My Dog Has Allergies

First, why do you think your dog has allergies? Skin problems, itching, swelling and diarrhea can be a result of many things, including medicines, preventatives and even vaccines. (See vaccine controversy.)

Most likely the problem is caused by a weakened immune system, compromised nutrition, and an overload exposure to certain proteins, chemical complexes, and toxins from eating the same processed foods meal after meal. When you add that to dog meds, flea, tick and heartworm preventatives, along with an overabundance of canine vaccinations, there’s quite a soup of nasty stuff your poor dog has to deal with.

So how do you fix that? Start by changing to real foods like raw meats, a few good pulverized vegetables and maybe some cooked whole grains. If that is unappealing to you, at least get a really good dog food and I don’t mean the ones on the vet’s shelf. (Consider subscribing to Petsumer Reports in the right hand column.)

Unless you have a veterinarian who really understands dog nutrition, you won’t find it there. Nutrition is pretty much an elective course in veterinary colleges since mainstream medicine hasn’t made the connection between nutrition and disease yet. Our pet doctors are wonderful. Unfortunately, most veterinarians receive their food counseling from the dog food manufacturers themselves.

Next, consider the following:

• Use non toxic, natural herbal flea control
• Limit the amount of vaccinations to what is truly needed. Do your homework on this
• Limit vaccines to one vaccine per visit and only when your dog is healthy
• Boost your dog's immune system with human grade, tested and guaranteed supplements

Here’s my own experience. My dog has allergies. Actually two of my dogs are allergic to fleas. They bite and scratch until they bleed and their fur falls out. Pretty sight. Anyway, after the near death experience of my dog Helen from a topical flea medicine (they should change the label to skin absorbing poison); everything changed.

Note: You’ll notice if you read my entire website, I refer to Helen’s near death experience a lot. That’s because it was the turning point for me to see all the things that affect dog health. You can read about it on my dog food nutrition page. It made me question what I’d been taught. It made me research, which infuriated me and made me brave enough to start this website.

After changing my dogs diet and supplementing for awhile, not only did the fleas go away but my dogs' energy increased and some of their gray hair disappeared. I'm not sure my dog has allergies anymore. I haven’t seen a flea and everyone has had a full coat of fur for a few years now.

I still check Helen and Moo periodically for fleas, just in case. The other day, both of them started chewing a bit on their back at the base of their tail. This is the #l sign of flea allergies in dogs and I use no flea medicines of any kind. So far, so good.

Please consider changing your dogs diet to a more natural one. Here at Three Little Pitties, you can learn about the side effects of many popular dog meds such as prednisone (which I recently read causes Cushings Disease).

If you need help with diet, there is a book for sale in the right hand column of this page, called "Going Rawr!" If you seriously need help with diet and healing supplements, contact me.

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