Dog Food Allergies
Recently I had to take my pug to the vet. He was having a myriad of problems, from an irritated eyeball and itchy pink ears to a rash appearing in his back armpits. (can you call them armpits if they are on the back legs?) The vet has suggested that it could be the chicken that is in the food we’ve been feeding the dogs recently.
In my quest to eliminate chicken from Chublet’s diet, I have been looking at the ingredients on many different types of treats, and it has been a bit disheartening. The treats that you find in regular stores are certainly unhealthy, what with all the corn products and meat byproducts. Meat is often the sixth or seventh ingredient on the list, meaning the treats have hardly any meat in them at all.
Chublet likes to eat squishy fake meat type treats, but I quickly discovered that nearly all of these have chicken. If I wanted something healthier, I would have to buy the hard biscuit type treats. If I wanted any meat that wasn’t chicken, I would have to settle for a bacon style treat where bacon was so far on the list it was kind of laughable that they bothered including it as an ingredient at all.
Tomorrow I am going to head to the health food store and see what kind of treats they can offer me. Here’s hoping!
