Well, I've been experimenting on Chelsy. She has spent almost 12 years with what I had thought to be food allergies to any meat except venison. But recently I have tried several new brands of venison on her and she got really sick on them so I realized I may have been mistaken all these years. Maybe it was something else in the cheap dogfood that was bothering her besides the chicke or other meats.
I decided to take the advice of the people in the raw section and just give her some plain chicken (in my case it was cooked because she has almost no teeth). She had NO reaction at all to it and loved it. Then I gave her some turkey and she had no trouble at all with that. We followed with pork and still no problems. After that I wrote down all the brands of food that had caused her torment over the years and cross-referenced their ingredients to see what she was probably actually allergic too. The common ingredient in them turned out to be salmon or salmon oil ( I know for a fact that salmon sets her skin on fire and the oil messes up her intestines) , olive oil which tears up her intestines, and possibly oatmeal. It is odd how many foods are now adding olive oil. I don't remember them doing that before.
So, after all these years of depriving her, she is so happy to be getting meat! I have tried her on some California Natural canned food which she loved, and I am going to get her a bag of Innova Senior Plus to try. It is very hard to find any food without salmon oil or oatmeal in it so I will supplement her with chicken and whatever meat we are eating. She is not complaining after all these years! I have to make up for 11 years of feeding her Natures Recipe Venison and Rice.
I decided to take the advice of the people in the raw section and just give her some plain chicken (in my case it was cooked because she has almost no teeth). She had NO reaction at all to it and loved it. Then I gave her some turkey and she had no trouble at all with that. We followed with pork and still no problems. After that I wrote down all the brands of food that had caused her torment over the years and cross-referenced their ingredients to see what she was probably actually allergic too. The common ingredient in them turned out to be salmon or salmon oil ( I know for a fact that salmon sets her skin on fire and the oil messes up her intestines) , olive oil which tears up her intestines, and possibly oatmeal. It is odd how many foods are now adding olive oil. I don't remember them doing that before.
So, after all these years of depriving her, she is so happy to be getting meat! I have tried her on some California Natural canned food which she loved, and I am going to get her a bag of Innova Senior Plus to try. It is very hard to find any food without salmon oil or oatmeal in it so I will supplement her with chicken and whatever meat we are eating. She is not complaining after all these years! I have to make up for 11 years of feeding her Natures Recipe Venison and Rice.