Thursday, June 16, 2011

My pitbull has patches and i need help?

Firs I wanted to say is I took her o the vet so I gave her medical with cream and they told me put eggs to help and do a lot of other things had have her on a high protien diet and check if she has any alligies but seem to cost me over 600 to get her fix to normal she's had a recent litter 4 months ago but the hormones session over pass and I checked for porval and I checked worms and her stool is fine she's in world of trouble and I need the beat answer I can get for guidelines on what I should do

Answer on My pitbull has patches and i need help?

ADD: This was posted in the pet bird section, you may want to try dogs for other suggestions/opinions.


Yes, properly breeding dogs is expensive. It could be due to mange, any number of bacterial/fungal organisms, food or other allergy. As a start I would suggest you change the diet. Nothing too radical but buy a higher quality kibble like EVVO, AvoDerm, Natural Balance. Make this kibble only a small part of your pet's meals by mixing it w cooked eggs, canned mackerel or sardines---no sardines in any of the weird sauces, only water or oil, meat you cook yourself (liver/chicken/turkey/beef), cottage cheese & yogurt are fine to feed, pumpkin (the solid pack kind not the kind mixed w other spices/milk), cooked sweet potato or rice or pasta or cooked beans (from dried).

Is this more work? Well of course, but I began feeding my dogs this way a few years ago and every single skin problem cleared w/i 2 months. I now make batches and freeze about 4 weeks worth at a time (for 5 dogs). Meat, sweet potato or pumpkin, rice, pasta or beans, canned no salt added tomatoes, no salt added peas---this all gets mushed together and added to the kibble. Divide you dog's daily food into a small AM meal & a PM meal. I feed egg in the AM usually but you can do it anyway you want. The most important thing is getting more real whole food into your dog. If I ate the kind of foods I feed my dogs I'd be skinny & healthy. Until a few years ago I was the person saying, "Oh, don't feed your dogs allot of people food, they won't be healthy." I bought into the pet food industry info all the way. Now I know better from personal experience. Real, whole food is better for our dogs just like they're better for us. Common sense.

Keep going to the vet but I promise---a diet change will help. Try it, give it a few months. Good luck.