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Food, diet, supplements

considering moving our seven year old shepherd lab mix off her stable hydrolyzed prescription diet onto a home cooked diet after ten months of being stable and i need a sanity check on the nutritional adequacy piece and the transition timing from people who have actually walked through this with a sensitive system dog

Hazel is our 7 year old female shepherd lab mix, 58lb, spayed at 14 months, adopted at 11 weeks from a regional rescue, and she has been the most digestively complicated dog i have ever lived with....

Posted by frenchie_obsessed_13•
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wrapping up nine months of methodically working through five kibble brands with our five year old aussie shepherd to fix dull coat and intermittent loose stool and want to share the decision framework that finally got us there because the "just try a limited ingredient salmon" advice everyone gives is wrong for a meaningful percentage of dogs

Echo is our 5 year old australian shepherd, 48lb, generally healthy, no diagnosed allergies, no GI surgical history, just a dog who for the last two years had what i would describe as 70th percentile...

Posted by rawfedfor8years•
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twelve year old miniature schnauzer male got cleared this week to transition off royal canin renal support after eighteen months on it because the latest bloodwork brought his BUN and creatinine back into normal range, our vet is supportive of the transition but is being cautious about which maintenance senior food we move him onto and i want to hear from owners whose dogs have walked this transition successfully because the published material almost universally treats the prescription renal diet as a forever decision and underweights the question of how you actually come back from it

Pickle is a twelve year old neutered miniature schnauzer male, twenty one pounds at a body condition score of five out of nine, on royal canin renal support T for the last eighteen months after a...

Posted by akc_agility_judge_15yr•
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two years into rebuilding our mini dachshunds diet after an IVDD diagnosis at age three pushed us to take nutrition seriously and the published material on dachshund nutrition is dominated by weight management framing and underweights the inflammatory load piece that families managing IVDD need to understand, want to share what the two year arc across elimination work rotation work and supplement layering actually produced

Sancho is a five year old mini dachshund who was diagnosed with type two IVDD at age three after a rear end weakness episode that resolved with crate rest and prednisone but that the neurologist told...

Posted by mini_dachshund_ivdd_diet_arc•
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seven year old shepherd with creatinine and SDMA trending up over three years of bloodwork, our vet flagged the trajectory and the kibble to fresh food switch came up in the conversation, trying to figure out whether the research actually supports the move for a case like this or whether the fresh food community is correlation shopping

Anders is a 7 year old german shepherd from a working line breeder, 82 pounds, lean and well muscled, no clinical signs of any health problem and active enough to keep up with two younger dogs in our...

Posted by shepherd_kidney_values_climbing•
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our 6 year old beagle has been diagnosed with chronic acid reflux after a year of intermittent regurgitation, the GP vet wants to start with a feeding tube trial and the GI specialist is recommending a hydrolyzed diet plus prokinetics, and i cannot tell which path actually addresses the underlying problem

Hazel is a 6 year old beagle, we got her at 9 weeks from a working line breeder, no medical history of note until about 14 months ago when she started doing this thing where she would regurgitate...

Posted by beagle_reflux_6yo_mom•
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Whats the deal with grain free food? Safe or not?

I keep seeing conflicting info. Some people swear by grain free, others say its linked to heart disease. My vet said to avoid grain free but then I see tons of people feeding it with no issues. My...

Posted by patientDogdad88•
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Best puzzle feeders for fast eaters

My dog inhales his food in like 30 seconds. Looking for puzzle feeder recommendations to slow him down. Bonus if its dishwasher safe because im lazy lol

Posted by fetchbob2025•
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