Canine Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD) - Help required
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Hello everybody
Yesterday morning, our Cockapoo, Bertie, was admitted to 'hospital' and to cut a long story short, was subsequently diagnosed with canine IBD (something we had suspected he has had since birth, almost 3 years ago).
He is really rather fussy about food and snubbed some of the more premium hypoallergenic dog food some time ago; we settled on a mixture of Chappie (recommended by vets) and A N Other (more often than not Butchers Choice) and that has worked well for us up until now. During bouts of 'flare-ups' we have resulted the old boiled chicken and rice trick which he loves, his favourite in fact, and this has seemed to do the trick. He has a varied mix of treats and the odd leftover here and there but we try to take care what we feed him as much as possible.
So, the million dollar question... just what should we feed him? My wife wants to make his food rather than buy the canned variety but the vet says just just chicken and rice is not enough for a balanced diet - do you agree with this or could we introduce a green vegetable perhaps to widen the nutrients, maybe adding peas or green beans say?
Any advice on canine IBD or diets recommended for 'treating' it would be greatly appreciated as we need to get uber strict from now on?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Yesterday morning, our Cockapoo, Bertie, was admitted to 'hospital' and to cut a long story short, was subsequently diagnosed with canine IBD (something we had suspected he has had since birth, almost 3 years ago).
He is really rather fussy about food and snubbed some of the more premium hypoallergenic dog food some time ago; we settled on a mixture of Chappie (recommended by vets) and A N Other (more often than not Butchers Choice) and that has worked well for us up until now. During bouts of 'flare-ups' we have resulted the old boiled chicken and rice trick which he loves, his favourite in fact, and this has seemed to do the trick. He has a varied mix of treats and the odd leftover here and there but we try to take care what we feed him as much as possible.
So, the million dollar question... just what should we feed him? My wife wants to make his food rather than buy the canned variety but the vet says just just chicken and rice is not enough for a balanced diet - do you agree with this or could we introduce a green vegetable perhaps to widen the nutrients, maybe adding peas or green beans say?
Any advice on canine IBD or diets recommended for 'treating' it would be greatly appreciated as we need to get uber strict from now on?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Circumstantial evidence suggests people IBS could be related to allergies - so it's likely to be similar in dogs. It might be something in the food the dog is allergic to, it might be an external stimulus that causes the flare-ups. Try and think back about whether there's anything in particular that happens around the flare-ups.
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