brookcove
Posted : 5/14/2009 1:32:55 PM
When I used one of those "al in one" supplements, I prefered the Wellness product. It was somewhat less spendy and I got better results overall, on a large group of resident dogs plus a large rotating group of fosters.
What I prefer to do now is address whatever I'm wanting to improve in my dogs, via more focused products, usually single ingredient or single purpose.
My favorite joint health product right now is the Glyco-flex line. It's pricey compared to something like Missing Link, but your money is spent better - after the "loading" period, two months, you go to half a dose. It's put the bounce back in the step of both fifteen year old Maggie, and almost eleven year old Lu (Pyrenees mix). Maggie just has old dog aches and pains, but Lu has pretty severe degenerative joint disease.
For joint repair, a combination of glucosamine (the building block for soft tissue repair) and something called cetyl-M, is the best I've ever found, and is vet recommended. Horse people have really gotten into this approach. I did this with Lu and she went from hardly being able to walk this fall, to jumping over 30" fences this spring (which is kind of, oops, so much for her retirement, I can no longer keep her out of the sheep pasture ).