I have a setter who is allergic to the following (been blood tested by Yorks labs at age nearly 10 after almost 6 years of skin probs - he is also allergic to 4 types of mites and is on immune therapy).

chicken
turkey
duck
pork
lamb
maize/corn
soya
oats
cows milk
potatoes

he can only eat
beef
wheat!!
barley
rice
fish
eggs

At the moment, I am feeding him beef with weetabix or rice, some veg and eggs until I get my head round the scenario. I will need to check out carefully some of the terrier mixers on offer.

Does anyone know of any complete foods that would be safe for him to eat? I cant find any and have looked at the /prescription' ones too (have to say Im not a big fan of the usual manufacturers in this catergory but Im desperate!!) Im just thinking if I have to use boarding kennel, BARF only could be a nightmare. Im one of these people that is probaby 50:50 barf and complete for all my dogs but handy if they can eat complete for these odd occasions..

You could try James Wellbeloved Fish and Rice

Personally I'd go 100% for a home prepared diet and bag and freeze portions if needed by a kennel :)

OTOH, I think its Waltham that make a dry complete call "caiplin & tapioca" (sp) but as far as I know it's a prescription diet - however worth asking your vet for a sample.  There may be similarly unusual diets available to the vet pros that we (general public) dont have access to.

Wafcol also do a couple of salmon and ocean fish diets but dont know off the top of my head if the bulking ingredients are on your no-go list :(

HTH, Teri :)

Laughing Dog do a mixer that's 100% wholewheat. I thought their tripe and wheat complete might be good but it has 8% chicken. For kennels tins of fish with mixer might work in the short term.

try this: http://www.fish4dogs.com/cms/default.aspx
I found it very good but the delivery was a problem for me

What about feeding something like laughing dog biscuit meal (should e baked wheat meal, though may have milk added, worth checking, and with that feed Tripe, fish, Beef and the odd egg.  In other words traditional meat and biscuit with a vitamin mineral supplement like SA37.

Is he able to have Rabbit, which would give you another meat source, and often can be courced cheaply.

thx all, yes - was thinking would have to be a traditional meat and mixer with some veg and the odd egg plus supplements. Was just worried that if I took portions along (frozen) and if forgot to take out in time, then if no emergency standby of food that someone may feed him complete thinking it wouldnt do any harm 'just the once' , but I know that in time, on a total exclusion diet, he may react really badly to the known allergens with not having been in contact with them for x months. They could always order a beef and veg curry from the Indian for him
Im not sure about rabbit - its not on the list of things tested for - I suspect that he will be allergic though. The other thing thats not been tested for is goats milk. Would be good if he was ok with that...

Just an odd thought here but I wonder if you could make your own. I'm thinking purely for a visit to kennels not normal feeding at home. I make tuna cake as treats; tinned tuna, wholewheat flour, eggs (splash of olive oil, yoghurt and garlic but they're optionsl) I microwave it so it stays soft but you could do what Laughing dog does and press it out into a sheet and bake it until it's crunchy. I chunks in the freezer but unlike frozen meat it would thaw very quickly if they forgot. Baked hard it would probably be OK if left out for awhile. I don't see why it couldn't be done with beef mince as well.

If you can't find anything on the market he can eat it might be a temporary fix.