Missing Link

    • Gold Top Dog

    Missing Link

    I am thinking of giving my dog Missing Link to boost her immune system.  ( I don't really know if that is what is it used for.)   I give her Prozyme.  Can I give her both or will they interact with each other?

    • Gold Top Dog

    Yes you can give both.  Infact the probiotics in Prozyme will help her readily absorb the nutrients in Missing Link.  I also have a Missing Link question: Joey needs to be on a Glucosamine suppliment - anyone had success w/ Missing Link Plus?  It contains 500 mg of glucosamine per tsp and linoleic and linolenic acids?  I wanted a product that also had chondroitin and MSM, but I couldn't find one.  My vet recommended a good lookin' suppliment with all of that and some sort of natural anti-inflamitory, but it was $80.  It would probably last me 6 weeks.  Ouch!  Any one like Missing LInk? Anyone recommend a good joint suppliment that's not $80 for 6 weeks worth?

    • Gold Top Dog

     I used it on Dakota and it did help. More than anything else I tried, imo. It is pricey though!

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    I give my dogs a huge variety of foods and supplements. Missing link is the only thing I've given that made otto really, really itchy. I have no idea why but just thought I'd throw it out there. I know a lot of people use it.
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    My bichon girls got very very itchy too. My minpin man did fine on it. "Fine" as in I really didn't notice any changes better or worse.
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    Rosco gets itchy on it too, which I think is the flax content. My girls coats were awesome on ML, but I am using other, more cost effective supplements since each dogs needs are different and the budget is tighter.
     

     

    • Gold Top Dog

     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 Stick out tongue).