Lucas Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 Hi, I'm really worried about him as he is starting to go off his food now. He was booked in for a biopsy, but we decided not to go through with it until we have spoken to the vet (who is on holiday for 2 weeks), as we didn't think she had considered ZRD or was even going to test for it!!! I have ordered some Nutrazinc and bought fresh sardines for him, but still feel really anxious that we are doing the right thing We are going away for a few days tomorrow and he is staying at a doggy boarding house with a couple, and I'm getting very worried about leaving him, even though I know he will be well looked after. Any advise welcome...... thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Jones Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 We had this, it cost us around £300 at the vet's for them to try and sell us £15.00 choc zinc tablets, to be told ny one of the staff to Get myself down to tescos and get some immune system Zinc just give him 1 a day till it clears up then 1 everyother day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rose Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 we are using nutrazinc on 2 of ours at present, nutrazinc comes with a tiny long handled white spoon inside, you have to dig for it when you get it. Our boy gets 1 level spoon & the girl with allergies gets 6 level spoons ,one of the tinylevel spoons is 10mg dose. Looks like zrd to me on your sibe. xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted April 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 Thanks guys for your input, I feel like I've hopefully done the right thing xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val (Zebedee) Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 One of my sibes suffers with this, she gets a flare up if she eats chicken wings with the bones - I try now to give her chicken thighs & strip the meat off the bone then the other 2 get the bones. I give them all doggy zinc supplememnts daily but they are expensive & the stuff used by other members would do the same job. Our girl went through biopsies, skin scrapes etc & the results still didn't confirm 100% it was zinc deficiency, the vets don't seem to be aware of the problem with it being a fairly "new" breed unfortunately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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