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Do any of you have animals with arthritis? If so, could you suggest what I can do till I take him to doctor to try acupuncture?
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I have also used chondroitin and glucosamine on my redbone hound it worked great. Acupuncture and pain pills will help the symptoms (pain & stiffness) but the supplement actually addresses the problem by building up the cartilage in their joints. It's worth trying a bottle made for dogs just to see if it works Dog Arthritis Medicine: Canine Arthritis Medicine Choices for Dogs from Drs. Foster & Smith
Do any of you have animals with arthritis? If so, could you suggest what I can do till I take him to doctor to try acupuncture?
Thanks
Thank you for posting this site. Our dog Cubbie is showing most of the symptoms of a skin allergy (Atopy), and the things I have read said to change his diet (no wheat or corn) and that an antihistamine might help. We have switched him to a lamb and rice food. I have heard that Benadryl is okay for dogs, and this says it is okay. I will, of course, also talk to the vet about this and about my suspicions about Cubbie having Atopy.Here is a list of human medicines that work for dogs. They tell you the milligrams and to use buffered aspirin.
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Thanks! Can you buy taurine separately? With both of us being out of work and being down to our last few dollars, we couldn't buy the most expensive food, but we didn't want to keep giving him what he had been eating (1st ingredient was corn and it had a lot of wheat too). We went to Tractor Supply Co., and I bought Diamond brand Lamb and Rice formula. It doesn't list taurine. It lists: Lamb meal, whole grain brown rice, cracked pearled barley, millet, egg product, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), rice bran, beet pulp, flaxseed, natural flavor, potassium chloride, salt, choline chloride, vitamin E supplement, iron proteinate, zinc proteinate, copper proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide, thiamine mononitrate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, ascorbic acid, vitamin A supplement, biotin, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, sodium selenite, pyridoxine hyrocholoride (vitamin B6), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin, vitamin D supplement, and folic acid. Sorry that is so long! I just wanted to include everything it said was in it, since you know more about these things than I do. I figured this has to be better than what he was eating (Alpo Prime Cuts, and Pedigree), but if it ends up giving him heart problems, I don't know! I also give him fish oil capsules. He needs a bath (I bought some oatmeal shampoo for him) but I am waiting for it to warm up a bit. I think this week will be okay for it. Cubbie has been on the new food for a week now. He still scratches, but it seems to have slowed a bit, and he isn't shaking his head as much....Barbara, you could talk to your vet, but it's been my experience that they would rather put your dog on prednisone and tell you to keep giving him benedryl than addressing the actual problem. I have seen this first hand with dozens of vets.
True, corn wheat and soy are major allergy culprits when it comes to dog food. Eliminate those and you usually eliminate your problem(s), and that goes for treats, too. Switching to a lamb and rice food may or may not have eliminated those grains. It depends which L & R food you chose. There aren't many that are true L & R foods, especially if they aren't a holistic or all natural food. Take Iams for instance. Their L & R food has chicken in it and brewers rice, which is one of the off products from making beer. And if I'm not mistaken, does not contain taurine. Their sister co., Eukanuba, has started adding taurine to their lamb and rice food. Taurine is a chemical not found in lamb protein. Crufts medical university did a study and found that dogs fed a lamb and rice diet for five years developed heart problems and that was related to the lack of taurine in their diet. So you want a L & R food that contains taurine.