Allergies & canine coccidiosis: plus, should you feed a raw-food diet?
Two management tasks are to keep the dog’s weight down and practice good foot care, i.e., clean the feet daily with an antibacterial wash and ensure the toenails are trimmed short. Then, pursue the allergy issue in more depth. There is a blood test that may reveal allergens your dog is sensitive to, and you might consider desensitizing the dog with a series of injections. Also look into a 60-day feeding trial of one of the good hypoallergenic dog foods, like z/d Allergen-Free by Hill’s Prescription Diet. Continue to use antibiotics and occasional rounds of prednisilone to bring the acute episodes under control. Apparently, your veterinarian already biopsied the lesions, which is good. I suggest also culturing the discharge to make sure the selected antibiotics are the most appropriate. Q (Question) I have a question about raw diets and how effective they are for hunting dogs. I’ve been trying to do research, but I haven’t found anything that really supports this type of nutrition, alth
