Re: food

[Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>]

At 07:22 PM 1/10/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Bo is sensitive to brewer's yeast which is
>often an ingredient in dog food and can
>cause ear problems.  Is it in Canine Caviar?
>Lori

Hey Lori, good thinking!!!  Yes it does, it's #9 on the list of ingredients 
Flax is also in the listing.

Many dogs are sensitive to brewers yeast.  I can't use it at all,  in my 
raw prep most of our's get itchy from it, so this could be heritable and 
worth all of you noting since our dogs are all related.  Also flax can 
cause itching, licking.  Kaycee can not tolerate flax in my raw prep.  None 
of our other dogs react to flax but Kaycee was licking her legs, she has 
never had a sensitivity to anything.  Stopped the heavy use of flax with 
her, all the licking stopped, so this is where I place the "blame" on the 
licking and itching.  I don't know about the ear thing though, we so rarely 
ever have ear infections here even pre raw.  Some of our dogs have never 
had an ear infection:  Kaycee is one of those, it's easier to say who has 
<smile>:  Sprite, Meg, Scarlette. TRiX had a mild one in October which I 
got under control with the prep and directions previously posted, she ate 
some dog food on the road in Canada.

What strikes me as funny is for flea's often you will hear to feed brewers 
yeast and garlic, that it makes the dogs less attractive to the 
flea's.  Well that is all fine and good but if they are suffering from the 
yeast and still itchy, I just don't get it...  I do know that dogs that are 
healthy don't attract flea's as much, so if you find you are having a flea 
problem that is not from contact with an infestation (an infestation of 
flea's will get any dog) I suggest you look at your diet and asses overall 
health...   In other words educate your self on raw feeding and take the 
plunge. <smile>

Gina