Pooch and Mutt: Dog Health Supplements

Vet Jessica Harvey tells how Bionic Biotic (probiotic health supplement for dogs) has helped her ridgeback with diarrhea and how she used it with police dogs and search and rescue dogs

I spoke to you at Crufts and you supplied me with a further bag of Mobile Bones to continue with the trial as I wasn’t sure there had been a lot of change in Wicca’s mobility (she is the collie that works sheep and had ruptured her Achilles tendon a few years ago).

She hasn’t been working much over the winter but she is now and I am pleased to report that the  ‘after work’ stiffness seems finally to have reduced considerably and the frequency of her lumbar spine discomfort has also reduced.

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Wilfie is my own collie cross and is he is almost 9 years old. Over the lst year or so, I had noticed some stiffness in his hindlegs which I isolated to his hips. An xray in Oct 2009 showed that he had some ********** changes in his R hip, so I began to give him 50 mg Rimadyl tabs once or twice a day as needed. He was still very mobile and happy at this stage; just a little uncomfortable after a long walk.

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Annie, the dog on the Mobile Bones trial originally presented with signs of a mild luxating patella of the left hind leg.

She had fair to good extension of this leg, and average movement within the rest of the joints for a 2yo terrier. The owner explained how Annie was showing the typical ‘hopping’ and lifting of the left leg while she was running about in the garden or on walks.

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