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Advice on conducting a food trial for your pet
During the food trial you must make sure your pet only eats the food we have recommended.
A typical food trial will last for at least 6 weeks. You do not need to introduce the new food slowly and can swap straight over to it, though with fussy pets it can help to slowly mix it with their old food.
The diet used for the food trial may not be the diet your pet stays on long term. It is only used to confirm your pet actually has a food allergy.
We are aiming to feed your pet something they have never eaten before, so their immune system is not already sensitised to it.
We will avoid these in any food trials we do. The exact trial we chose will depend on your pets' symptoms and history.
A typical home cooked food trial would include boiled fish and potato, or venison and potato.
We do not recommend raw feeding due to the risk of contamination with Salmonella and Campylobacter, which could make you ill.
These are single protein source diets that avoid the most common allergens.
When choosing a food stick to one flavour and read the back of the packet to make sure it doesn’t have any hidden chicken or “meat” in it. If you aren’t sure then call us and check it is suitable first. Do not always believe the advice of the shop workers!
These are usually hydrolysed diets so the immune system can’t recognise the base protein used in their production.
We most commonly recommend Purina HA because:
If your pet has had a lot of soya or pea protein in their previous diet, we may instead recommend Royal Canin Anallergenic:
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