergies, food allergies come in third behind fleas and inhalants. Unlike flea allergies, food allergy symptoms will occur anywhere on their entire body. When we got our puppy at eight weeks old, he was very healthy. We got the food that the breeder recommended [...]
Chicken, turkey, chicken meal, and ocean fish meal, are the first four ingredients you see on the back of a bag of Chicken Soup Dog Food (Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul). This is good start for a food that has gotten several great reviews. Oatmeal, millet, rice, and barley are the grains in [...]
We recently purchased a new type of lamb dog treat for Shadow and Abby. It was Nutro Natural Choice Treats Lamb and Rice Recipe. Will Abby, the Finicky Eater, Enjoy Them? There were a few times with our lab puppy, when I thought I was going to lose a finger due to his eagerness, but [...]
Someone recently asked the question of what food is best for dog hot spots. Well, first we’re starting with the assumption that a dog food allergy is the cause of the hot spots. While this may be the case, there are other causes as well. What are Hot Spots? Dog hot spots are a type [...]
Imagine spending years with itchy skin and bloodshot eyes without any way of making it go away. It bothers you during the day when you try to have fun and is relentless at night when you try to sleep. You try to show your master that you’re miserable, but they don’t understand and simply want [...]
I woke up last Saturday to find Shadow, our 11 month old Chocolate Labrador Retriever, with a swollen eye. At first I thought that he and Gunner (the German Shepherd puppy we’ve been fostering) had been playing a little too rough and Shadow gotten a black eye (or maybe in his case a brown eye [...]
