Luna's Journey

Before the skin problems, there was just Luna, our bright, wiggly Boston. Then, right before COVID-19, everything crumbled. She already lived with epilepsy, and the medications we tried seemed to make both her skin and her seizures worse.

Luna was not okay. She scratched until she sighed, woke through the night, and wore a map of red, flaky patches that made strangers wince. We measured her food to the gram and still watched the scale creep up. We followed professional instructions: injections, lotions, medicated shampoos, pills, and collected opinions from everywhere.
Every voice said something different. Every night, our dog was still suffering.

We tried grain-free. It helped for three years. Then we switched, on a breeder’s advice, to a specific grain-free kibble, and she unravelled. Her body seemed to break out all at once: relentless itching, angry redness, scabs on scabs. She moved like she didn’t want to be inside her own skin. We cried in the kitchen because we had run out of “maybe this will work.”

So we did the only thing left when you’re out of answers: we started over.

No trends. No new miracle bottles. We cooked simple meals at home, plain boiled meat and veggies, the same gentle bowl every day. For her dry patches, we warmed a pea-sized bit of plain food-grade lard between our fingers and patted it on as a soft moisture seal. That was it.

It didn’t flip in a day. But the soundtrack of scratch-scratch softened. The redness eased. The scabs lifted. Her coat began to shine. Her seizures dropped to almost none. The scale drifted to healthy (without underfeeding, she still eats two good meals a day). After four months, our girl looked comfortable again. She slept. She played. She asked for belly rubs instead of relief.

If you’ve ever watched your dog hurt and felt like you were choosing between bad and worse, we see you. We were the people standing in a pile of half-used products while the dog we loved looked back at us, asking for help we couldn’t seem to give. Luna’s story is for anyone who has felt that helplessness and kept going anyway.

Today, at nine, Luna patrols the kitchen, tail swishing, soaking up every “you look so shiny” like sunshine on tile. We didn’t find a miracle. We found simple and simple gave our girl her life back.

Friendly note (not vet advice): This is our family’s experience with Luna. Every dog is different. Patch-test anything new on skin, and stop if your pup shows irritation.