21 Golden Vitamin

It is not necessary for dogs that eat pure dog food. Dogs that eat homemade dog food or suffer from pica (trace element deficiency) can add it daily.

21 Gold Vitamin is for human use and contains vitamins, minerals and trace elements. After comparing the trace elements for dogs with 21 Gold Vitamin, we found that the pet-specific ingredients are included in Gold Vitamin, of course the content is There are differences, so whether to use it for people or for pets is up to the owner to decide based on his or her dog's situation.

The dosage for Golden Retriever is 2 tablets a day unless symptoms of vitamin and trace element deficiency occur, otherwise the daily dosage is 1 tablet a day. Dosage for adult dogs.

Other breeds of dogs are adjusted according to body weight.

Element content per piece:

Vitamin A 2500IU,

Vitamin D200IU,

Vitamin E5mg,

Vitamin B1 2.5mg,

Vitamin B2 2.5mg,

Vitamin B6 0.25mg,

Vitamin B12 0.5ug,

Vitamin C 25mg,

Nicotinamide 7.5mg,

Calcium pantothenate 2.5mg,

Choline bitartrate 25mg,

Myo-inositol 25mg,

Iron 5mg,

Iodine 50ug,

Copper 0.5mg,

Manganese 0.5mg,

Zinc 0.25mg,

Calcium hydrogen phosphate 279mg,

Magnesium 0.5mg,

Potassium 5mg,

L-Lysinate 12.5mg

Because it is for human use, it is available in most pharmacies, but it will be more expensive in physical pharmacies. Therefore, I personally prefer to buy from [Yi Pharmacy] and [Tmall Pharmacy] opened by No. 1 Store.

Cod liver oil

As I said earlier, if calcium supplementation is not absorbed, it is better not to supplement it at all. The harm caused by excessive calcium supplementation is definitely more harmful than good. So don’t listen to the propaganda from those pet product dealers that all large dogs must constantly supplement with calcium. The joint failure rate of medium and large dogs in China is so high, and their misleading propaganda also plays a role.

In addition, if you carefully check the raw material list of dry dog ​​food at home and abroad, you can find that many additional calcium powders are inorganic calcium, because the cost of inorganic calcium is much lower than organic calcium. What is inorganic calcium? For example, calcium carbonate; what is organic calcium? Such as calcium gluconate and calcium lactate.

Since dog food already contains such a high dose of calcium, if it is not absorbed after eating, it will really cause harm from excessive calcium supplementation, and the symptoms of calcium deficiency will appear again. So what we need to do is to improve the content of the dog foodThe absorption rate of some calcium components.

At this time, you can use cod liver oil. Cod liver oil is rich in vitamin AD and its ability to promote calcium absorption is well known, so I won’t list them all.

Calcium supplementation

The next problem is calcium supplementation. Some people may ask, aren’t you the most opposed to calcium supplementation? Why are you introducing calcium supplement products - -

I have to explain again here that I am not against calcium supplementation, but against excessive calcium supplementation when there is no calcium deficiency. Under what circumstances do you not need to supplement calcium? First, feed reliable pure dog food from a big brand; second, homemade dog food itself contains calcium-rich raw materials, such as fish bone meal, beef and sheep cartilage, etc.

Under what circumstances is calcium supplementation necessary?

When making homemade dog food, the raw materials are mainly meat or grains. During the period when high-calcium raw materials are not fed, appropriate calcium supplementation is required.

What kind of calcium is better? Many kennels that raise pedigree racing dogs recommend not the pet calcium, but the Sanjing brand calcium gluconate oral liquid for human use ~ it may be more effective.

For example, for calcium supplementation for female dogs after giving birth, they will strongly recommend this blue bottle of calcium. Calcium supplementation is a top priority for female dogs after giving birth, otherwise there is a risk of paralysis. Therefore, from the editor’s understanding, this kind of blue bottle calcium is better absorbed by visual inspection and is an emergency calcium supplement. If your dog is already lying on its hooves, don’t feel bad for Grandpa Mao, buy a good one like this to make up for it.

However, the cost of feeding Blue Bottle Calcium per bottle is slightly higher, so if you are not suffering from calcium deficiency and need calcium supplementation urgently, you can choose other brands of calcium gluconate oral liquid, which is much more cost-effective.

Joints

Regarding joint health products, I plan to talk about them in detail this time, so I read a lot of information yesterday and today. The source of information this time is mainly the DS series of joint drugs, which are recommended by RUSHHILL, one of the three major golden retriever kennels in the United States.

After comparing the ingredients and content ratios of this series of health-care, enhanced and therapeutic types, we calculated the daily dosage suitable for golden retrievers.

By the way, I don’t know how many dog ​​friends have really read the previous article carefully, and CHD was mentioned in the article. This is the most common problem in the bones of medium and large dogs. And the probability of domestic dogs suffering from it is really scary. Investigating the reasons, there are reasons why the hip joints were not checked before breeding in China, and there are also factors where the new owners were ignorant and made various mistakes during the breeding process, which ultimately caused the dogs to lose their legs.

Let’s not talk about other breeds of dogs, let’s just talk about golden retrievers. Protecting joints during the growth period is also a top priority. In addition to avoiding bad exercise behaviors, we must also add additional ingredients that help protect joints. These ingredients are contained in mid-to-high-end dog food, such as Crave dog food, but mass dog food, whether domestic or imported,There are very few of them, due to cost reasons.

This time we are not just talking about chondroitin, glucosamine (glucosamine), but also MSM (dimethyl sulfone), collagen, Manganese (trace element: manganese), Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C), ASU et al.

The above ingredients are not only needed for growing golden retrievers (automatically substituted for other breeds of medium and large dogs), but also for elderly dogs. The good protection of joints and bones of elderly dogs means that they can move on their own for several more years. This also reduces the burden on the owner, right?

So add joint-protecting substances, chondroitin + glucosamine, to your dog’s diet. These two things play a basic protective role in the joints during the growth period.

Chondroitin is one of the important components of articular cartilage and has various functions to jointly protect joints.

Glucosamine, also known as ammonia sugar, acts as a lubricant, and can promote each other's effectiveness when paired with chondroitin.
These two substances work together to increase the lubrication of the joint cartilage layer and prevent the hard bones of the joints wrapped by cartilage from contacting each other and causing friction.

Glucosamine (glucosamine)

Principle - This information comes from Baidu Encyclopedia

1. Provides a cushioning effect to alleviate impact and friction during movement

Chondroitin acts like a "liquid magnet", drawing water into the proteoglycan molecules, making the cartilage thicker and sponge-like, and increasing the amount of synovial fluid in the joints. In this way, it provides a "cushioning" effect to enhance the shock-absorbing capabilities of the joints and soften the impact and friction of walking or jumping.

2. Deliver important oxygen and nutrients to the joints and help remove waste from the joints

3. Inhibit cartilage-destroying enzymes (such as collagenase, elastase and cathepsin) to prevent cartilage from being broken down or dissolved.

4. It can start from the root of the problem and inhibit the activity of COX-2 to prevent joint inflammation.