Dog Supplements
What a Difference They Can Make

Dog supplements are needed to support a less than ideal diet. It's even a good idea when you try your best. Just because your bag of dog food says complete nutrition, don’t believe it.

The quantity is small and the potency is smaller. If your dog is not getting a variety of fresh meat, organ meat and vegetables in his diet, you need supplementation. Find out more about feeding raw on the Raw Dog Foods Page.

It’s tough for anyone to take everything they need to stay healthy. It can be costly as well. For dogs it really isn’t so bad once you have things down. We believe in variety in their diet, a multivitamin, either fish oil or some sardines.

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By variety we mean fresh or raw meat, canned food, dry food, some food we fix at home for ourselves. Even with a variety, a good multivitamin can go a long ways. Sardines are a wonderful whole food supplement. A can a week for a medium sized dog will do them a lot of good. You can also get salmon or Omega 3 oil in a liquid form to put on their daily food. There are a lot of good multivitamins dog supplements on the market. We sell several out of our store.

There are many other supplements for a variety of reasons. Hip and joint formulas can help an arthritic dog get around better. Highly nervous dogs can be helped by a natural calming formula. There are even very good supplements for seizures. We have seen many dogs get off expensive and not so healthy prescription drugs and on a good dog seizure formula with great success.

Stool deodorizers, teeth cleaning, eye care, ear care and on and on. Supplements have filled in when nature or just a not so healthy diet takes its toll.

Some of the off-the-wall dog supplements that we have discovered are bee pollen, honey, apple cider vinegar and coconut oil.

Bee pollen has helped people and dogs get over some pollen type allergies. You need to use local pollen so the pollens are relevant to your area. You start small, one little bee pollen and work up to a teaspoon per 25lbs of dog daily.

Honey is a wonderful dog supplement for it’s antibiotic properties and it contains a small amount of bee pollen.

Apple cider vinegar can help internally and externally. Mixed with water can sooth sore spots or hot spots from scratching. Taken internally can increase appetite and provide some antibiotic properties.

Organic coconut oil is another one of the internal or external supplements. You can rub it on sores to aid healing. Taken internally it has antimicrobial, antibiotic, and antioxidant powers.

Dogs, like people don’t always eat the way they should. Supplements can help overcome issues. Seek the advice from a natural pet friendly store, they can help with more information.

National Pet Pharmacy carries hundreds of supplements. Click on the link below to visit their site. You can search by condition or product. They have some of the best prices and will even price match so you can't do no better. They even ship over 650 products free.

As always, if you need some quick advice on a supplement of particular condition, drop us an email or go to Ask Us A Nutritional Question page.