>  CS> Hills Diet prescription probably.  Bit bogus if you ask me to make it
 >  CS> sold that way. In my case, once i finally 'got it' that grains can be
 >  CS> an issue and tried a grain free, my cat and dog stopped having skin and
 >  CS> ear issues.  Now I have a new to us pooch (Mabel Anne, 20 Novemeber
 >  CS> 2010 adoption, age 14, beagle mix, obviously very elderly for the
 >  CS> breed).  Mabel was toe chewing, skin licking, and has recurrant very
 >  CS> hard to fix ear issues.  Her belly was *raw* with spots she'd taken
 >  CS> down so far they were blood red.  Well, she fixed up fast on the same
 >  CS> food i need for my grain issue dog and the rare treat with grains
 >  CS> appeared to set it off again with toe chewing so I'm guessing she's not
 >  CS> grain tolerant either.  Don't freak, both dogs are beagle mixes and
 >  CS> they are prone to this more than most.  Some web sites give it as as a
 >  CS> 10% incidence in this breed and others list a whopping 40% have some
 >  CS> level of food allergies issues in the beagle breed.
 > 
 > Wow, since we never had dogs, this stuff is new to me. :)
 > 
 > Sounds like you may have to go to an all meat diet then?  AFAIK there's no s
 > thing as a canned dog food without something added, probably not good for he
 > either.

We got a grinder recenty able to handle that (her teeth can't handle raw
meaty bones withough that).  If you add things up, I can get th equal of a
normal dog can for about 89 cents.  It's more the time needed that puts us
off it in full form now.
     xxcarol
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