Lisa Anderson Facebook ad: “Read this if the scratching won't stop”

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I run a small dog boarding business out of my home in Austin. Last week, a client sent me a text that made me cry at my kitchen table. "Lisa, I have to ask you something. Biscotti has been home for ten days and his scratching is almost completely gone. His belly looks better than it has in two years. We took him to his checkup yesterday and the vet looked at his skin and said whatever we changed, keep doing it. What are you putting in his food over there?" Let me back up. I've been running dogs out of my house for almost 4 years. I take eight dogs max, same families, dogs I know by name. It's not glamorous. It's dog hair on every surface, a yard that smells like a kennel, and 5am wake-ups. But I love it. These dogs are family to the people who leave them with me, and I take that seriously. About a year ago, I started noticing something I couldn't explain. Dogs would come back after a week with me and their owners would message to say the itching had stopped. Or the hot spots looked better. Or the fur was growing back in where it had been thin. At first I thought it was the stress reduction. Less anxiety, more sleep, no work schedule. Made sense. But the messages kept coming. And they were all saying the same thing. Biscotti is a four year old French Bulldog. When Laura drops him off, he's wearing a cone and his entire belly is raw. Pink and flaky and angry looking. She's been managing it for two years. Apoquel, prescription food, medicated baths twice a week. "He's just a sensitive dog," her vet told her. After five days at my house, she picked him up and the cone was off. I hadn't done anything different with Biscotti. Same yard, same routine as the other dogs. The only thing every dog at my place gets, my dogs included, is what I put in their food every morning. I have two Golden Retrievers. Cooper is eight. Buddy is four. Cooper's allergies started when he was five. I know exactly when it began because it was the summer Mark and I moved into this house and I thought it was the new yard, new grass, new everything. He started scratching his ears obsessively. Then his paws. Then he'd drag his face along the carpet until the fur around his eyes was gone. We went to the vet. Then a second vet. Then a dermatologist forty minutes away who charged $400 for a consultation and another $300 for the allergy panel. The panel came back: environmental allergies. Dust mites, grass pollen, a few food proteins. They put him on Apoquel. It helped. It absolutely helped. Within two weeks the scratching dropped by half. I felt like I'd solved it. But it never fully went away. And every few months when I'd pick up the prescription I'd think: this is $360. And Cooper still scratches. Just less. By the time Cooper had been on Apoquel for eighteen months, I'd added Cytopoint injections for the bad seasons. Prescription hydrolyzed food, $120 a bag. Raw food trials. Three different probiotic supplements. Special shampoos. I have the spreadsheet. I made a spreadsheet. Over three years: $15,996. And I was so tired of managing symptoms that I started looking for something else. That's when I found a holistic vet, Dr. Reyes, who does a lot of work with skin cases. She told me something that changed how I understood everything. She said: "The problem isn't the allergens. Dogs encounter allergens every single day. The problem is why Cooper can't handle them." She explained that healthy skin has a collagen layer underneath the surface, a structural barrier, that acts like a seal. When that layer is strong, allergens bounce off. But when it breaks down, the barrier thins. Gaps open up. And now those allergens are getting through the skin directly, triggering an immune response from underneath. That immune response is the itch. "Apoquel suppresses the immune response," she said. "It makes the symptom quieter. But the barrier is still thin. The allergens are still getting through. You're just muting the alarm without fixing what's causing it." She asked me how long we'd been on Apoquel. I said almost three years. She said: "The barrier doesn't repair itself. You have to give it the raw material to rebuild." The raw material is collagen. But here's where she stopped me before I ran to the pet store. She said she'd had six different collagen products brought to her by clients over the past year. She'd had them third party tested. Absorption rates, heavy metal screens, ingredient verification. Five of them failed. Some had less collagen than the label claimed. One had detectable heavy metals in the hyaluronic acid component. Most of them, the chews and the powders, showed an absorption rate between 20 and 30 percent. Because chewed or powdered collagen has to survive digestion before anything reaches the bloodstream, and most of it doesn't. One passed. Liquid collagen, pharmaceutical grade hyaluronic acid as the carrier, third party verified. The absorption rate on liquid is 98 percent. It bypasses the digestion problem entirely. That was Canbloom. I started Cooper on it the next morning. Week three: he stopped scratching his ears before bed. This had been a nightly ritual for three years. Five minutes of furious ear scratching before he'd settle down. It just stopped. Week four: he slept through the night for the first time I could remember without waking me up to scratch. Week six: the dark staining around his eyes was still there but not getting worse, and his ears, which had been chronically red inside, looked pink instead of angry. Month three: I talked to Dr. Reyes and we started tapering the Apoquel. Cut to every other day. Month four: we stopped the Apoquel entirely. Cooper has been off medication for six months. He still has allergies. He always will. But his body handles them now. The scratching that used to run his life, and mine, is background noise. Buddy, my four year old, started showing early signs at around two and a half. A little paw licking, some ear sensitivity. I caught it early. I put him on Canbloom before he ever needed a vet. He's never been on a single allergy medication. Now I look at these two dogs side by side. Cooper, who spent three years on every medication his vet could offer. And Buddy, who's been on $20 worth of collagen a month his whole adult life. The difference in their coats alone stops people at the dog park. Back to my boarding business. After Cooper's results, I started adding Canbloom to every dog that stays with me. Just a splash in the morning. Most of my clients have itchy dogs and are happy to try anything. They know the medication treadmill. Six months in: I've had eleven dogs complete multiple stays. Biscotti doesn't wear the cone anymore. His belly still has some pinkness but the raw patches are gone and the medicated baths are down to once a week. Laura's vet noticed the improvement at that checkup and asked what had changed. A Golden Retriever named Percy came to me with thinning fur along his entire back. His owner thought it was age, he's seven. New fur is growing in on that patch now. His owner cried when she picked him up. A Labrador named Henry who'd been scratching his paws bloody every summer. His owner sent me a photo two weeks after his last stay. Paws look normal. She said it was the first August in four years that she hadn't had to wrap them. I'm not a vet. I'm not making medical claims. I'm a woman who runs dogs out of her house in Austin and spent $15,996 trying to fix one dog's skin before someone told me the right question to ask. The question isn't: how do I stop the scratching? The question is: why can't the skin hold the line? If your dog is on medication and you're still watching them scratch. If you've done the elimination diets and the prescription food and the medicated baths and they still drag their face along the carpet at 2am. Ask that question. Canbloom has a trial offer right now. Link below. https://canbloomstore.com/products/canbloom-premium-liquid-collagen If you try it and it doesn't work, you've lost the price of a vet visit. But if it works the way it worked for Cooper, and the way I've now watched it work in dog after dog who comes through my house, you might be standing in your kitchen six months from now wondering why you didn't ask the right question three years earlier. Lisa Anderson, Austin TX P.S. Cooper's medications at peak: $380 a month. Canbloom: $20 a month. We're saving $360 every single month and he's healthier than he was at five years old. P.P.S. Buddy has never needed a single prescription. If you have a younger dog showing early signs, paw licking, ear sensitivity, seasonal scratching, don't wait for it to become what Cooper went through. The barrier is easier to maintain than to rebuild. https://canbloomstore.com/products/canbloom-premium-liquid-collagen

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