I take supplements. Should you and your dog?
Most days of the week, I might take anything from vitamins C, B-complex, D and E, probiotics, magnesium, omega-3 and more. I selected these items for different reasons.
I skip a couple days a week, to give our bodies a rest and to avoid building up a tolerance. I remember reading about this concept many years ago, and I believe in it. I shoot for five days a week for supplements.
I also give my dogs supplements. These are also hand-selected for different reasons. For example, one of my dogs is getting older, so I give her more antioxidants, green lipped mussel powder, omega-3 and more. Like my other dog, she has been on a homemade diet for years (with some commercial items sprinkled in – it’s okay if you are not 100%), and her meals are super healthy.
But don’t fall down the rabbit hole of misinformation that runs rampant online, in pet stores, from friends of friends, etc! Keep it simple and targeted to your own dog’s needs, and yours too.
Should you give your dog supplements?
No matter how healthy our diets — and this goes for me as well as my dogs — I believe a multivitamin and mineral supplement is warranted, in order to make sure we are covered.
Whether you feed your dog a homemade diet, a commercial diet, or somewhere in between, you may want to consider tacking on some kind of supplements. This is a very personal thing, and should be tailored to your own dog’s current diet, age, health status, and nutritional needs. I have customized my own supplement protocol and my dog’s — you can too!
Pet parents often ask me for multivitamin / minerals, probiotics, omega-3 supplements, and many more items to try to support their pets’ health. It is for this reason I opened a Fullscript storefront. Fullscript offers numerous supplements for dogs, cats and us humans as well.
I offer a 15% discount on all products in my Fullscript store.
You can shop my entire Fullscript storefront here, or shop over 100 of their pet products.
And as always, visit my Services page to choose an option that works best for you. ~ Sarah
PS – See my Supplement Information page for more tips on how to choose, and not choose, supplements.