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WILLIAM MALTESE MOMENT #3

Yes, 100% Gluten-Free, Doggone It!

I’ve an acquaintance in the writing world, Bo Perkins, writer and editor, who was told by her doctors to go on a wheat-free, Gluten-Free diet because of her allergies. She simply ignored them.

Awhile back, though, she adopted a nine-year-old yellow Labrador dog who went into a choking fit that the vet diagnosed as—can you guess?—the result of allergies. The vet’s suggested treatment for the dog—can you guess?—a wheat-free, Gluten-Free diet.

Since the dog had so wormed his way into Bo’s heart that she couldn’t possibly do anything else but try to make his life easier, she started cooking him wheat-free and Gluten-Free food and weaning him off commercial dog foods (the latter laden with wheat and gluten). After four months, the dog was thirty-five pounds lighter and acting like a young pup—able to run farther, faster; able to learn better, faster—without nearly as many accompanying sneezes, wheezes and coughs.

Along with the dog’s improvement, Bo’s health took a marked turn toward the better, as a direct result of her having shared the wheat-free, Gluten-Free food she’d prepared for him. She has fewer allergy attacks and has had zero asthma attacks since her dog and she have—doggone it!—joined the GF Way.