I also turned to very good dog food to help my pup. I ended up with Taste of the Wild. Not cheap. And, likely not the solution to my poor boy’s allergies...since I see that the trend is his skin goes haywire at the end of summer, which is a high pollen/grass seed, etc. time in the Phx metro area. When the cold weather comes and the pollen is down, he goes back to normal. Still, I want a good food that I can trust...so Taste of the Wild is very good. I use whatever looks good/no byproducts/on sale at Petco for a topper. I’ve also been told by many that rawhide is pretty bad for dogs. It made my old bull terrier crazy with the paw licking until I removed ANY rawhide.
It’s all very frustrating. Hope your dog is doing better now...mine is...finally turning cool here.
I sometimes use can food as a topper, vet told me to stop unless I buy blue buffalo canned...according to him, most of the canned stuff has a lot of junk in it. Blue Buffalo canned is 2 dollars a can but I only top her morning feed and with a quarter of a can for it lasts for 4 days. I still have 4 cans of the other stuff and its going in my good will bag for some other dog owner to use...(I am a bad girl but some don’t care what they feed their dogs) probably due to ignorance and not stupidy...they don’t know any better. I didn’t for a long time either.. GG