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I expect there are a number of us who have at some time with our dogs experienced the dreaded "dally rash", which name of course covers a multitude of sins.

One of our Dalmatians has experienced on-going skin problems and we have been through the whole process of anti-biotics, steroids, allergy testing, elimination diet, special shampoos, ointments, creams, homeopathic remedies, you name it we have tried it!

On the allergy front, he showed up with a high percentage against house dust mite and storage mite, so we changed most of the carpets to laminate flooring, bought leather settees and anti allergen sprays to use on the curtains. I absolutely refuse to have plastic blinds!! He still scratched and itched and was very bright pink in places!

At the time he was being fed the BARF diet, which is made up primarily of raw chicken wings & necks, turkey necks, plenty of fresh raw vegetables with supplements.

He was finally referred to a consultant dermatologist, who was the person to put him on the elimination diet, potato and the white fish, Coley for six weeks, during this time although he lost coat and went very thin he did not experience any skin problems. We gradually started to add other things, but nothing really showed any great reaction, although possibly a little itchy after re-introducing chicken as the staple diet.

At this point I started to despair, how were we ever going to get this dog right so I decided to phone up the nutritional & health helpline at Burns. After describing the dog’s symptoms and treatments we decided to start him on Burns Fish and Brown Rice, and I have to say since then we haven’t looked back. His coat his beautiful, he is the correct weight, and apart from the odd problem which is as a result of him crashing through the undergrowth, cutting himself and excessively licking which has caused a little infection we have not had any problems.

I have since then also raised a litter of puppies using Burns Minibites as part of their diet; again I can only say how pleased I have been with the results.

I know there are numerous foods on the market and we all have our favourites, but if you have a dog with skin problems then Burns is certainly worth a try. Chris Cleland