On Dec 27, 2010 08:29pm, CAROL SHENKENBERGER wrote to ROGER NELSON:   
      
      
    >> On Sat Dec-25-2010 21:49, Carol Shenkenberger (1:275/100) wrote to Fred   
    >> Burgess:   
    >>   
    >>  >  Now for your preventive that you use for heartworm/flea sounds like   
    >> it   
    >>  >  would work wonders for my beasties ... the beagle is allergic to just   
    >>  >  about everything I give her (it seems that way), and frontline,   
    >>   
    >>  CS> Look again,  Classic symptoms of food allergy.  Wheat, corn, or soy   
    >>  CS> likely.  Shift food to remove them (all if posible but if not,   
    >>  CS> start with wheat removal).   
    >>   
    >> To that I would like to add that all of the dogs I owned did not digest   
    >> corn   
    CS>   (Corn).   
      
    CS> From what little I can tell from mty own experiences, corn tends (if a   
    CS> problem with a dog) to result more in diharreha (sp?) but less evident   
    CS> in ear or skin issues.  Wheat seems to be the more common culprit there.   
      
    CS> I'm not even faintly suggesting all dogs have food allergies but the   
    CS> ones listed are very very classic for a wheat allergy.  Both of my   
    CS> beagles happen by chance to have issues with grains (not totally sure   
    CS> which, we just swapped all foods to grain free including treats and   
    CS> it's cleared up).   
      
    CS> It's harmless and not that expensiv to try a grain free for 3-4 weeks   
    CS> to see (costs less than the vet allergy tests which are often not that   
    CS> good). xxcarol   
      
      
   Harmless is good, expensive is bad, considering I have 4 dogs and only the   
   beagle seems to be have any problems.  When I got her, I was told she was   
   allergic to the pine bedding that they had her in.  Well, the only pine I have   
   near me is in the front yard and 80 feet away from her (neighbor's tree).  At   
   the time she was 8 wks old she had a pine allergy, they were feeding her IAMS,   
   when I got her home, I switched to Purina puppy and the allergies went away.   
   Now all four get Pedigree and in just the last year she started to scratch   
   more (she is 4 yrs old now), so I don't know what is up with her.  I really   
   think she is doing it for attention.   
      
   Just like my Border mix female, she does stuff she knows that will get her in   
   trouble (like pooping on my bed) if she feels she is being ignored.   
      
   Fred   
      
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