Elimination Diets
Quick Summary
An elimination diet is a diagnostic tool used to identify food sensitivities and allergies in dogs by stripping their diet back to a single, novel protein source. Owners remove all existing foods, treats, and supplements for a period of six to twelve weeks to allow symptoms like itching or digestive distress to subside. Once the skin and gut have healed, individual ingredients are gradually reintroduced to isolate specific allergens. Using a raw food approach simplifies this process by eliminating processed fillers, grains, and hidden additives that often trigger adverse reactions in sensitive pets.
If you think your dog has an allergy, you could try our elimination diet…
This involves taking your dog off everything and just feeding rabbit.
Rabbit is a ‘novel’ protein, which means dogs are unlikely to be allergic to it. Rabbit is also a ‘cooling meat’ which wont raise body temperature or irritate the skin allergy more.
Start feeding single source rabbit for AT LEAST 3 weeks, in this time we would hope to see an improvement in the condition. But to fully clear the skin it may take 6 weeks.
At this point you can start to re-introduce other proteins, please ask for advice when doing this.
