5Strands

5Strands makes at-home intolerance test kits for pets, and at Ashario Pets the line is represented by one item: the 5Strands Pet Raw Food and Environmental Intolerance Test Kit, listed at $195.60 CAD. It covers two areas in a single kit, raw food items and environmental items, so you can look at diet and surroundings together rather than guessing one at a time.

Is 5Strands a dog allergy test?

Most people search for a "5Strands dog allergy test," but the product name is deliberately specific: this is an intolerance assessment, not an allergy diagnostic. Allergies are immune responses that a veterinarian diagnoses and manages. An intolerance kit is informational — it gives you a structured shortlist of food and environmental items to discuss with your vet and to work through in an elimination trial.

What the kit is useful for

The pairing of raw food and environmental categories matters when you cannot tell whether a pattern tracks with what your pet eats or with what is around them at home. Rather than changing five things at once, you get a ranked list to test methodically.

Who tends to buy it

• Owners transitioning to raw or rotating proteins who want a shorter list of items to trial first.
• Households with more than one pet, since the kit is labelled for pets generally rather than a single species.
• Owners who have already tried the obvious swaps and want a structured starting point instead of trial and error.

How to use the results when choosing food

Results are most useful alongside careful label reading. If a common protein or carbohydrate shows up on your list, limited-ingredient or single-protein recipes make it easier to keep that item out of the bowl while you observe. Keep a simple log of what you fed, what you changed in the home, and what you noticed, with dates — a two to four week window per change is usually enough to see whether a pattern holds. Share the log and the report with your veterinarian before making long-term diet decisions, especially for puppies, kittens, seniors, or pets on a prescribed diet.

Ordering from Ashario Pets

We ship Canada-wide and offer same-day pickup at our North York store, so GTA shoppers can collect the kit the same day and start collecting a sample without waiting on a courier. If you are comparing options before you buy, the full product details for the 5Strands pet intolerance test kit are listed on its product page, and our team is happy to talk through how the results might shape your next food order.