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If you read the well-cited article I posted above, you should do meat stock before or concurrently with new food trials. You have to heal and seal his gut or you’ll potentially create new allergies with the new food’s partially digested proteins leaking out of the gut. Some people and many vets prefer steroids for this. But steroids come with risks. I have been managing Krista’s IBD without steroids for over a year now. I used a bunch of supplements from Vitality Science to heal and seal her gut. It wasn’t always pretty, there was a lot of hit-or-miss, and it certainly was not easy. I still believe in Vitality Science and would recommend their products and especially their customer support. But if I had to do it again, I would have started with the meat stock.How long on the new food should it take before he’s having more solid poop?
I’m willing to give meat stock or canned pumpkin a try, possibly. If it won’t hurt, and could possibly help, I might look into it. I’m not sure if that would be at the same time as switching his food, or if I’d give it a try if I’m not seeing results after switching
The other thing that really helped Krista was a raw diet. But she hasn’t liked a commercial raw since Rad Cat went out business and she snubs my homemade. Except the stock.