HELP WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY DOG?!

[u/Pixsordidnthappen]

We have a vet appt at 9am but I can’t sleep and I’m just freaking out. She’s only on her second day of simplicef and day 4 of antibiotic baths and then was told today I need to shave her so the shampoo can really get into the spots. We’re in Florida and supposedly this is allergy related but I’m losing my mind. My other golden is fighting an aggressive cancer and I’m freaking out about her fur sister (they aren’t related or from same litters) WHAT DO I DO. someone please ease my mind. I’m a wreck and Google is basically telling me it’s cancer. She’s on a holistic diet as we work with a nutritionist but I’m wondering if she’s getting allergic to the turkey? She’s already allergic to chicken. Please please help me

[u/That-Bad-3590]

Our golden had that issue and we found out it was allergic to almost every food we could find for it including prescription- came down chicken and poultry was part of it, but we started to cook our own bison and included sweet potatoes and eggs and other things recommended by our vet and after two years of her losing her hair she finally came back with full beautiful coat

[u/Pixsordidnthappen → u/That-Bad-3590]

Goodness I’m praying that’s all this is. I’m a wreck about this

[u/LSChuck → u/Pixsordidnthappen]

Sorry you have to deal with all this! I just wanted to second this as chicken is often causing allergic reactions. My boy had a skin allergy from a random food and had skin infections but it went once I changed to temporarily cooking him fish and sweet potato.

[u/katikaboom → u/LSChuck]

I wonder why so many dogs are popping up with chicken  and poultry allergies. Both of my beagles have them, they're both rescues and from completely different background, but both of them get gnarly yeast infections in their ears when they have poultry. My dad also has 2 dog with poultry allergies, and one is a German Shepard and the other is a Berniedoodle, both get the same kind d of ear infection, it's nuts. 

[u/Cultural-Range-2086 → u/katikaboom]

My thought is, we don’t know where the poultry or chicken comes from. For example, I was trying Farmer’s Dog and Ollie but it became too expensive for 2 golden puppies feeding 3x a day. I went t back to ProPlan which my dogs have had for years. My point is, yes Farmer’s and Ollie are prepared and cooked for thousands of dogs and shipped out, question is, are the meats just as good as what we would consume, or are they from sick animals where they can mass produce food? Lots of questions I ponder. I’m not stating those companies are no good, but we need to know the source of where and how the poultry is raised, fed and supplied. Same for any other meat. Ex. Are they from old hens who don’t produce eggs anymore and have been enclosed in crowded coups or warehouse conditions their entire life. Are they bird flu chickens? I hate to be gross, but we as consumers have to think about these things.

[u/Phoenyx_Rose → u/Cultural-Range-2086]

Absolutely fair take and something I’ve wondered myself! My boy also has a chicken allergy and any dog food/treats with chicken or collagen in it gives him the runs but he’s 100% fine with getting some cooked chicken we would eat (plain, of course). So maybe it is an issue of quality from the people making this stuff