Sandy Moore Webboard User Reg: 07-25-2006
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What am I missing? I feed him raw (Omaspride) food and supplement with salmon oil, kelp, alfalfa, Vit C, vegies through blender. Am I missing Vit E perhaps? Would this help? He scratches and bites on himself to relieve his itch, licks his paws. Not all the time, only sometimes, it's not driving him crazy but I don't want to be missing something in his diet. Thanks <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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What am I missing? I feed him raw (Omaspride) food and supplement with salmon oil, kelp, alfalfa, Vit C, vegies through blender. Am I missing Vit E perhaps? Would this help? He scratches and bites on himself to relieve his itch, licks his paws. Not all the time, only sometimes, it's not driving him crazy but I don't want to be missing something in his diet. Thanks <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Have you read any of the threads here about allergies? Try "search" and use "all forums" and type in "itchy" or "allergies" and expand the date range from one to many weeks.
Canine allergies are (in order of frequency): fleas; inhalant/environmental; food. Food is a trailing third.
Yes, you do want to add Vitamin E, because it works with the salmon oil.
IMO, you are helping his immune system fight his allergies with the good diet you are giving. You could stop alfalfa (sometimes an allergen), keeping in mind - again - that food is the least likely culprit.
This is NOT to say food isn't an allergy tool. Allergies are an immune disorder. Appropriate food is a potent tool to enhance the immune system. And many dogs are sensitive to commercial ingredients. Not to mention the stress grain-heavy commercial foods are on the canine system (IMO), which lacks the enzymes needed in the quantity needed to process a lot of grain.
But please read up here, because you're missing a huge resource if you read just this thread.
As the moderators say, "search" is your friend! Not reading the hundreds of discussion posts on your subject before asking your question closes a door to a ton of info that people don't retype every time the same question is asked.
Not at all a criticism -- just pointing out a benefit that I think lots of people miss out on.
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Thank you Connie, I'll add the vitamin E. If that doesn't work I'll keep giving it, but take away the alfalfa for a week or so to see if there's a difference. I did do some reading on the net about itching, and several sites mentioned what you spoke of: fleas, inhalalant/environment, food (which any could apply since I've only had him 13 days and he's in a new place and all) and other causes that didn't seem to apply. I didn't think fleas would be the problem cause my last GSD whom I recently had to put to sleep - advanced kidney disease - never had a problem with fleas in our yard, but one never knows. I'll get some Frontline or Advantix and start that right away. Didn't find fleas on him but it's hard to tell, he's all black. Thanks so much for the input, it's appreciated.
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I forgot to do the "search". I just read all the posts of the topic you posted. One post there hit a bell, about fertilizer. Before my pup arrived I had landscapers come in and remove all weeds and trim oleander bushes from all the leaves from the ground up to 4 feet so pup couldn't reach the leaves (poisonous). They wanted to spray a generic of Round-Up, I said no cause of puppy, they said it wouldn't hurt, I said no (at least 3 times to them and 4 times to the guy who came out to do an estimate). When they left I saw they had sprayed it anyway. Lear, my pup, did walk around where they sprayed but that was about 12 or 13 days ago and the stuff is gone by now. I'm thinking I'll try the baking soda bath as suggested in one of the posts. Thanks again, and I didn't take your suggestion to do the search as a criticism at all.
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Thank you Connie, I'll add the vitamin E. If that doesn't work I'll keep giving it, but take away the alfalfa for a week or so to see if there's a difference. I did do some reading on the net about itching, and several sites mentioned what you spoke of: fleas, inhalalant/environment, food (which any could apply since I've only had him 13 days and he's in a new place and all) and other causes that didn't seem to apply. I didn't think fleas would be the problem cause my last GSD whom I recently had to put to sleep - advanced kidney disease - never had a problem with fleas in our yard, but one never knows. I'll get some Frontline or Advantix and start that right away. Didn't find fleas on him but it's hard to tell, he's all black. Thanks so much for the input, it's appreciated.
Keep in mind that a dog with flea hypersensitivity doesn't have to "have fleas" to have a bad reaction.......... one will do it.
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Keep in mind that a dog with flea hypersensitivity doesn't have to "have fleas" to have a bad reaction.......... one will do it.
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