What is the best dog food for my lab with skin allergies?
December 2nd, 2007 by admin
Sarah♥ asked:
I have a yellow labrador retriever with skin allergies. I feed her Science Diet for Sensitive Skin but it dosent work. What kind of dog food should I feed her?
I have a yellow labrador retriever with skin allergies. I feed her Science Diet for Sensitive Skin but it dosent work. What kind of dog food should I feed her?
- Posted in Allergies
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:05 pm
if science diet is the one with the yellow by the name then i dont know, but thats what i was going to suggest. i have a family member that used to work for eukanuba and thats another thing i would suggest along with purina.
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:47 am
Munster’s is real good its all natural. Now I hear they have a trial for Prina to make healthy coats but I have used Munster’s for years and My 15 year old dog’s coat is shinny and she still acts like a pup too. I have found it at some feed stores and always find the smaller bags at whole foods.
December 6th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Science Diet is a bad choice. What is she allergic to? A lot of dogs are allergic to grains. Try putting her on Innova EVO. I’ve heard a lot of great things about it from owners who have dogs with allergies. Some dogs are even allergic to lamb. You may need to mess around with some foods a bit before you get it just right.
December 8th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Feed a strictly grain free diet, like a raw prey model diet.
rawfed.com
December 11th, 2007 at 3:59 am
my bichon frises have very sensitive skin, and it was suggested to us that they only eat food with lamb in it, no chicken, beef, etc.
hope this helps!!!
December 11th, 2007 at 5:32 am
Try a grain free food. Grains were never meant to be part of a dogs diet and many dogs have issues with them. Science diet is a poor food that is not much better than a generic brand of food (which should be avoided at all costs for all dogs). There are many brands that have grain free foods or formulas. Innvoa Evo, Orijen, Now!, Go! and many others. rates dog food according to ingredients and nutritional analysis. Most of the 6 Star and some 5 star foods are grain free.
December 12th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
~ You have 3 very good options.
1. Raw diet. Awesome way to go and sure enough it would help out your dog.
2. California Natrual- It is made by Natura. it is made for dogs with sensitive skin and stomachs. It is not a grain free food but has quality ingredients and no recalls or over processed fillers.
3. Grain Free food- This is food like EVO (made also by Natura) Orijen, Wellness Core, NOW (awesome food). Dogs on a grain free food do very well when they have skin sensitivities.
Science diet is one of the worse dog foods along with grocery store food. You over pay for the same garbage they sell at the grocery store for $5.00. The ingredients list is the same. Vets over sell that stuff for profit, there is nothing useful or good about it.
I would suggest looking into those three options as your best bet. Your dog will be so much better off once you get her off of Science Diet. The website for Natura will give a list of locations to buy Natura Products (EVO, Innova, California Natural, Karma) and those specialty pet boutiques will also carry the other foods I listed.
Additional info:
+All dog foods are not created equal. There is a huge difference in ingredients, quality of ingredients and company standards. When wondering what to get or comparing your current food it is best to do as much research as possible.
Your options are a raw diet, which is one of the greatest diets for dogs. To learn more go to. Raw really means nothing cooked; meat, bones and organs. This is not to be confused with allowing your dog to eat cooked bones, cooked bones are harmful, raw bones are not. This is the dog’s ancestral diet. If you think a dog should not be eating raw meat, go back and study wolves. Ask yourself what year was dog food made and then how long have dogs been around without our help of over processed dog food and gravy.
Another option is kibble and wet food. I think a good choice is both. Feeding Kibble 2x a day 12 hours apart and wet food 2x a week in place of 1 feeding of equal calories is a good balance. When you are looking for a healthy dog food it is important that not only the kibble be high quality but the wet food, treats and chews be high quality as well.
Foods to avoid: Pedigree, Beneful, Purina, Iams, Nutro, Alpo, Ol Roy, Mighty Dog, Ceser, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Purina, Royal Canin, Eagle Pack (not to be confused with Eagle Pack Holistic) and of course all grocery store brands i.e. Publix brand dog food, Winn-Dixie brand dog food etc.
These foods have low quality ingredients that can cause allergies, diabetes, bloat, overweight, oily skin, excessive and or runny stool and a myriad of other problems. Most of these brands are owned by companies like Del Monte, Proctor and Gamble, Mars and Nestle. Do you really believe that a company like Proctor and Gamble who makes beauty products, household cleaning supplies, baby items, prescription drugs and many others is the best suited company to make quality products for dogs? 50% of Mars is pet food, 45% is unhealthy snacks like candy bars. Does this sound like the best company to make dog food? All of these companies have one thing in common, they have the advertising to make you believe pictures of meat and veggies and healthy dogs running around on the commercials is what you will get. Knowing the truth about what is in these foods is devastating.
Quality dog foods: Innova, California Natural, EVO, Karma, Wellness, Wellness Core, Orijen, Canidae, Merricks, Artemis, Taste of the Wild, Nature’s Variety, Solid Gold-Barking at the Moon and Timberwolf.
Here are several websites to do your own research, which I highly suggest. A lot of questions here about dog’s health problems are a direct result of the food you are feeding. Read the ingredients label on the back, go to the website and see who owns the dog food, look up the ingredients and learn why it is used and what the pros and cons are. Changing to a healthy low grain, no grain dog food will relieve most of your dog aliments and give you a healthier and happier dog.
December 13th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
I have found that California Natural Lamb and Rice works really well. It’s $50.00 for a 40 pound bag. I have a dog with food allergies as well as a few friends and it is great. You want to look for something that has as few ingredients as possible. A simple recipe. Alot of the crap dog food you find on a grocery store shelf for starters is old and it’s full of fillers, wheat, flour and junk like that. Read your labels. Your best bet is to go to a feed store, not a comercial retail chain. Good luck.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Oooooooooh I have a great answer for this question!!!!!! My dog has verrryy sensitive skin, too. We can only buy one type of flea medicine to put on her or she breaks out! So I feed my dog Purina 1 salmon flavored for sensitive skin. I hope this works on your dog too!
December 14th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
avoid like the plague anything with chicken or gluten in it, chicken has too much protein and anything with gluten isnt a good dog food!
the best thing you can feed is minced lamb and rice, well it worked for my mums westie and he had cronic skin trouble
December 14th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Most vet dog foods are great. What most people don’t realise is that what they are feeding their dogs as treats are the foods that are doing the damage. Never feed a dog breads/grain food or anything else that is not in their food chain. We owners have a habit of giving the crust of toast to a drooling buddy thinking that we are doing them a favour, alas our buddies end up scratching themselves stupid as a result. Try your regular food and ensure that they are getting no extras or are not ’scrounging’ for bad foods (especially on walks when they are good at finding eeuuuw things). Good luck
December 17th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Dogs get food allergies based on exposure to the offending protein, and that can be a grain protein or a meat protein. The best wat to deal with this is to choose a protein that the dog would not have been exposed to in the past. This can be tricky, as this exposure is not limited just to your dog but it’s parents/grandparents.
Normally an elimination diet such as one protein one carb one oil like GO! Natural Salmon and Oatmeal, or California Natural Fish, Wellness Venison and Brown Rice. These are just a few.
As well an Omega 3 such as Salmon Oil act as an anti-inflammatory to reduce the itch.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Here is a site that will show you which dog foods are the best and the worst. I suggest that you get any one of the dog foods that are top rated.
Most of grocery store dog food formulas, like IAMS, Pedigree, Science Diet, Purina,and etc contain “meat and bone meal” which has been known to contain dead dogs and cats that were euthanized in animal shelters. Their bodies are picked up and bought by the truck load by “rendering plants” , that also pick up road kill, dead live stock, and etc. They are shredded, and boiled. They skim off the fat on the top of the “soup” and collected it and sell it to pet food companies as “animal fat”, the rest of the animals’ remains are crushed up, dried and sold to dog and cat food companies as meat and bone meal.
You can read more about it here.
Here is an article where the owner of a rendering plant talks about it. He says that cremating the dead shelter animals would cause pollution, and that rendering them is good.
Here is further information on what you shouldn’t see in the ingredients list in your dog’s food.
Top rated dog foods like Canidae contain good healthy ingredients.