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We struggled for MONTHS to figure out our 10 year old Yorkie's allergies. She had been on a fish diet for years. Then she started scooting, twirling and scratching like crazy!! So we tried RX rabbit and potato (13 weeks)-still scooting. Then Rx hydrolyzed protein (soy) (8 weeks)-nope! In desperation, I had the VARL food allergy testing. It shoed a sensitivity to corn, wheat, pork, beef, milk, and soy. Then, the vet's nutritionist had lunch with a rep from Hill's Science Diet who had an allergic dog. The HIll's rep recommended Iams kangaroo and oat. Voila!! I also bought the CA Naturals kangaroo and lentil and I mix them together because I don't want to jinx it! IN a few weeks I'm going to try adding some chicken breast to see how she does.
Latte is a much happier dog. Through all this we found out she was hypothyroid, so she takes soloxine for that. She has a bacterial infection in her skin so she's on antibiotics for a month-the only time she scratched was when we stopped the antibiotic too soon. She also takes a pinch of prednisone, just in case.
It was a looonnnngggg and frustrating road. I had written on this site before trying to get more help and I learned a lot.View Thread



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