Dog allergies
Dog Allergies and what you can do to make your dog more comfortableArchive for November, 2008
Save Money on Dog Food and Receive a Healthy Pet
All of us are worried about the economy and the cost of dog food for allergic pets.
One of the essentials for me is feeding my dogs. I cut back on everything I can but going to the vet is very expensive and the food for allergies are typically around $56.00 per large bag and around $24.00 per case of canned hypoallergenic dog food.
This is a healthy dog
That is too much for me to pay right now. It is too much to pay when you have to pay the electric bills and the rent and the bare necessities. So I cook for myself and at the same time cook for my dogs.
Here is what I cook for me and my dogs. It’s really quite simple. I go to Costco and get those giant bags of broccoli. I hope you don’t hate broccoli because it has some of the most powerful anti cancer properties of all the vegetables.
I steam broccoli and cauliflower in a big batch, chop it and put into containers. I buy some peeled carrots and steam them and chop.
I buy chicken breasts without bones because you are not paying for skin, bones, fat and it’s fast and easy to prepare. I can poach it or boil it. Don’t cook too long or it will get dry. Remember it doesn’t have very much fat at all.
After the chicken has cooled, I chop it up. I put part of it into containers for myself and the rest for my dogs.
Now I have a good mixture of cancer fighting vegetables and good low fat protein.
For my dinner I make a salad of chopped apples, shredded carrots, sliced celery and some of the chicken breasts.
For the dogs dinner I mix together the chicken, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower together and add a tiny bit of dry kibble if you can afford it. Kibble is mostly corn or wheat so it’s not essential for a dogs diet but it will stretch the food you prepare for them.
Something interesting has happened since I started cooking for my dogs. They seem to love what I cook and their coats are shinier and their eyes are sparkling and ears pricked. And most importantly, their bouts with allergies has lessened.
You will have to experiment with the vegetables because your dog just might have an allergy to one of them so try them out and see what works.
Good luck in these hard times.
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In America’s last wild places, endangered wildlife such as polar bears, wolves, and whales are already facing mounting habitat destruction from industrial development, global warming and other harmful activity. Now, the Bush Administration wants to weaken the Endangered Species Act – our nation’s safety net for plants and animals on the brink of extinction — by allowing government agencies with no formal wildlife experience to decide the fate of imperiled species. If enacted, endangered wildlife would be even more vulnerable to threats from logging, drilling and other development.
Last spring, the Bush Administration moved to strip gray wolves in the Northern Rockies of their endangered species protection and leave them vulnerable to mass killing. In September, it withdrew that plan under legal pressure from NRDC. Now, in its final days in office, the Bush Administration wants to ram through a new “License to Kill” plan that could lead to the massacre of hundreds of wolves in the Northern Rockies.
My dog has a new allergy and it’s untreatable so far
I have two West Highland White Terriers and my female dog is 8 years old and has never had allergies until now. Somehow she has gotten a skin allergy that nothing will help. I’ve taken her into my vet four times and four times he has prescribed antibiotics. Each time the antibiotics have made the scabby sores, that have developed all over her body except her head, go away. As soon as the antibiotics are stopped the sores come back. I don’t know why the antibiotics help her to get better and then when they are stopped her condition comes back.
I’m at my wits end. My vet says it must be a food allergy but she has always been on Hills Prescription Diet because my other dog is on it. It just seemed easier to feed both of them the same food.
Now my vet is telling me to go to a skin specialist to find out what is wrong with my dog. Am I getting the run around? I have spent litterally thousands of dollars on allergy food, medications and vet visits. Now I have to go to a specialist? What’s that going to cost me?
How many people are in my position and where can I find some help? If anyone knows where/what kind of doctor I should go to please share it with me. I’m literally at my wits end with these problems.
Thank you.
