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It seems Gemma is allergic to pork as well. Now what?

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#1 ·
So, I don't feed Gemma raw beef because the last time I did, she had major bowel distress for two weeks. She also just didn't seem to do well on her Ranchlands (beef) Acana kibble. She gets Grasslands (lamb) Acana in the morning and a fresh raw meal at night. My problem with the raw meal is that I can't give her beef, and now it seems I also can't give her pork.

She's been eating pork for almost a week now and she has started shedding terribly, her eyes have started watering again, and she's back to itching all the time. This is the ONLY other thing that has been introduced to her diet, so it must be the pork. When this all started before, I had recently started including fresh pork for some of her raw dinners so I am believing that this could be what was causing her itch issues the whole time. Whether the raw beef and kibble made her itchy or not, she did not do well on either so I don't want to give her beef.

Now I'm running out of raw options to feed her. The only other normally available meat here is chicken. Is it okay to give her just chicken for her raw dinner? The grocery stores have beef, pork, and chicken. I actually haven't even seen lamb before. There doesn't seem to be local "butchers" like I am familiar with in the US. There's just one big place that processes and cuts all the meat and distributes it among the grocery stores here. The grocery stores don't even have a butcher or a meat department, so they don't cut or grind any of the meats they sell. So, our meat options are pretty limited to what the grocery stores sell on their shelves.

Grocery stores do have some fish. Are there any types of fish that would be appropriate to feed her? I read not to feed wild caught salmon because there is bacteria in them that can make a dog sick. Is this true?

I hope there's something I can swap in for chicken every now and then because chicken every single night is boring and I know that white meat isn't as good for her as red meat. I just want to make sure she gets proper nutrition. I don't want to feed her 100% Acana because it makes her poop a lot. She only poops 1-2 times per day when I feed her 50% Acana and 50% raw.

I guess the main question here is if there's nothing else to feed her besides chicken, would it be okay to just have her on chicken for the raw portion of her diet?
 
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#39 ·
Hi love! Sorry to hear about Gemma's allergies! Lola has allergies too, I think both environmental and food, but I've never figured out her food allergies. I'm not sure if you have already thought about this, but have you considered Stella and Chewy's freeze dried raw? I think I may try to feed that exclusively to Lola and see if it helps her allergies. It's also really convenient bc you don't have to thaw it, it's always ready to go. Lola also hated ZP and would touch it no matter what I did. Can you get Stella and Chewy's by you?


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#42 ·
My husband seems to think that some chihuahua's are itchy and i may be over thinking it. he's saying maybe we should buy a humidifyer if she does in fact, have dry skin. May try that before switching her food to see. I really don't know if it's allergies or dry skin.
 
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