I have a 15 month old chocolate Labrador who has a bit of a dandruff
problem. Her skin seems to get dry and a bit irritated at times and after
trying a number of different shampoos and no shampoos I'm not finding a
cure.
I stay away from flea treatments except for pyrethram powder if I find a
flea on her and the usual all wormer anti flea pill each month. Can anyone
recommend a good shampoo or perhaps something I can add or delete from her
diet. I feed her fresh meat cooked rare with some vegetables for dinner, a
good quality dry food for a morning snack. Her health is generally
excellent, her coat is shiney and she has plenty of energy.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Steve

Steve wrote:
I have a 15 month old chocolate Labrador who has a bit of a dandruff
problem. Her skin seems to get dry and a bit irritated at times and after
trying a number of different shampoos and no shampoos I'm not finding a
cure.
I stay away from flea treatments except for pyrethram powder if I find a
flea on her and the usual all wormer anti flea pill each month. Can anyone
recommend a good shampoo or perhaps something I can add or delete from her
diet. I feed her fresh meat cooked rare with some vegetables for dinner, a
good quality dry food for a morning snack. Her health is generally
excellent, her coat is shiney and she has plenty of energy.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Steve



Well, I have to agree with Jerry, all commercial food is garbage.
Eliminate the veggies first of all (dogs get absolutely no nutrition
from them since they can't break them down), stop cooking the meat and
add some fish oil and natural vitamin E twice a week. Dump the kibble!

And stop giving her baths. I'd avoid whatever antiflea pill you are
using as well as the pyrethrins and switch to food grade diatomaceous earth.

In article ,
Char wrote:


Well, I have to agree with Jerry,

You two deserve each other. OP - both lunatics, I wouldn't want to join
them if I were you!


all commercial food is garbage.

Which of course, is not true. There is crappy food, there is good food.
Dogs, like people, can have specific allergies. Testing can pinpoint
them at times, but elimination diets are used a lot as well. Finding
the food that works well for YOUR dog may take a bit of trial and error,
but I do believe most skin issues come from within, rather than be
contact-related. KNOWING instead of following the advice of someone
who kills dogs, would be a wise way to start getting a handle on the
issue. Best of luck.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Janet Boss wrote:
In article ,
Char wrote:

Well, I have to agree with Jerry,

You two deserve each other. OP - both lunatics, I wouldn't want to join
them if I were you!

It's so sad that you have to resort to personal attacks but if that's
all you've got....



all commercial food is garbage.

Which of course, is not true. There is crappy food, there is good food.

And all the species appropriate food is *not* commercially produced.
Even most commercially prepared raw diets are stuffed full of
unnecessary ingredients like veggies.

Dogs, like people, can have specific allergies.

True, but to make a long story short the great majority of allergies in
dogs come from grains or vegetables.

Testing can pinpoint
them at times, but elimination diets are used a lot as well. Finding
the food that works well for YOUR dog may take a bit of trial and error,
but I do believe most skin issues come from within, rather than be
contact-related.

Which is real easy with raw. Just stop feeding everything but chicken
leg quarters for instance and see how the allergies go. If they don't
abate switch proteins to beef or pork or lamb or turkey. Then start
adding in other sources of protein one at a time, no more than one a
week so the dog gets a chance to react to it.

KNOWING instead of following the advice of someone
who kills dogs, would be a wise way to start getting a handle on the
issue. Best of luck.


Very true! Funny you should tell the guy not to listen to your own
advice but it's right on the money. Because of your mishandling of a
situation Paul almost killed his dog, the same dog that he can now take
in public places around other people and animals. You are the one that
can't train without painful collars and other crutches that don't work
long term.

Hey Jerry,
Charlie isn't hyperactive, she is actually a very relaxed dog. By lots of
energy I mean she will run with me for quite some time. The off leash park I
take her to has a concrete oval path which I use to exercise while she plays
but often she will choose to do laps with "Daddy" instead. If she chooses to
play with the other dogs she has alot of stamina and will play quite
vigorously for a couple of hours with a few short breaks in between.
The only time she tends to act up a little is when she needs a sleep but
wants to stay up with us. Our dogs spend quite alot of time indoors with us
in the evenings and I think this upsets her sleep patterns every now and
then. If she's over tired she will go into her "It's all about me" mode and
tease us with sneak face licks and toe biting those with ticklish feet.
I know she has an allergy to flea bites as the vet has told us and the small
welts that appear are a bit of a give away. I treat the yard and the dogs
bedding regularly but with an un kept yard next door you can only do so
much.
I'll try your suggestions and let you know how we go.

Cheers Mate!

Amazing, I bought Charlie some fish oil tablets and zinc tablets, rubbed
some aloe vera on her and in 2 days no scratching. I mix the zinc and fish
oil with her food and she's not happy about the taste but the result is
remarkable so far.
I watched her for a few hours this afternoon and didn't see her scratch
once. Now when I bath her it will be oatmeal shampoo and conditioner.
Thanks for the advice guys.

Steve wrote:
Amazing, I bought Charlie some fish oil tablets and zinc tablets, rubbed
some aloe vera on her and in 2 days no scratching. I mix the zinc and fish
oil with her food and she's not happy about the taste but the result is
remarkable so far.
I watched her for a few hours this afternoon and didn't see her scratch
once. Now when I bath her it will be oatmeal shampoo and conditioner.
Thanks for the advice guys.



If you are giving fish oil please remember that it depletes vitamin e so
be sure to give a natural vitamin e to counteract that. It's also good
for the skin as well.