Is your dog on a high quality meat based diet and yet itching incessantly, pooping loose stools, or have low energy levels or behaves moody? Your pup’s discomfort reach their peak during seasonal allergies? All this repeats despite having eliminated every possible allergen contaminants? They are highly likely, signs of dogs with sensitive stomach & skin.
Feeding dogs with sensitive stomachs, certainly is a task that haunts pet parents in most Indian cities, like Bangalore. Nearly every professional in the pet food industry recommends low carb dog food for sensitive skin. And the list of dog friendly prebiotic vegetables are all carbohydrate heavy or have a high Glycemic Index.
We struggled with sensitive skin and stomach in dogs with our very own pet. An Indie, who has food intolerances, seasonal allergies and a sensitive tummy. First, we did an elimination diet to rule out food intolerances. This was specifically targeted to eliminate the protein causing the above mentioned signs. We found our dog to be intolerant to chicken & eggs. Second, we fed our dog a low carb grain free diet. This helped us identify the vegetables that caused a peak in his itching, even when fed moderately. Basically all the starch or sugar rich foods like grain, potatoes, carrot, green peas, beetroot. If you notice the vegetable list includes some of the best prebiotics for dogs. And of course, during seasonal changes we reluctantly administered steroids for him since that gave him the most relief, no matter how short lived.
We realised, we had to work on gut health for dogs with sensitive stomach & skin. As you can imagine, finding natural remedies for dog’s gut health, when your dog is intolerant to starch in any form needed long & multiple trials. We were also intent on narrowing down Indian foods to improve dogs gut health.
Finally after detailed research and multiple trials, we slipped on a “banana”!! That’s where our journey into Gut Health dog food, took a very native turn. The versatile, nutritious and readily available in India vegetable: Raw Banana/ Plantain/ / Balekayi/ Kaccha Kela/ Vazhakkai/ Aratikaya/ Pachakaya/ Kaacha Kola took the limelight.
Raw bananas are used widely in Indian cooking and considered a substitute for potatoes. Raw banana AKA plantains are unripe bananas, typically used as a vegetable in Indian cooking.
Benefits of raw banana for dogs:With our mutt, we’ve fed this meal combination for over 8 months. Here are the results:
Our boy has transitioned further into “pup mode” at the wise old age of 8!
Our Gut Health Meals for dogs, are especially crafted for dogs on a low carb diet since there is very little natural prebiotics included in our low carb meal.
However, any dog can be fed our natural gut health dog meals. As always, start small just to see if the vegetable suits your dog’s tummy.
Feed our Gut Health meals, 2-3 meals a week, during the trial period.
If, after inspecting their poop during this period, and you are confident your dog has taken to plantains well. We recommend feeding your pup with sensitive tummy, one gut health meal and one low carb meal every day.
This works well, especially during weather changes, when their itch reaches it’s peak.
Do this for the first month or two, after which you could go back to serving these healthy meals 3-4 meals a week.
For dog’s suffering from diabetes, include this meal weekly 2-3 times only and their daily meals to be our low carb dog meals.
Two day’s meals a week, of our gut health meals, are recommended for dog’s with no skin issues. And we couldn’t recommend raw banana for dogs more!
