“My 5 year old Boxer dog has been fed the same diet for four years.  He suddenly developed horrible skin rashes and saw our vet three times. Numerous medical tests haven’t found anything.  My vet now recommends I try a different diet for him as he thinks it could be an allergy to the food he is eating.  I find this hard to believe as he has been on the same diet for so long.  Is it true that he could have suddenly developed this?”

Our regular Ask the Vet feature enables readers to pose a question about their pet to our ROYAL CANIN® vets and nurses. Selected questions will be answered in our newsletters, of course, we will not be able to answer all questions directly and unfortunately not everyone will make it into the newsletters. But we’d love to hear from you if you have any interesting questions about your dog or cat’s general care, health or nutrition, go to www.royalcanin.co.uk/askthevet

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