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Grizzly Salmon Oil?

Posted : 7/9/2009 10:31:22 PM

I seem to remember a number of people mentioning that they use this product - anyone want to share their experiences with it? I'm currently giving the dogs each a 1000mg salmon oil capsule daily per my vet, but I'm wondering if the pump bottle would give me more bang for my buck now that I have three pups who are getting the stuff. One bottle of the capsules lasts us a month and costs about $12, a 32 oz bottle of the oil would last about 3 months and costs $25 plus shipping.

It looks like I can get a 32 oz bottle from KV Vet for just over $25, but shipping is ouchy lol. Anyone find it for a better price elsewhere?

willowchow

Posted : 7/9/2009 10:34:49 PM

I wanted to tell you that the company that makes Grizzly markets the same exact product to Petco only it is called Wild Alaskan Salmon oil. If you go to the Grizzly website I think they have pictures of what the bottle (it's a pump) looks like. The labeling is different but it's the exact product, I called the company and asked. It might be cheaper that way for you too.

Edited--It's this one, I wanted to show you because there are so many different ones--http://www.petco.com/product/104867/Wild-Alaskan-Salmon-Oil.aspx

Here is also the Wild Alaskan website, you can see at the very bottom, Division of Grizzly. . .

http://www.wild-alaskan.com/

brookcove

Posted : 7/9/2009 10:59:31 PM

I know I sound like broken record but I use the Sea Pet Gold. For good reason - dosing ten dogs (and a foster) I'd go through a LOT of something that gives me less bang for the buck.

When you evaluate the cost of a fish oil product, look at EPA+DHA per serving. Sea Pet Gold liquid has almost 1200 mg per 1/4 tsp. That's a therapeutic dose for everything up to about a 75 pound dog.

You could go every other day or just a couple times a week to maintain the same level that your vet is recommending (probably about 350 to 500 mg EPA+DHA). Zhi gets another product, in fact, because her dose would be so small and so infrequent I'd start forgetting it.

So a bottle divided among my ten plus one (minus Zhi) dogs lasts a month.

There are a few other products that are similar - Nordic has one, I know, because one month I was getting something from a store that had it, and I added it in to save shipping rather than buying from Sea Pet. The results were the same.

The results are NOT the same when I use typical drug store products. For one thing, I have to give somewhere between four to six capsules for my dogs that need the fish oil therapeutically to maintain the same EPA+DHA levels.

tiffy

Posted : 7/9/2009 11:52:43 PM

I use this for Toots. I get a 16oz pump bottle for 16.99 and pay $2 something for shipping at Better Health International.One pump daily, along with a capsule (100 iu) of vitamin e.