I have a client who has two poodles. One has pancreatitis and the other had stones removed. Now they feed the one Hill's W/D dry and can and the other Royal Canin SO dry and can. Is there a food that is safe for both of them to eat? If not, is there another SO or SD that they could feed the one. He has red eye lids, little puffy...red raw feet..skin is lightly red also.
Haven't looked at canines and pancreatitus, but its one of the issues my older cat has and one of the big things was to cut the fat intate, the W/D would seem to back that up. I'll have to do some digging, but I don't know a thing about stones....
I would not go changing that around. What they are on are appropriate for their individual diseases. If one occasionally gets some of the other's food it's fine but those diets are great for their individual problems.
Yes pawz is right. The male on the SO has puffy eyes..in between his toes are shiny raw looking skin..very sensitive to the touch and he has some redness of his whole body.
Thank you for the links. however it is the one on SO that is really having the problems. They have also treated him for ear infections more then once. Poor man..
I'm thinking he's allergic to something in his food, to get that combination of symptoms, ear infections included. The Royal Canin site isn't ipad friendly....a change in protein would be a place to start though.
Found the ingrediant list, chicken chicken and more chicken....aT least they avoid 'animal fat' so we don't have to guess what animal thats from. I don't know anything about stones and foods to treat with other than increasing the water intake, but I'd highly suggest a different protein to start with.
Do you know what type of stones they were? If the stones were Calcium Oxalate, there are not a lot of low fat diet options that have urinary data... The only hypoallergenic diet I'm aware of that has RSS data is the RC Hypoallergenic HP Small Dog formula (not the regular HP, only the small dog has RSS). This may be a great option for the stone dog, but it's not low fat, so not good for the pancreatitis dog.
If the stones were struvite, we may have more food options because usually infection is a big part of struvite stone formation in dogs, so RSS data will be less important, we can just look for a hypoallergenic formula that is also lower in fat. Purina HA and RC Sensitivity RC are pretty low in fat, and the canned RC low fat diet is chicken free, so although it's not technically a hypoallergenic diet, it may be an option, with a focus on increasing water intake and monitoring for UTIs.
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