I live in Southern Arizona and have three dogs with valley fever. I needed to save some money and bought three bags of Natures Domain beef and a case of the canned. I was about a week in feeding this food and suddenly my dogs with valley fever started getting much worse! The youngest a year old that just had a limp and it had gone away started limping again. My seven year old that also only had a limp suddenly was lethargic and confused. Turns out he can’t see well anymore, last night he had a seizure. My nine year old that was the worst off, but was getting better had a massive grand mal seizure. She had another five days later. I was told by my vet that the seven year old didn’t have valley fever (before all this happened) he was just old. But now after feeding this food suddenly has full blown valley fever. I will not be using that vet again because he did have it all along. Anyway when I fed this dog food it somehow increased the infection! For those that don’t live in the Southwest of America. Valley Fever is a fungal infection that everyone has or had at some point. The majority wont even know they have it, you just think you have the flu/cold and get better. Some get sick and will not get better without an anti-fungal medication commonly used is Fluconazole. The symptoms very and you can have anyone of them or all just depends. So whatever is wrong with this food brought down my already sick dogs ability to fight this illness. Causing it to spread rapidly throughout their bodies and making them very sick. I will have to PTS the two older dogs at this point. So my point is all the illness popping up in the Western US could be because these dogs have an underlying illness and the food is just more than they can handle. I will note that my nine year old tested negative for valley fever but still had it (they test for antibodies in the dogs blood from being infected a negative test just means they are not making antibodies to the disease), so don’t think a negative test means your dog isn’t sick. So this food is pushing a stressed body over the edge, so an already ill dog will get much sicker. The healthy dogs are tolerating whatever is wrong with the food and you think they are fine. So if it does this to an already weakened dog what is it doing to your “healthy” dog? Just because they seem okay doesn’t mean they are. Sorry about the long post.
