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you could just take up running with the dogs that way you both keep fit only joking well done how long have you been smoke free now ?

if people have a problem with it then A) they are not real friends and you will always have the husky's

welcome Niki,Ian,Loki im sure the cats will be fine it just takes time took us best part of a year to get the cat to go near Jake but now sometimes you catch them laying on the sofa end on end

Welcome to the pack :pawprint:

welcome i have had my husky Jake for about a year and a half and i still feel new lol many fun days to come

thanks for all the input I was wondering if he gets the correct fat/protein content from his food or if i should add something to it and if so what ??? we stopped all treats when he flared up again thinking it could be something to do with the treat but he has had no treats for the past 2 weeks and its no better i think im gonna try him on a dose of the nutrazinc for a couple of weeks see if that helps anyone know how much i should give him ??? the tub says 2.5 scoops but you can increase it if need be i was thinking start him off on something like 4 scoops per day then add maybe 2 or 3 extra if i see no results in 7 days what you guys think?? thanks again for all your help and comments :pawprint:

Meet Jake our first husky he had been with 2 other family's from pup then got too big for them to handle so past him on until we took him on at 14 month unable to sit,walk,stay he didnt even know his name i am happy to say he now knows his name very well he walks great sits,runs with the bike even says please we have fallen in love with everything husky and i would not change him for the world but ........(always a but lol) we need some help Poor thing had some kind of rash or scab come up on his face about 6 months ago ish so we took him to the vets as you do they wanted to do some tests ....skin scrape ect so we has this done they then got the results and told us there was nothing found so i said about zrd after reading up on the forum they said "no its not likely to be zrd thats very rare" told us it will be something he is eating the food he was on at this point was Wag and had been on it since we got him (age 14 month) with no problems then 8 months later he got his first load of scabs/rash so after the vet told us it would be something in his food we started looking around at different foods and changed his food to Skinners Field & Trail Salmon & Rice as it was recommended as being good food about 3 weeks later we started to see his face clear (still cleaning with salt water) and thought wow vet was spot on 6 months on and he has come out in the scabs/rash again so off to the vet again we went only to get told ......."we need to do some tests ie skin scrapes" so at this point i was like we did this 6 months ago and you told us nothing was found!!!!! i am now at a point i dont know what to do and its killing me that i cant sort this problem out :( i have attached a pic of the Ingredients (this is the food he has now) can anyone tell me if this food is correct and how much he should get he is a tad over 20kg at the moment i give him 3/4 scoop twice a day poo is solid mostly and he has plenty of energy (as always) but in the last week he has started to turn his nose up at the food someone also said about a product called nutrazinc so i have got some but don't want to give him any as of yet till i know if its what he needs and how much to give any help or idea?????? i know i have mentioned a few things but this is to try and paint a full picture and i know we have to change one thing at a time but what ???? any help or idea as to what it is would be appreciated (woof woof from jake)

Hello and Welcome

yes been back to vet they wanted to start a load of tests said it could be some kind of mite deeper in the skin we did mention about ZRD but they just said dont think it will be that why do vets always disregard ZRD ???

yeah sometime catch him scratching sudocrem works well tho i changed food a couple month back reading on the new food it has more zinc in than the old and he never had this problem for the 1st 9 months of having him i did read that too much zinc is the same as not enough as huskys have a problem trying to digest it so the body will react to it as if it was not enough so im going to try him back on his old food see what i get then if nothing changes i will then look at giving him a zinc supplement

very cute makes me want another think my boy could do with a play mate

thanks im sure jake would love that everyone likes him will have a look into the Natural Diet dont see many husky by me only see one every now and then

i too have the same problem with my boy jake vet said could not see any problem and gave him antibiotics for 10 days he has finished them and still no better

will do thanks again

lol just been reading that with the mrs thanks andy