I'm just looking for some second (and third and fourth) opinions.  About a month ago, I changed up Rowdy's dog food.  He was getting Canidae with Orijen mixed in and I switched out the Orijen and replaced it with EVO small bites.  However, I've noticed that he seems to be thinning fur on his face, closest to his eyes and then up,toward his ears.  He also has a tiny dry skin spot on the edge of one of his ears. 

My first guess is that maybe he's allergic to the EVO.  Has anyone else had any problems like that?  With EVO or anything else?  My second thought was mange, and that's just because I know it's a skin problem.  But, the pictures I've seen of it online look red and irritated, and his skin is not red and irritated.  It's just that his fur seems to be thinning out more than I remember it being...  We're not even to bare skin, so there's always the option that I could just be totally crazy too....  I still have  bunch of the Canidae/EVO mix, but Sam's still eating that, so it's not like I would be trashing it.  I'm thinking about picking up a small bag of Orijen and just giving him that until the other is used up by Sam.  Then putting them both back onto the same Canidae/mix feed.  James doesn't really want me to do this since it would be three different foods for three different dogs, but he will if I insist.  (James is usually home from work before me and feeds the dogs before I get home, so he would be the one who has to deal with it.)

Anyone have any advice?  Oh, and thanks in advance...

Oscar has always had thin fur in that area and occasionally the tip of an ear will get a dry, rough-type of feel to it.  When that happened I gave him a half of a fish oil cap, along with his normal dose of Seapet fish oil with E.  I didn't even consider allergies,  I just figure he reacts a little differently to various foods or perhaps the humidity is very low in the house with the furnace running.  He's eating EVO reduced fat now, before that it was Eagle Pack Holistic Chicken. 

Thanks Ski and Erika!  I will give the fish oil a try.  We have capsules here- Sam used to get them regularly.  I'm mixing the EVO as part of a revolvong diet, exactly like what they are talking about in the dogaware article.  The woman who owns my pet store went to school for pet nutrition and it's exactly what she recommended.  After the EVO mix is up, I actually plan to rotate to Solid Gold BATH with the Canidae. 

But if the fish oil doesn't help anything, I'll take him off it.  Perhaps he's just a bit too sensitive for it....