has diet or antibiotics had an effect on ur dog

for my dog coursework one of the questions i can choose from is about dog diet and treatment. Thought this might be a good one to pursue but will see what response i get.

this is the question: give examples of diet or medical treatment that has effected your dogs or ur friends dogs. the question does also state family members and 'pets' however i think i would find it difficult to evaluate a diet related or medical problem effected to a human, unless we are talking about sweets with children and hyperactivity??

anyway, ur imput would be much appreciated!

Hi Jen
you probably know this anyway but my eldest dog suffered from food intolerance from being on dried complete food ( a well known brand)
He would get itchy feet which resulted in him licking them and then would get infections so we were back and forth to the vets for many months

after seeing a skin specialist who tested for mites (there were none evident) it was decided to do a food trial just to see if there was a differnece

There was.

since changing diet and keeping an eye on the foods he has there have been no further attacks of this

Hi Jen,

you know that Soph's been on a diet to bring her from 29.5kg to closer to 20-23kg. We've got her previous vets records - she came to us via rescue still weighing 29.5kg and being fed a diet of Hills Prescription Diet (r/d). I kept her on this for a couple of weeks while she settled and gradually changed her to Purina Pro Plan light. She was also now getting exercise (she had no exercise in her former homes). After 3 weeks with us she'd lost a kilo, and now after 9 weeks she's down to 27kg. She's also not getting sweets and chocolate and god knows what else.

I think having exercise has done her more good than anything else though.

Dunno if this helps.

Becs

thanks guys keep em coming!

one of the first antibiotics he ever had also caused him to tremble excessively he had to have another to stop it- was quite frightening -
cant remember the name off the top of my head but its on his files now so they dont give him it again

Both Archie and our previous dog Ben got very hyper when we gave them Pedigree Schmacko's. Needless to say they've gone in the bin now

One of mine has an intolerance to wheat gluten. Makes her really ill

Don't know if this will be of assistance, as it's only my opinion, many people over feed their dogs and under exercise them, they do not burn up all the toxins in their diet, due to inadequate exercise, which in turn leads to illness.

in what way do they get ill