More gimmicks! Please consider that in order to get enough glucosamine or chondroitin into your dog to actually have a therapeutic effect you would have to massively overfeed and the poor animal would be obese in no time.

As an example, a 50 lb dog with light to moderate joint problems may need 500 to 750 mg of glucosamine per day. On average, fortified foods contain around 50-100 mg of glucosamine per cup, at around 350 to 450 kcal per cup. To get close to the 500 mg target dose, you’d have to feed 5-10 cups of food, supplying anywhere from 2,250 to 3,500 kcal per day – over double the energy requirement of even a moderately active 50 pound dog!

Your wallet and your dog’s joints (and waistline!) would be better off choosing a food for its main nutritional characteristics and adding a high-quality supplement for joint support.

A much better sorce would be NuVet’s ~NuJoint Plus with their guarentee!

NuJoint Plus™ is a natural anti-inflammatory hip and joint therapy, formulated with the finest pharmaceutical, human grade ingredients.Major considerations in formulating NuJoint Plus™ were the pharmaceutical grade quality of ingredients and their healing values, as well as the bio digestibility and utilization into the cellular framework. NuJoint Plus™ has been formulated by leading Veterinarians and Scientist to contain precise percentages of Glucosamine, Chondroitin, Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) and Vitamin C which will help to quickly and effectively reverse and heal the devastating effects of osteoarthritis.

NuVet Labs™ has designed a cutting edge formula that we believe will help increase your pets longevity and quality of life. Our scientists performed extensive research and experiments with the ingredients in NuJoint Plus™, finding the most powerful synergistic defense against the harm caused by osteoarthritis.

"Meals" are created through the process of rendering, in which the moisture and fat are removed from animal tissue.

All "meals" are rendered, but not all "meals" are bad. You should look at the word that precedes the word "meal" to find out the protein source that is being used. If it says "chicken" or "lamb" before the word "meal" you can be sure that the meal is made from whole lean muscle tissue from that specific source.

Crude Protein - It is critical to stress that the term "crude protein" is used in the guaranteed analysis, which means there is no statement whatsoever as to its digestibility. Protein comes in many forms, even shoe leather, chicken feathers or cow hooves have a fairly high crude protein content, but the body is only able to extract and process very little of it, at the price of a lot of work and stress to do so. Due to this labeling issue (only one of many, many others), the percentage of protein in a food by itself doesn't say anything at all. Ingredient lists are not 100% straightforward and truthful either, but at least you can somewhat gauge if there's even any quality protein in there at all.

This is the most common form of nutrient information that the consumer will find on the bag. This “quasi” nutrition information is regulated by federal and state laws and was initially designed, some 100 years ago, to keep unscrupulous marketers from cheating unwary consumers.

Today, the Guaranteed Analysis provides minimums and maximums that the food producer must meet, but this only provides a fraction of the information that pet owners, professionals, retailers, and veterinarians need to know when making decisions about the food and the amount to offer.

Some companies also provide a full Nutrient Analysis or typical analysis for the product. This listing of nutrients is much more comprehensive than the GA. It often mirrors the AAFCO* nutrient profiles. Some companies may also provide an abbreviated listing of these nutrients or computations to express the nutrients on a different basis, e.g. dry matter or metabolizable energy basis.

Loose stools or diarrhea can be associated with many causes. Two of the more common ones are overeating and/or switching to a new dog food too quickly.

The reason that overfeeding can cause loose stools is that our foods are nutrient dense and highly digestible. Because of this, you generally need to feed less of our foods than you may have previously been feeding. When an animal gets too much food, it creates a system overload and their body reacts by producing loosely formed stools. It has been our experience that once you cut back to the appropriate pet feeding level, the stool should return to normal in a day or two.

Switching foods too quickly often causes loose stools. It can take about 4-6 weeks for the average pet's digestive system to completely adjust to a new food. By taking at least 10 days to switch foods you make this transition much easier for them.

Food A

Bison Salmon Meal Brown Rice Millet Cracked Pearled Barley Rice Bran Canola Oil Tomato Pomace Flaxseed Natural Flavor Salmon Oil (source of DHA) Choline Chloride Taurine Dried Chicory Root Parsley Flakes Pumpkin Meal Almond Oil Sesame Oil Yucca Schidigera Extract Thyme Blueberries Cranberries Carrots Broccoli Vitamin E Supplement Iron Proteinate Zinc Proteinate Copper Proteinate Ferrous Sulfate Zinc Sulfate Copper Sulfate Potassium Iodide Thiamine Mononitrate Manganese Proteinate Manganous Oxide Ascorbic Acid Vitamin A Supplement Biotin Calcium Panthothenate Manganese Sulfate Sodium Selenite Pyridoxine Hydrochloride Vitamin B12 Supplement Riboflavin Supplement Vitamin D Supplement Folic Acid

Protein, Min 26%
Fat, Min 12%
Fiber, Max 4%
Moisture, Max 10%
Calcium, Max 1.5%
Phosphorus, Max 1.2%
Calories per cup, 375

Food B

**Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles. Other Nutritional Data

346 kcals/per cup. Use a standard 8 oz. measuring cup.

Food C

Now look below at “Food C” You will notice the Crude Protein is 24% but below when listed as a protein (like Food A) the Protein is at 27.3 %. So in looking at “Food B” where the crude protein is 28% the protein would be much higher than the other two, more like 32%. This is how labels can be so deceptive.

Food C (again w/o Crude)

Moisture 6.34 % Protein 27.3 % Fat 14.9 % Linoleic Acid 2.46 % Omega 3 0.31 % Arachidonic Acid 0.06 % Carbohydrates 48.63 % Fiber 2.1 % Ash 4.75 % Calcium 0.94 % Phosphorous 0.79 % Magnesium 0.11 % Sodium 0.2 % Potassium 0.64 % Chloride 0.22 % Iron 246 mg/kg Zinc 255 mg/kg Copper 21 mg/kg Iodine 2.4 mg/kg Manganese 36 mg/kg Selenium 0.36 mg/kg Arginine 1.74 % Histidine 0.41 % Isoleucine 0.79 % Leucine 1.27 % Lysine 1.47 % Methionine 0.52 % Met-Cysteine 0.79 % Phenylalanine 0.96 % Phe-Tyrosine 1.66 % Threonine 0.89 % Tryptophan 0.21 % Valine 1.05 % Taurine 1000 mg/kg Choline 1896 mg/kg Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) 4.86 mg/kg Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) 5.43 mg/kg Vitamin B3 (Niacin) 43.99 mg/kg Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) 3.8 mg/kg Folic Acid 7.78 mg/kg Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid) 18.23 mg/kg Biotin 0.97 mg/kg Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin) 850 ug/kg Vitamin A 20047 IU/kg Vitamin C 526 mg/kg Vitamin D 1990 IU/kg Vitamin E 350 IU/kg Vitamin K 288 ug/kg ME 3768 kcal/kg ME 366 kcal/cup

Our #1 pick is the “Wolf Cub” (By Solid Gold) puppy food combined with the NuVet Plus (read below). Why? We raised Opal with this combo and her OFA results were Excellent by all 3 radiologists. We then raised Chamois on a different combo of good food / no NuVet. She did pass all her OFA but just with passing results not Excellent like Opal. We had a friend do the same combo as what Opal was raised on, with their Mastiff. And for the 1^st time they too received an OFA rating of Excellent. ~this is no guarantee but enough proof for me to pass on the word of this great combo. (note, none of these dogs were taken to dog parks or over exercised during the 1^st 10 months of puppy growth. Every breeder I have spoken to says Large breeds should not be running or rough housing during this time of growth. Relaxed play, trotting around and swimming are all great but sprinting and over play will cause hip and joint damage)

Solid Gold Web Site HERE 

NuVet Web Site HERE
Buyer code # 11536

This code allow you to buy Nu Vet products at my price rather than the higher Vet Price