Another update – altho Rafe and I have not been on best friendship terms this last week – at least his coat’s starting to show the effort put in.
He got his first tangle in his feathers on his back legs – because it’s the first time he’s had thick enough feathers to tangle!
His hair has completely grown back over the bald patches from the allergies – and the dead fluffy hair on his back legs is almost gone – replaced with lovely long feathers
His last remaining hotspots have all but disappeared from his tummy.
He finally has a bit of a coat down his sides, so looks less like a thin lab, and resembles a proper flattie now.
His coat is sooooo much thicker than it was – you can feel the difference, and when I groom him I now get more than 3 hairs in the brush. And he’s all shiny!
He lost a fair bit of weight, so I upped the veggie and porridge portion of his feed, I need to weigh him again, but he looks and feels fab.
I’m going to wait until the transformation is complete and put some pictures up, see if I can find some old ones to compare, but he looks like a different dog already.
One thing that surprised me is that the bald patches on his elbow – pressure callouses – have even started to grow over. I had no idea that they could be to do with diet.
