Please educate me - WHITE boxers

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I grew up with boxers, my puppy was a white boxer and my aunt and uncle have two boxers atm. One is white and he has allergies. They give him benadryl, their vet told them the dosage and they dose it out to him. No more watery eyes, no more allergies.

Both their dogs are on Gluten Free Diet and are doing great. So look into that.

[Bluey]

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You bet they do! And don’t for one second think that the dog food companies do all this because they’re just spreading out their wonderful research. They give away their food, free, to vet students (as well as employees at stores that sell their food); also, the companies themselves often give much of the nutrition information that’s given to vet students (as well as to employees at stores that sell their food).

If you talk to a Hill’s or Euk rep they’ll give you the same old song and dance, about how much money they put into research. But they never talk about how many dollars’ worth of food they give away free to vets, vet students, and others in the retail business, who then in turn hawk their products for them.

I know this for a fact - I received the SD and Euk song and dance when I worked at a high-end pet food store in college; and now I work at a Big 10 University, where every single vet student is given Iams/Euk dog or cat food every month, for free. And guess where the “guest lecturers” come from when the small animal courses cover nutrition?

And yet, when my dog was sick and required a bland diet, my vet told me quite candidly, “Well, you could buy him SD bland kibble, but you’d be better off just cooking chicken and rice for your dog. Less other crap in there than in the Science Diet!”[/QUOTE]

Are you not contradicting yourself a bit right there?:lol:

All that tirade against that one dog food company, insisting they are brainwashing vet students and vets, then telling us how your own veterinarian didn’t insist you use that one kind of dog food, when it needed a special diet that dog food company provides, since your specific dog could do fine with other sources also?

Doesn’t look that veterinarians are brainwashed as much as you insist, after all.

[wendy]

to try the latest internet dog feeding craze on, especially if it is a dog with special nutritional health issues that need stabilizing.

try looking up some of the “science” supporting Hill’s prescription diets. It’s kind of scary how bad much of it is. And in many cases out of date. Consider their “kidney disease” diets. Haven’t updated the formulas to follow the latest information about how to improve the health of dogs or cats with kidney disease.
Lots of people are also deluded about the “prescription diet” part: they think the FDA or some agency has reviewed the diets and requires them to be sold under prescription. Nope. There’s no legal reason why these foods can’t be sold anywhere by anyone. It’s an agreement between the vets and the dog food companies that keeps them “prescription only”, and therefore they can crank the prices up, make a huge profit off cheap nasty ingredient foods, and line the vet’s pockets as well. It’s a big racket.

There’s quite a bit of good, solid science supporting the feeding of high-protein, meat-based diets to dogs, and none whatsoever supporting the feeding of diets composed of soy and corn to dogs.