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Location: U K
Joined: Jan 2010
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Tear Staining
Sorry to bring this up again, thought folk might be interested in this
For quite a while now I had our boy on RC - he has did well and thrived on it. I was getting complacent
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A few weeks ago I discovered another "hot spot", I know folk will disagree they can be food related however in our experience I feel it is very much related. At the time I changed him onto RC it was a toss up between it and Pro Plan - RC came out slightly lower in fat than PP which is why I choose it. Have since been informed that PP has slightly less oil than RC. However hot spots are sore things and rather than risk more we did a change over to ProPlan.
Now it is amazing in the difference with tear staining. Before he had heavy staining, so much so I was cleaning it every day and using vaseline smeared along the stain lines. The staining has dramatically reduced and that is after only one week
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It remains to be seen what will happen regarding hot spots, time will tell as far as they are concerned however I really cannot get over the difference in tear staining
Incidently we feed our boy on the "light" diets, not because he is heavy but because of the fat/oil contents less oil/fat in their diet appears to have helped the itchy skin problems. However as we are only at the start of the "growing" season I will defer a final opinion until well into the warmer weather regarding itchy doglets