A printable four-stage food-trial and itch-tracking system for dogs.
Digital product - no physical item will be shipped. Because this is a downloadable product, change-of-mind refunds are not available once access to the file has been provided. This does not affect your rights under Australian Consumer Law.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Two weeks. This workbook begins by looking at what is around your dog while keeping the food steady. Changing several things at once can make the result harder to interpret.
About one to two weeks. You work through everything your dog has already eaten, choose the trial food, record where you are starting from, and move across gradually rather than in one meal.
Eight weeks. Your chosen trial diet is held steady and recorded consistently for eight weeks, with a checkpoint page at Food Week 4. If your veterinarian has already prescribed a therapeutic trial diet, follow that plan and use the workbook to track it.
Two to four weeks, sometimes longer. A router asks whether you plan to feed a commercial food again and sends you down the matching path. Each food you test gets its own summary card. Start to finish, plan for about fifteen weeks. This is the structure the workbook follows. It is a way of organising your own observations - your veterinarian remains the person who interprets them and decides what happens next.
MADE FOR REAL LIFE
Most of this book you read once. A small part of it you live in for about fifteen weeks.
The reading is front-loaded. The daily commitment while you are tracking is about ten minutes - short, but it does need to happen most days, because a record with gaps in it is hard to read later.
IMPORTANT TO KNOW
The Itchy Dog Workbook is an educational tracking tool. It is a structured way to observe and record what you see, and to gather that information for your veterinarian.
Itchy skin has many causes, and more than one can be present at the same time. Only a veterinarian who has examined your dog can determine what is happening.
If your dog has raw, weeping, bleeding or infected-looking skin, a hot or painful ear, sudden facial swelling or any difficulty breathing, repeated vomiting or diarrhoea, sudden weight loss, unusual lethargy, or itching so constant that they cannot settle.
The same applies to puppies, pregnant or nursing dogs, older dogs, and any dog with an existing health condition or on prescription medication.
The Itchy Dog Workbook is an educational tracking tool. It does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition, and it is not a substitute for veterinary advice. If your dog is unwell, in distress, or has broken or infected skin, speak to your veterinarian.
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Start with a structured record of what changed, what did not and what happened along the way.
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