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Hey Everyone! :smile:
My girl Harleigh is having some issues with her skin right now and we're (Vet or me) not exactly sure what is going on. It could be environmental or it could be something else entirely. Our first step would be changing her diet up, get her off of kibble entirely, to see if that helps. If it doesn't.... Well we'll go from there :wink:
Right now she is getting Acana Grasslands in the A.M. and RAW in the P.M. We've been doing this for quite some time now and its worked wonders. Besides the skin issues that have been going on.
The Vet gave me 2 different options. 1) put her on a canned food diet (can still do raw at night though) or 2) put her on full RAW diet.
I thought about doing the canned food diet, but it is just SO expensive. I found a website and I put 6 or so cases of canned food in my cart and it was $170 w/o shipping. That is just WAY to expensive for me.
I'm almost positive that I'm going to go with a full raw diet, but I'm always concerned about her not getting enough of this or enough of that. I mean, I know what percentages she needs of these things, but I'm always afraid I'll mess it up. lol
Another thing I'm worried about is not finding enough space. Right now I've got a small space in the big freezer that I use for her raw, but I can't use much more. I found a used upright freezer for around $60 and I thought about buying it just for Harleigh's stuff, but I have no clue where I could put it! I would have to talk to my parents about that (I'll be a freshman in college this fall; still living at home).
One more thing I'm afraid of is spending WAY to much money than I need to. Which I know doesn't happen if you do it the right way... I've already gotten some ideas for that though, so I'm pretty sure I could deal with it in my own way! :tongue:
Anyways... So those are my main concerns, I guess.
As a side note... Here is my Har-Har with her BFF Phoebe. Poor Harleigh... She can't ever eat in peace
My girl Harleigh is having some issues with her skin right now and we're (Vet or me) not exactly sure what is going on. It could be environmental or it could be something else entirely. Our first step would be changing her diet up, get her off of kibble entirely, to see if that helps. If it doesn't.... Well we'll go from there :wink:
Right now she is getting Acana Grasslands in the A.M. and RAW in the P.M. We've been doing this for quite some time now and its worked wonders. Besides the skin issues that have been going on.
The Vet gave me 2 different options. 1) put her on a canned food diet (can still do raw at night though) or 2) put her on full RAW diet.
I thought about doing the canned food diet, but it is just SO expensive. I found a website and I put 6 or so cases of canned food in my cart and it was $170 w/o shipping. That is just WAY to expensive for me.
I'm almost positive that I'm going to go with a full raw diet, but I'm always concerned about her not getting enough of this or enough of that. I mean, I know what percentages she needs of these things, but I'm always afraid I'll mess it up. lol
Another thing I'm worried about is not finding enough space. Right now I've got a small space in the big freezer that I use for her raw, but I can't use much more. I found a used upright freezer for around $60 and I thought about buying it just for Harleigh's stuff, but I have no clue where I could put it! I would have to talk to my parents about that (I'll be a freshman in college this fall; still living at home).
One more thing I'm afraid of is spending WAY to much money than I need to. Which I know doesn't happen if you do it the right way... I've already gotten some ideas for that though, so I'm pretty sure I could deal with it in my own way! :tongue:
Anyways... So those are my main concerns, I guess.
As a side note... Here is my Har-Har with her BFF Phoebe. Poor Harleigh... She can't ever eat in peace
