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Does Your Dog’s Diet Need to Include Supplements?

Does Your Dog’s Diet Need to Include Supplements?

Does Your Dog’s Diet Need to Include Supplements? A healthy, balanced diet is essential for a long and happy life with your pet. How do you know if your dog’s diet needs supplements? What types of supplements should you add to your dog’s diet? In most cases, your dog’s diet will not need to be supplemented. Assuming you feed your pet a diet formulated by a reputable dog food company, your dog’s food is specially designed for a healthy balance to ensure excellent health for your pet. Occasionally, some low-quality dog foods will increase the need for extra supplementation. Your...

Should Dogs Take Supplements?

Should Dogs Take Supplements?

Should Dogs Take Supplements? It’s no mystery why we take supplements. The body is a complicated mechanism that fights every day to preserve its own well-being. Therefore, the body needs plenty of nutritional support that foods can’t always adequately provide. Because of high starch content, bleaching and over processing, many foods don’t contain enough minerals to adequately support the body. A deficiency of just one or more nutrients can leave the body vulnerable to disease. Furthermore, we must acknowledge that we each have biochemical individuality, so our bodies require different things depending on our age, environment, activity level and genetic...