Hi everyone,
I have had four Westies and still have tow of them. They both had shocking skin problems until I was told by a vet that does holistic health.
She advised me to put my dogs on roo mat fit for human consumption (often sold in Coles and some butchers in QLD. She also said to five them raw vegies, no onion of course. We buy thigs such as pumpkin, broccoli, celery, zuchine, carrot, caulie, sweet potato, potato, and anything else we can find like that in the shop. Take it home and put it thru the kitchen whiz, bag it into little zip lock bags and freeze it. they get one serv of this each night with a serv of roo meat sometimes it is mixed with a raw egg. We put things such as oil high in omega from the vet, we used to add flax seed and psyliun husk but have not done that lately however their skin is great. They get a chicken wing to clean their teeth every night afte their meal.
we have a silver Cloud (like a Red Cloud) X Kelpie as well and he has the same and they are all in fantastic condition. The Westies are each 14 yrs and 3 monts and 14 yrs and 6 months of age now and gooing like a pair of beauties.
We travel all around Australia all the time for the last 4 years and it is so easy to keep them in food. It is so cheep too.
They get a huge serving spoon of vegies each in a serve and about 450 grams of roo meet.
I find that if I give them ANY processed food such as some cheese or ham, dog treats, bread etc, their skin breaks out within days.
Oh yes ad as sad as it i to have to keep a Westie with short hair I do that too as we travel with the sun and it helps their skin so much to keep the air to the skin.
When their hair is longer the skin will break out again too.
It is all about their comfort to me, that is the most important thing. I love to see them happy and frollicking about lie a two year old.
Good luck.
Westie Skin Problems