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Hi not sure if I'm replying in the correct place but here it goes.. My 7yr Weimaraner Papas is itching like crazy and is going to rip his ear off unless I constantly intervene. He has had zero vaccinations since I adopted at four months of age. I recently took him off heartworm meds four months ago( my last "holistic" vet convinced me this is the only med dogs truly need) we have a lot of skeeters where I live(open ponds) and we both get bit continually. He has fleas, well a lot less since applying wondercide but now the intense itching. So it could be one or more of three things- food( recently switched to raw Detailed Answers w bones and tripe). Or the wondercide which we used a few years ago w no issues. or something to do w maybe detox of removing heart worm meds.. Note: he has either been on mostly acana/Orijen or a vegan diet his whole life til I learned acana feeds the enslaved animals gmo grains. Papas has slimmed down and the raw diet seemed to be working til now. I'm heavily leaning toward a home cooked vegan diet w lots of raw oils and fermented seed pates. I only applied the wondercide twice btw. I stopped the vegan diet of two years because I noticed a hard nodule in his ribs( not sure how long it was there) anyway thanks for hearing me out and I hope this is in the right place to be heard.
Much love,
Patrick

We have fed a raw diet for 10+ years; but we fortunately feed exclusively a raw wild game diet. We feed wild game scraps deer/antelope/elk/moose year round. We also feed naturally raised pork liver and farm fresh eggs.
The issues with the raw diet if you are feeding store bought meat are going to be the diet the animals are fed, the antibiotics the animals are given, and if they are free range or not.
Even with our wild game raw diet, we feed a daily farm fresh egg with 4 fish oil capsules drained in their eggs daily. Store bought meat lacks the omegas that range free meat has, which is why the coat condition is dry or shedding, etc.