LOL what a joke scientific I went through it twice, dude and it was the only thing that stopped it in my dogs, and my vet does agree. Their health is amazing so whatever, whatever, lol
I am astounded that you feel a dog should have grain, where do wolves in the wild chomp on grain? Where did dogs come from and who told you that grain is good for them? Ask the people who test for allergens in dogs what is the number 1 think they react to? GRAIN! Think back to when you were a kid and what did you see when you walked in yards of people with dogs, white poop everywhere and dogs went to the vet for their yearly exams, unless you contracted something awful then they lived just as long as they do now. Then all of a sudden the dog food companies decided (for their own profit) to throw a ton of fillers, grains and crap in the dog food, and wow amazing now everyone runs to the vet all the time. Where in the world did they get the idea that corn and soy was good for dogs. What is the most common allergies in dogs, corn, soy, wheat, rice. I have a 5 year old lab that I did pay to have tested 3 years ago, and he was allergic to all of the above and then some. He would have break outs that were awful and prednisone is the only thing what clear it up in the last 3 years since I went grain free not a single skin problem ear infection nothing. He had repeated ear infections that would scale and puss, I tried everything the purple stuff you make with witch hazel and stuff as well. Nothing helped till the grain free food.
I adopted an abused basset almost 20 months ago who had yeast so bad you couldn't pet her without your hand getting wet it was horrible, they tried antibiotics out the wazoo to clear it with no affect. I didn't immediately switch her to a grain free because of her health issues when I got her, I didn't want to make too many changes at once and kept her on the food from the foster home. I did my research asked my vet and he agreed it was worth a try and he was indeed amazed by the results, he always comments on my dogs skin, coats and ears. It's GRAIN FREE (by the way when I said Grain Free I indeed meant GRAIN FREE) you state high protein low carb with grain then that isn't a GRAIN FREE food is it? I belong to another basset forum and results in there are amazing as well, since you have no first hand knowledge and are just spouting off why don't you not knock something until you see for yourself? Your simply wrong! Sorry, but you can spout stuff till the cows come home, I wouldn't trade vet bills with you for nothing!!!
Respectfully.
Bo
Had a paragraph that didn't post for some reason so adding to this.
Let's ask any cook about yeast and what you have to do to activate yeast, it must have a complex carbohydrate to activate the cultures. Hmmmm same in the body amazing how those work huh? Well what are grains again loaded with carbohydrates, do you see any relevance here? If "your" theory is indeed untrue then I will contact all the chef's and tell them hey guy in basset forum says your wrong don't add sugar the yeast will be fine! Why don't you stop for 5 min and quit contradicting anyone and everyone on the forum, for every quoted copied and pasted item you put from a book, I can provide you ten more to contradict what you pasted. Just like any other myth out there people refuse to believe in change and when I have seen the results and 100 more people talk about it in my other forum with amazing results you are the first to come and say that is false. Well again I will say dogs with repeated vet trips chronic ear infections chronic skin conditions are amazingly healed when the owners go grain free. How do you explain that?