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Those of you who have given glucosamine/ chondroitin to dogs, how long before you saw any improvement?
I've started Wyatt McRiot on glucosamine and I can't tell if it has no effect or maybe he hasn't taken it long enough. I'm not terribly optimistic about it since he doesn't appear to have any sort of pain anywhere, just getting weak, but thought I would give it a try just in case it helps.
I bought the pills made for humans. They come with three times as many pills for less than half the price and he is accustomed to taking pills with his breakfast. He slurps the new ones down just like his pills he has had every morning for the last 12 years. They smell nice and he doesn't bite into them. The expensive ones for dogs probably come in a liver flavored chewie treat which costs more,
It really helped my Rottweiler but, unfortunately I lost her to cancer last year. She was Rottie number four whom I lost to cancer in my lifetime.
The Catahoula has some arthritis in his back and the Dasuquin helps him, along with the critter chiropractor who also works on my horses.
My dogs don’t herd but they do (did) “check fences” on 20+ acres of hills so there is plenty of exercise.
The Dasuquin is expensive but it works. I’m not sure if Nutramax allows price wars/price matching on this product. I feed Cosequin ASU Plus to one if my horses and the price on that is fixed.
If something is going to work, you should see some sort of improvement in a week.
I've tried it on some of our senior dogs, for a long time, and I didn't notice any effects. But since the dog can't tell me whether or not it makes them feel any better, I'll never know.
Aspirin works pretty well for awhile. Tramadol will make a dog think it's 10 years younger, but good luck finding a vet that will give you any. They say its a bad thing because trying to run around like a young fool will cause them injuries and make things worse.
I've started Wyatt McRiot on glucosamine and I can't tell if it has no effect or maybe he hasn't taken it long enough. I'm not terribly optimistic about it since he doesn't appear to have any sort of pain anywhere, just getting weak, but thought I would give it a try just in case it helps.
From everything I've read about glucosamine type supplements (I've used various formulations myself for decades), they are used primarily for pain relief, not "weakness". Weakness implies loss of muscle that can support and protect an aging joint. Targeted exercise might improve that. As for pain, some dogs are quite stoic especially about things that come on gradually. They adapt to new normals and live in the present much better than we do. Most of my cattledogs ignored anything less than a severed artery . As one vet put it, cattledogs need their humans to remind them they aren't indestructible.
I feed Dog MX Hip and Joint for large breed dogs and I noticed a difference almost immediately after I started feeding two tablets a day with food.
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. As one vet put it, cattledogs need their humans to remind them they aren't indestructible.
