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Today I want to talk about the dog food that saved my dog's life
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Hello, my name is Michael from the personal finance website, Michael saves.com
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And this is a little bit of a different video from me, but it's an important one because
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it's about my dog Lucy. When I adopted my dog nine years ago, she had a whole host of problems
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I switched her from food to food. We've been on every type of protein and she had problems with them all after about six months
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She would throw up, have diarrhea, and in one time I had to have her sent to the vet
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for seven days just to get her back up and running and so she could live a healthy life
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With all these vet visits, the bills really started to add up, and I brought her to a specialist
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about two and a half years ago because she developed a separate condition. It was rat tail
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she had thyroid issues. The solution for that was easy. It was thyroid medication, but we
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used that opportunity to also switch her to a different type of food. And I didn't really know
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much about this food and I tried to look for reviews of it at the time and didn't see a whole lot
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So that's why I'm really creating this video. And the type of food that we switched Lucy to was oil canine hydrolyzed protein
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I have the bag here. I'm going to show you right now. Now what it looks like I hope you can still hear me It is a teal bag There is a small dog formula as well as a regular formula and I also think they have a version for cats So this food was a real game changer Since two and a half
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years ago, Lucy hasn't had any sort of episodes, and I really should show you to her. She's sitting
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right here next to me a little camera shy. I have a picture of her on my phone though, and if you can't
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see this picture, I'll link to it in the description below to my Instagram, lots of pictures for her
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there. But really, obviously I'm not eating the food so I can't review it, but I can tell you that
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the dog has no problem with the food. She really enjoys it. And all the issues that we've had
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previously with her throwing up and diarrhea stopped once we switch to hydrolyzed protein
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Now, I understand that this is an elimination diet food. I'm not a vet, so ask your vet about this
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This is a prescription food, so you'll need a prescription from your vet to get it. But what I
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understand is a lot of dogs will go in this for just six months. Due to my dog's age, she's about 11 or 12, we're not exactly sure
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My vet suggested that she stay on this food for the rest of her life
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I have since moved and switched vets and my current vet also agrees with that
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So for a lot of people you may put your dog on this food for a short period of time to determine what going on as far as allergies but if you have an older dog maybe ask your vet like I did what to do and they may suggest that you keep your dog on hydrolyzed protein for the rest of their life
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This food is not cheap. That's something that I want to mention right out of the gate. It is about $40 to $45 a bag
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And the bag I have here is, this is the $40 bag
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It is 8.8 pounds. There are a couple ways to save. The main way that I'm saving now is using the I Bata browser extension
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I bought it is the cashback app, but if you shop using your computer with the browser extension
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you can get cashback in online retailers. So as I mentioned, it's a prescription food
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You're going to need a prescription from your vet, but you can ask the vet to give you the prescription
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and then go to petco.com. Using the I bought a browser extension
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you'll get a little bit of cash back. The last time I did it, it was 10% cashback
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I'll link to all those instructions in the description below on how to use the I bought a browser extension
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how I use it to save money on this food. Another way, if you don't want to mess with the browser extension
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is to set up auto delivery through Petco That will save you a couple bucks a month on the food Another thing since my dog has it appears to have some pretty severe allergies issues with chicken beef venison all other types of food it seems
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I don't give her any other treats. And there I said her favorite word, she just perked up a little bit beside me
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I give her these little kibbles as her treats. So this is her food
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No other special bones or no other commercial foods that are sold at the best
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pet store, it's just this one prescription food. I found that by limiting to just this
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that I've been able to really resolve all the problems for her, and I feel like she's living
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a happier and healthier life than she has in a really long time. So that's my quick review of
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Royal Canaan Hydroized Protein. If you have an experience with this food, I think it'd be great
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if you could leave a comment down in the comments below, because as I mentioned, when I was
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researching it. I couldn't find a whole lot of information about the food out there
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and the more voices, the better for other pet owners who may be going through a similar
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type of situation with a dog who has severe allergies. Thank you for watching, and if you're
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