Hi I Thought I Would Share My Personal Experience With Vetwest Whitfords With Others To Hopefully Prevent Others Having The Same Problem I did With Them .... Ok I Have Been Using VetWest for the last 4 years After first taking my then 5 month Old Staffy There to treat a quite Serious Skin Allergy/condition , At The Time The vet Chose to Use cortisone Because of the quite severe outbreak off the skin . Cool , Short term fix , Appointments made to Allergy test dog etc etc , Quoted over $1000 for full allergy test ! ok now The process of elimination so I'm Told Foods,Enviroment,Grasses, etc "Special Dog Food " $130" a bag Thank you very Much . Then Natural Diet , $$$$ , More cortisone , Ok At This point My dog is now 16-17 Months , And His skin Condition is Terrible , Now The $ Factor Hurts The Pocket , But The Fact That my 4 legged MATE is in so much pain , let alone the constant need to itch hurts more , By pain i Mean out breaks Between webbing on paws top and bottom That are Raw (then Bleed) Then Get Infected and so on and so on ,also on most parts of Body ......More Trips to vet More Creams-antibiotics-injections etc , Now 4 years have passed still no sign of cure or even effective control ... My dog Then cuts his paw and i need to take him to vet , closest one at time was in mandurah , while I'm there getting paw looked at vet notices skin condition and asks me if I've tried antihistamine ???? UM no no one has ever Mentioned it to me in all the visits to vet west whitfords ... third week of antihistamines and my dog has clean , correct coloured skin , not bulging pink welts , is not itching, paws are nearly clear ...... So The Question That Is on my mind is WHY THE F@#K WAS THIS NOT RECOMENDED TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!! VETWEST . !!!!!! Makes me wonder do they really care about my dogs wellbeing or the $$$$ That is generated from all those visits to them !!!!!!!! Thats not including The $1000s We have spent on vet bills,Diets,Creams,lotions,shampoos,etc etc Simple text book cure for skin conditions on a lot of dogs not all, Ive later learnt . So you have been warned ,