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I haven't been really good at keeping up with the blog lately- seems like the summer went by so fast!! So quick points-of-interest recap..

In the spring, Kodo started refusing his dinner. And this is a dog that never met a piece of food he didn't like- he even eats lettuce for crying out loud! Soaking the food in water and mixing with canned worked for a while, but eventually he started refusing that too, and only eating pure canned.

We made a vet appointment, they spotted something they thought might be a crack in the tooth so we booked a dental checkup for him. Turned out everything was OK- dentist said he had a chip off one of his molars, and it might have been sensitive at the time when it happened, but it shouldn't be anymore.

We found he would still eat his crunchy biscuits, so we figured maybe switching food brands was worth a shot. After some research, we found out his food brand was not the highest quality in the world, so we hit the Grateful Dog Bakery to find some higher quality stuff to try.
We started him on Fromm, which he absolutely LOVED. Wolfed it down just like he used to. We were about halfway done with the bag when we noticed that he was itching his face a lot and was starting to lose hair around his eyes. By the time we figured out that it was probably allergies, the poor guy had two eye infections, two ear infections, and bald circles around both his eyes so he looked like he was wearing glasses. :(

We ended up switching him to another fairly high-quality food with limited ingredients to test (California Natural- basically only chicken and rice) and that worked fine, everything started clearing up, thank goodness!

I still think it is a little funny that he was on this food with a ton of grains and by-products in it and he had no problems, but as soon as we switch him to a grain-free high-quality food his allergies blew up..