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Location: Scotland
Joined: Feb 2005
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Just been looking at your website (I thought perhaps you were working for Mars or something!)
I see that your first dog had a tumour at 2.5 years old.
Your second ''He is 8 years old now and Slowing down''
And your third has the dust mite allergy.
Not a good run of luck for you, I am truly sorry to hear about that.
I don't know if it will go in one ear and out the other, but the dog with the dust mite allergy is a black lab 13 now, and has more energy on walks than she did before. It's not just her either. As you are probably aware golden retrievers are not the healthiest of dogs, and are 'old' at 8 years old according to most vets. I know 3 that have been raised on natural food, 15, 14 and 14 (live together) since pups, and the vets don't call these dogs old. They still hunt rabbits and pheasants in the hills where they live. Again, I have numerous examples of dogs living longer when not fed on commerical food, less vet visits (the two boys from the goldies I mentioned went to the vet for blood tests for the first time in their lives at 10 years old - this was for titre testing as they have never been vaccinated either, another story though).
I am not trying to get you to do anything you don't want to do, but it doesn't hurt to look into these things... even if you don't absorb what you read.
Unless you are working for Mars