Lola

Our Jacked Up Lab (likely Jack Russell/retriever mix), Lola, had a second mast cell tumor removed this fall. Her first was removed along with her ear a year prior and was fortunately low-grade. Unfortunately, this second one was a low-high tumor. The recommendation from a few vets was to put her through chemotherapy and radiation treatments despite no other signs of cancer in ultrasounds or bloodwork. This would have meant weekly trips to a vet over two hours away for several weeks, which wouldn't work for our dog-daughter, Lola, who panics and cries in the car the entire time. The average increased lifespan of sixteen weeks seemed silly to us given the likely toll on her health from the stress involved with that course of treatment. Luckily, we got our marvelous, local vet to do a second surgery to get wider margins, and I began reading Dr. Demian Dressler's advice on diet for dogs with mast cell tumors, which advises eliminating as many histamines as possible. Following his advice, I took her off the salmon dry commercial food and put her on Honest Kitchen Chicken Grain-Free. Salmon has high histamine levels which aggravate mast cell disease and raw food or, food cooked at a low temperatures, has very low histamine levels. Honest Kitchen provides an even safer form of raw that eliminates pathogens through the dehydration process they use. The results have been dramatic. Her energy level is as high as it was when she was a puppy, and she now sports a thick, shiny coat. I have never seen her so eager for food. Although we had planned on giving her brother a combination of the old and new diets, Lola's vast improvement convinced us to put our Alaskan Malamute, Hugo, on Honest Kitchen entirely. His coat is wonderfully soft even after a couple of weeks on this new diet. We are thrilled that our canine kids are so clearly healthier on Honest Kitchen, and they absolutely love it. We couldn't be happier.