Sunday, February 28, 2010

Supplement ingredients...

(I'm copying/pasting this from something I posted in January on the forum I help moderate. I've been thinking about this a lot and am still undecided. (I always like to get a lot of people's opinions before making a plan.) The source of the ingredients is a BIG deal for me. I'd like to get Trixsyn because they've said that none of their ingredients come from China, but I don't know if that is completely true, since it's not very realistic for most supplement companies to not get any ingredients from China.)

I'd like to begin both of my dogs on a joint supplement in the spring, which is when the snow melts and they can have more exercise and do more agility. From April to October, Mika gets an average of 1 hour of daily exercise (hiking and agility). Wall-e gets an average of 2 hours of daily exercise (hiking, agility, playing, and chasing cars along the fence in the backyard...lol). So their joints are under quite a bit of stress....

At the moment, they get salmon oil twice a week and Prozyme (digestive enzyme) with food that needs to be cooked. I feed raw.

The main supplements I've been considering are Sashas Blend, Glycoflex I or II, Cosequin, and Trixsyn. But the biggest concern that I have is the sources of the ingredients. The 2007 melamine pet food recall gave a lot of people a scare. My dogs and my cat were thankfully not affected by it because they were eating a combination of raw and Fromm Four-Star kibble at the time, but I'm concerned about where the ingredients in dog supplements are coming from. I've read that a lot of glucosamine comes from China, and I don't want to give my dogs any ingredients from China that might have contaminants. Trixsyn *says* that none of its ingredients come from China, but I dunno....

I guess I'm just asking, do you think supplements are necessary for active dogs? If you supplement, what product(s) do you use, and what results have you observed? Do you think the source of the ingredients is a concern?

38 comments:

  1. I talked with a holisitic vet about this just a few weeks ago. I have been giving RecoverySA which also has human and horse forumlas. I've been very happy with it and have seen a noticeable difference in my dogs.

    The vet thinks that Glycoflex is a better product for your dollar, and recommends it to pretty much every sport dog that comes to her.

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  2. I know that with my own joints using a joint supplement just seems like a no brainer for a lot of dogs....my holistic vet was even saying that for puppies giving a supplement during puppyhood was looking like it created spongier joints and better structures around the joints and made for less injuries when they grew up, which is different from what they said until a few years ago when my rehab vet had said not to give anything like that until there were signs of arthritis. The problem is that so many supplements do not contain what you think they contain, and like you said you have to make sure about the other things in the supplement. I give the Cosequin-and have given that for years now, I get the big bottles pretty reasonable on the net, and was giving Sam E-but that was just so expensive that I am switching to another glucosamine but not sure which one

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  3. I give Cosequin. Have I seen a huge difference in my dogs. No. But they dont have arthritis either. I do think Guiness has more flexibility in his back. ( we are not sure what is injury is, no one could figure it out). Diana

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  4. I currently use GlycoFlex II. I have used K9 Liquid Health, Cosequin, and Synovi G3 in the past.

    My current vet likes the GlycoFlex products and I feel comfortable with them.

    I supplement a fair amount - it is probably a reflection of the fact that I believe in taking vitamins myself!

    I have heard that vets now recommend active dogs get a joint supplement prophylactically.

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  5. Well from my point of view since Trixsyn is made in the USA it is quite possible for NONE of the ingredients come from Communist China. Now if you actually read the ingredients in trixsyn there's only 3 of them which makes it even MORE likely that none of it comes from China. I can also say that Trixsyn works like a dream and is totally awesome as you already know as I've told you this over a THOUSAND times.

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  6. Thanks everyone! I think I'll e-mail some of the companies for more information about the sources of their ingredients.

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