Case Review (4 of 6)

Diet

The dog is being fed a commercial diet with a mixer.  There is no suggestion of maldigestion or malabsorption; the dog doesn't have diarrhoea, it only occasionally vomits and it defecates twice daily.  So the diet seems adequate.

However, we should note that the owner does give the dog tit-bits and milk having said initially that she only fed it on tinned food and a mixer.  We must regard the history of what it is fed as being slightly unreliable.

The disease is apparently seasonal.  If we can be sure of this and that the food fed throughout the year is much the same, then we can rule out food hypersensitivity.

Thus, if this is a case of allergy then the evidence tends to point towards this as being a case of atopy.