To keep this short & sweet...I am new to the forums, semi-new to feeding raw & not such a new dog owner. Ha
I had been puttering around for quite awhile with the decision to feed raw or not. When I first started researching all you could find was info about the BARF diet & honestly...I don't put that much thought into *our* meals. :wink:
I started thinking about it again recently & found info about the raw diet. I always thought that dogs needing veggies/fruit/random multivitamin/expensive supplement was a bit over the top.
What finally kicked me in the butt to start?? My dutch shepherd Lilly. Not that long ago she ended up eating a kibble that was not her usual kind (it was a sleep over at grannies, ha). That was the start of it all. She had been prone to ear infections before, or so the rescue tells me. After eating this food it has been almost constant. Ear infections, hot spots, itching, rash, smell, the works. Apparently something in the food triggered an allergic reaction & nothing we have fed her has made it better. We are working on pin pointing the item/s but not yet!!
I paid nearly $200 to a vet to tell me she was allergic (duh) & they want me to buy an $80 food to 'try' if that doesn't work then I get to buy a more expensive one & keep going til we figure it out. They said it could take a few years to pin point it with all the ingredients in the different kibbles. I asked...why I don't just feed raw & go from there?? Yeah, they didn't wanna hear that one. So not only do I gotta figure out the food thing I gotta find us a new vet too:wink:
I guess my very simple (or not, ha) question is, for those of you who switched how long did it take for you to start seeing results??
I had been puttering around for quite awhile with the decision to feed raw or not. When I first started researching all you could find was info about the BARF diet & honestly...I don't put that much thought into *our* meals. :wink:
I started thinking about it again recently & found info about the raw diet. I always thought that dogs needing veggies/fruit/random multivitamin/expensive supplement was a bit over the top.
What finally kicked me in the butt to start?? My dutch shepherd Lilly. Not that long ago she ended up eating a kibble that was not her usual kind (it was a sleep over at grannies, ha). That was the start of it all. She had been prone to ear infections before, or so the rescue tells me. After eating this food it has been almost constant. Ear infections, hot spots, itching, rash, smell, the works. Apparently something in the food triggered an allergic reaction & nothing we have fed her has made it better. We are working on pin pointing the item/s but not yet!!
I paid nearly $200 to a vet to tell me she was allergic (duh) & they want me to buy an $80 food to 'try' if that doesn't work then I get to buy a more expensive one & keep going til we figure it out. They said it could take a few years to pin point it with all the ingredients in the different kibbles. I asked...why I don't just feed raw & go from there?? Yeah, they didn't wanna hear that one. So not only do I gotta figure out the food thing I gotta find us a new vet too:wink:
I guess my very simple (or not, ha) question is, for those of you who switched how long did it take for you to start seeing results??