I don’t actually know what category to put this under. I guess the first question is whether or not there’s someone who know’s a thing or two about veterinary dietary requirements.
My dog has had a problem for a long time where her nose is really dry, rough, cracked and bleeds. Think your dry, callous, cracked heels. We’ve had her to the vet on multiple occasions and the advice has been to put ointment like aquaphor on the dog’s nose. It helps, a little. Not much. We are already feeding her a “good” grain free food that’s got quite a bit of fat in it. Doc did recommend giving her a fish oil capsule every day and see if it helps - it didn’t.
Anyway, a 50lb box of lard got left within reach of the dog and she ate a significant portion of it. Eating several pounds of lard did make her throw up the next day. However, following that, she didn’t want to eat her dog food and would just stare at the box of lard that is now out of her reach. So, we started mixing in a little bit into her food. Low and behold, now she eats her dog food and her nose has mostly healed. Kind of reminds me how my calloused heel is improving on this keto diet.
I need to find out if it’s safe to give my dog some lard with her food. But, for the same reasons I’m not sure I can trust my doc when I tell them I’m eating 70% of my calories from fat and getting 4000mg of salt in a day, I’m not even sure how to validate my vets response when I do ask her. Maybe I should ask my vet if they do keto?