About AllerPaws
Who makes this, where the information comes from, and how it's funded. Stated plainly, because a health site that's vague about those things has earned your suspicion.
AllerPaws is made by the team behind AllerNote, an allergen scanner for people with diagnosed contact allergies. We built that after watching how much work it takes to shop safely once a dermatologist hands you a list of things to avoid. The pet version turned out to be worse, because the labels are less regulated and the diagnosis takes eight weeks.
Where the information comes from
The guides are written against veterinary consensus sources — teaching hospital and specialist-college material, and peer-reviewed work on food trials — rather than rewritten from other blogs. Where the evidence is genuinely uncertain, or where a common claim doesn't hold up, we say so instead of picking the tidier answer.
We are not veterinarians, and nothing here is reviewed by one. That's why every health page says so at the top rather than in the small print, and why the endpoint of every guide is a conversation with your vet.
How this is funded
Right now it isn't. There are no ads, no sponsored placements, and no affiliate links on the site today. If that changes we'll label it clearly on the page where it appears — and we won't take money from a pet food brand to recommend a diet, because the entire value of a guide about elimination trials is that it isn't selling you a food.
Corrections
If something here is wrong we want to fix it, particularly if you're a veterinary professional. Write to [email protected] and we'll correct it and note the change.