Proving your dog with proper nutrition is important for your dog’s long and healthy life. In fact did you know that most veterinarian visits are caused by poor nutrition and / or poor dog food? Even if you use a high quality dog food, just by the simple fact that there is not variety in the dogs diet, your dog will most likely lack nourishment from certain minerals and vitamins.

It is easy to take care of this problem by simply providing dog supplements daily to your pet. In fact 3 out of 4 pet owners provide daily vitamins and supplements to their dogs! The next question is what to provide? Before we go there let’s start with the dog food, make sure you provide a high quality dog food; stay away from the common brand names as these mass produced products have many fillers, preservatives, and often lack the broad spectrum of nutrients that a dog needs. Just about everyone I have spoken with feels that Organic Dog foods provide the best overall nutritional value.

Pet and Dog owners care very much for their loved ones – after all they are family. As a general rule only, a healthy dog is characterized by good looking shinny fur. While it is not fair to say that a dog with shinny fur is always healthy, you can be almost certain that a dog with a poor quality of coat is lacking some sort of vitamin or mineral. Remember not to get a dirty coat mixed up with a poor quality, dull coat. You can also check to see if there is some natural oil on the dog’s coat. It won’t be much, but enough to protect the outermost portion of the hair strands.

Now we can look at supplements, as the food alone is not enough for a dog. Pets needs vitamins and minerals as part of their diet in low but constant concentrations. Having a deficiency can lead to large-scale anabolic deficiencies. As simple rule, some of the more important vitamins in a dog’s diet include: Dog vitamins A, D, E, K, B6, Riboflavin and Niacin. Omega 3 for dogs is also quite important for a dog, especially to control allergies and promote a healthy and shinny coat. Besides these, some of the other important minerals required in dog’s diet are calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium and iodine.

Remember in the past dogs would eat other animals, plants, and just about whatever they could find in nature. Thus they had a balance in the omega 3 to omega 6 ratios. Today that is often not the case so the balance is off. This is why it is essential to provide omega 3 as we discussed earlier. When Omega 3 is left out many health problems can occur like inflammation which in turn causes other problems like joint problems, loss of alertness, itchy skin, stomach problems, skin infections etc. Good luck caring for your dog, remember to lover them as much as they love us!:)