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I wasn't aware that Vaccines sometimes cause allergies until some friends informed us last week at a show, his wool mat is now out of his bed I thought it may have irritated him but as he only sleeps in there of a night and doesn't seem to scratch when in his crate I thought it may have been ok. Thanks for the advice

My Staffords make short work of bones so we have to be careful in what bones we give them, we don't give them any small type of bones or ones that have little nobby bits they could choke on and I guess we have just followed on with our Amstaffs, we have some friends that don't feed bones at all(my guys would think their world had ended lol) we find giving the brisket and lamb shanks to pups that are teething as we feel that it helps getting those tough baby teeth out(rather bones than my furniture)

Not at all, we feed mainly brisket bones and the occasional thigh bone - split to get to the marrow

Yep we are South of Brissy, we have just moved but we're still traveling back to the old vet as Im a bit wary of new vets - if you know what I mean, fear of the unknown I guess

The vet we used to use at the surgery has had a baby recently and we really felt obligated to use them after she went on maternity leave, the new vet is only young and doesn't seem to listen to what we have to say. I've told her that the diet watching wasn't making any difference to him and she just said to keep monitoring his intake We have been looking for new vet but we're worried that we will just have to go through the same stuff again with them. I thought it may have been a mange as he was losing hair but they said that it was too generalized and not in the right place to be demodex or scaropitc. Time for new vet I think, as scary as that is, Im sick of going around in circles.

Ideally, I'd say yes. However, try wheat first. My dogs don't get any cereals but that's hard to do if you still feed some dry. I'd be definitely switching to a rice based kibble though. Do you have a particular one in mind? And do you feed it on its own - no meat?

Hi Settrlrv, The meat we feed is a combination of beef and chicken, I have found that when we have fed roo to our Staffords in the past it seemed to strip weight of them and make them really toned - if that makes sense? I was worried feeding it to our pup would be a bit too much for him, we also kept his sister from our litter and she seems fine - Luca only seemed to get bad about a week after his final vacc Should we stop feeding him rice aswell? ETA: We feed Purina Puppy food (I'm not a big fan of feeding soley dry though) so they only get a small amount a day, along with their wet food.

Hi Tess32, all of our dogs get a bone at least twice a week, I should have said that when I posted what they got for dinner:) Thank you for your thoughts

Hi Poodlefan, We feed all of our guys(both AST & SBT) on a diet of raw mince, cooked rice & pasta and raw veg - we're not big on feeding dry but the do receive about 1/2 cup once a day. I will definitely look up their posts Hi Persephone, Im confinced our vet doesn't care I've asked on quite a few occasions different things about how we can help Luca(our boy) and they just keep telling us to continue on with what they have sold us(shampoos etc) and monitering his diet, they reckon if we give antihistmines, cortizone(can't spell lol) etc that it will just mask his problem I feel so sorry for him and am seriously at my wits end with our vet. I will go and chnage his bedding right now - he has a wool mat. Thank you so much for your advice

Hi Everyone, I am needing some help/advice with our young Amstaff boy, he is just under 6mths of age and is losing his hair around his flank and stifle - its seems to be very even and not patchy. He is red raw on his belly and under arms from rubbing his belly on our grass and on our carpet and I am getting sick of getting up him for scratching. He seems to have gotten worse when we gave him his final vacc and we have been told by some other exhibitors that it is caused by the vaccine and there is nothing we can do about it I have asked our vet about it and they say that it would have nothing to do with the vacc and that it is more than likely food allergies, so we cut him back and started him again with individual foods and it has made absolutley no difference. They have not done a skin scraping as they are sure that it is not any type of mange, they have sold me that many different shampoos and spot - ons since it first flared up, its not funny. If anyone can maybe shed some light on this subject for me, i'd really appreciate it.