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I took him to the vets again today because he has been having trouble with his ears. He's been scratching at them for a while and I got some ear drops for him because they thought it might be an ear infection. It didn't really clear up, so I took him back and apparently he is allergic to tinned dog food.

My dog is allergic to dog food. I have to feed him raw meat now.

Also, he has a new hobby. If I leave the bathroom door open, he goes upstairs, brings the toilet brush down and puts it down in front of me as a present and wanders off. He doesn't do this with any other objects, not even his toys, just my fucking toilet brush.

Weird animal.

I took him to the vets again today because he has been having trouble with his ears. He's been scratching at them for a while and I got some ear drops for him because they thought it might be an ear infection. It didn't really clear up, so I took him back and apparently he is allergic to tinned dog food. My dog is allergic to dog food. I have to feed him raw meat now. Also, he has a new hobby. If I leave the bathroom door open, he goes upstairs, brings the toilet brush down and puts it down in front of me as a present and wanders off. He doesn't do this with any other objects, not even his toys, just my fucking toilet brush. Weird animal.

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[–] THC 3 points (+3|-0)

So the Vet just said he's entirely allergic to dog foods or only a component?

[–] PMYA [OP] 3 points (+3|-0)

A component of dog foods, but apparently it is extremely hard to figure out what he is allergic to. It's difficult because it's hard just to find out what is in different kinds of dog food.

I would rather have him on a meat diet anyway, it's probably healthier for him. Vets also recommended potatoes and rice with meat too.

[–] TheRedArmy 3 points (+3|-0)

Sounds like your dog is designed for the wild life, tearing meat out of his prey like a man-dog.

You should train him to hunt human targets, then sick him on your enemies.

[–] PMYA [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

He's quite a small dog, but he's alpha as fuck.

I was sat in my living room earlier and he literally pushed me along the sofa because he wanted to sit where I was. I think my friend was a bit too lenient with him and he's picked up some bad habits, but he's only a year old so I should be able to train him. He's responding to basic commands a lot better now.

[–] jobes 1 points (+1|-0)

I don't know shit about dogs, or know if I fully understand your North Atlantic slang (I'm assuming 'tinned' == wet), but is dry food fine with him? I mean, don't buy the super shitty dry food that they wouldn't even feed to slaves and shit, but good dry food helps for convenience so you don't always have to do the meat/wet meals, as well as if you aren't going to be home and need someone else to feed him. Maybe he can't have either standard wet or dry food because of the ash content or some shit. They cook that stuff at such high temperatures to break down the bone enough that some of it mostly disintegrates or some shit.

Also, check on the raw meat requirements. Again I don't know dogs, too lazy to look it up, but if you feed a cat only raw meat it will die. Mother fuckers need shit like Taurine, which is largely found in hearts, and other shit found in bones to literally survive. Getting a meat grinder to do bone is kind of a pain and loud as fucking shit.

[–] PMYA [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Yeah, tinned food is wet food. He absolutely hates dry food, I put dry food in with his wet food and he tries to eat around it as much as he can. I think dogs are fine with only eating meat, my grandparents had two border collies on their farm that only ate meat.

I will be giving him other shit though, not just the meat.

[–] jobes 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

Coolio, maybe try starting with the frozen raw meat shit that you thaw hours before and see how that goes. It's fucking expensive and should have all the little things that are needed and you can gauge if he'll eat shit that's below room temp at all. My cats will not fucking touch anything below room temp besides water, so I only get like a 30 minute window to really give them the frozen raw shit before it starts getting sketchy for leaving it out.

I can't buy large cans of wet for them because they refuse leftovers that are slightly cooler...fuckers.

Also, if dogs can just do meat, then boiling or baking is an option. I usually add a breast or thigh when I'm making chicken for the cats that I leave plain and they eat that shit up and go kinda feral for a bit after that. It's pretty cute. It works their meals in with yours too, so kinda cool if they don't need that other shit.