20/10/2026
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Let's be honest: not everyone is using a balanced recipe for their dog and if you cannot balance the diet correctly, then you might as well just feed a kibble.
It makes it more complicated if your dog has skin conditions, whether it's the recurring ear infection, the chewing off the paws, the flaky skin and the constant scratching.
These conditions are now classified as clinical nutrition cases and they have to have specific nutrients at specific levels to be able to get your dog to heal and recover in terms of skin health. When you do not provide this in the diet, the dog will become nutritionally deficient and you will then start to see these missing nutrients as organ health issues. Pancreatitis, kidney disease, diabetes, liver disease etc etc.
Here are my steps you can definitely steal to analyse your recipe at home. Are there any gaps? If so, get that recipe balanced or use a kibble.