bubba and his hair

[magicre]

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i thought i would show you bubba at his worst and bubba taken last night.

[xellil]

My goodness he's a cute dog! And his coat looks wonderful.

[chowder]

So, from what I can see of that ADORABLE squishy face (and I'll admit, my eyes aren't the best), it seems like he is getting his hair back. How is the itching? He looks very content in the second picture!

Do you think it is the change in diet, or removing the salmon, or a combination of both? I'm really impressed with the way you are willing to try a totally new approach to his diet and are open to a whole new way of doing things. I'm going start a 'very' few new additions to Chelsy and see how she does.

[magicre]

the fact that i posted this in the wrong section means i haven't had enough coffee LOL

i was going to post it in the barf section and when i went to look for it, i couldn't find it LOL

um....i'm willing to try anything to get his hair back. this is a pug who has gloriously thick double coated fur and i can see his belly.

i've been able to see his belly since he blew his coat the first year on raw.

we attributed it to one of two things: not enough dietary fat or the salmon oil.

well, the fat intake has increased and we stopped the salmon oil but i'm not so sure that's what it was, since the hair never came back.

the seed mixture, when i grind it properly, seems to be working a little...it's only been a week.....that's why i think on his face, there is a little more fur.....not his belly yet.

we'll see.

i poached wild salmon for them last night....they have never had salmon. that parasite doesn't just make them sick. it kills....so i don't trust freezing for two to four weeks, although many people do.

i will sleep better at night poaching it a little and giving them the poaching water from it. they had that last night, along with some other things.

so far, their poop is not showing undigested food, other than a tiny teeny piece of carrot.

we'll see. :)

if the wonderful mods wish to move this to the BARF section, i'm down with that :)

[DaneMama]

I just love his soulful eyes.

How long has he been on BARF now? Have you seen an improvement since switching?

[magicre]

in all actuality, nat, i think the seeds did it.....the oils from the seeds....

i've only been playing around with certain veggies and fruits for a few days, really...but the seeds i started on the 8th or 9th.

now, he's not totally back....mostly just his face, but both honey and i have noticed he is not as bare on his belly as he was.

there truly was no reason for this and the salmon oil might have been coincidental.

i feed a great deal of variety and red meat, so i don't believe he was ever lacking....

but the flax seed, pumpkin seed, sesame seed, and sunflower seed started working it seems.....after only a few days, like four or five....and i cannot argue with hair. :)

[magicre]

a little bit before that, we also started emu oil, but that did not seem to produce hair. just shine.

[xellil]

I think we have to do what's best for our dogs. I am not ready to move from total raw because Snorkels IS growing her hair back and almost everything is better, but if she were still having ER visits I would be looking at other options - being too stubborn can surely be bad for the dog.

I'm glad you're trying something different. i really hope it works - it seems like it is!

Personally, I hope I don't have to. i remember the days when leaving Snorkels with someone meant 4 pages of instructions for food only, and all the yogurt, beans, pumpkin, olive oil etc etc. That was a difficult time and didn't work anyway - it might have worked better if the starting point wasn't dry dog food, though.

I will definitely try the stuff suggested on the thread I had about Snorkels' constipation if the removal of Cheerios doesn't work. But I'll probably do it one at a time, not all at once.

[meggels]

i love him lol, he's got the big cartoon eyes <3

[magicre]

meghan, that's okay. i covet your dog, too. :)

xellix....we were rolling along, perfectly fine and then one day, he blew his coat and it blew off him and never came back.

we thought it was dietary fat, so we added fat.

we thought it was salmon oil, so we stopped the salmon.

my dogs get approximate 7-10 different proteins at any given time...and lots of red meat, so we thought we were doing great.

could not figure out what was wrong.

and it's been a year.

i'll do anything at this point.