Your dog's daily supplements

I buy huge buckets of powdered joint supplements intended for horses at the tack store and use that. Very economical for dogs- a $70 bucket that would last a month for a horse lasts almost six months for the dogs. Also add fish oil, the grizzly salmon oil that comes in big pump bottles, and powdered vitamin E (also purchased at the tack store in big buckets intended for horses). That's it.

Rosco: Cetyl M (2 pills, 2x/day), Vit. E 2x/week, Dogzymes, oil (grizzly salmon, flax or coconut).

Luna: Dogzymes, vit E 2x/week, raw egg 5x/week, oil a few times a week (grizzly salmon, flax or coconut), MSM.

Lexi: Dogzymes, vit E 2x/week, raw egg 5x/week, oil a few times a week (grizzly salmon, flax or coconut).

Everything I give gets mixed in with their food and they all lick their dishes clear, so that makes life easy.

 

Prancer (13 lb, 16 month old poodle mix)  has a partially torn ccl so she's on a bunch of supplements for her joints since arthritis is very likely

500 mg Vit C w/ bioflavinoids, 1 Glycoflex III (loading dose - will be reduced to 1 every two days after 6 wks), 500 mg fish oil every other day, 100 iu Vit E every 3 days.    

She's also on two Chinese Herbal blends along with Milk Thistle and Marin (basically concentrated milk thistle) -- don't know how long those will continue for.   One of the herb mixes is for "body sores" (releases liver/blood stagnation that can cause tendon / ligament problems according to TCVM);  the other is specifically to increase bloodflow to the tendons and ligaments so that they can heal.   We're also using acupuncture.   Can you say "we DON'T want surgery !!!".

I don't give any supplements. I think the built in supplements in EP Holistic are just fine. Gingerbread has a shiny soft coat on this food and is basically the picture of health.