Cathy with Audrey...question for you.....
Submitted by Alicia Jay Deuc... on January 23, 2011 - 9:49pmWe have been on raw now for 2 weeks and one day. We have never had an issue with tear stains and now I feel like I can see them coming on. We are feeding chicken and they have had one night of beef. If I remember right you said Audrey went through kind of a "detox" where she got real gunky. Oliver, who has NEVER had a yucky nose rope, now has a brownish gunk in his nose rope and it needs to be wiped out. My question is...did Audrey have this? Does she still have it? Did it go away? Does she have tear stains now?
Thanks!
Same boat
I'm in the same boat as you, I've been feeding raw to out puppy for three weeks now and he started with tear stains a little over a week ago, he's only been eating chicken and turkey so far and he gets bottled water. I'm hoping and thinking it's a detox phase as his body is getting adjusted to the raw diet but I'm not totally sure.
I sure hope it is....
I do not want tear stains!!!!!!! I am crossing my fingers that this is a detox phase.
Me too
Me too, I hope its a detox phase also. hopfully someone else will chime in about it.
Audrey always had smelly tear stains
We put her on Angel's Eyes and it cleared up the tear stains but her face still smelled bad. I was not going to leave her on long term antibiotics so I stopped the Angel's Eyes about the same time we switched her to raw and they did come back.
When we switched to raw they stopped smelling though. And her nose rope got N A S T Y!!! Thick black gunky nasty gooey mess for months! That finally cleared up also. I am sure that for Audrey is was detoxing, she can NOT handle chemicals and processed food, so she had a whole year's worth of garbage to clear out of her system.
She still licked her feet periodically for a long time, until we eliminated absoultey everything from her daily diet that doesn't come from an animal.
Audrey's eyes water, which is why she has tear stains still. The only way to stop it is to kill the bacteria on her skin, which unfortunaltey there is no good way to do without also killing the beneficial bacteria she needs, or stop her eyes from watering, which I don't even know how that could be done. My vet has checked her eyes so many times and her lower lids do roll in a tiny bit but it's nothing really drastic that would justify surgery. Her skin is not red or raw, it is only the hair that is stained.
We have had her on a single protein source when we first switched to raw, but it also had veggies in it and starches make her itchy, plus she was going through the detox. So it's hard to say wether or not food has anything to do with it for her.
We have eliminated chicken entirely from her diet, because that is really the only consistant thing she's had since we started feeding our own raw instead of the pre-made. Maybe it will help some!
Cathy and Audrey