My 11 year old English Shep was diagnosed with Arthritis. Do you know of anything I can give him that will help his pain?

I would get this dog on a grain free diet. Grain is a known inflammatory agent in dogs, and can cause more problems with arthritis. Vitamin C is good, and the liquid human grade glucosamine seems to be easiest for the dogs to absorb. Our older dogs here take this every day.

Read this article on feeding a raw diet. It’s a work in progress but there is a lot of good information there.

I would also recommend these books, Natural Nutrition for Dogs & Cats and Raw Dog Food.

You can also go to our Feeding Dogs Page for a list of articles and books that will be helpful to you.

You could use the dehydrated food we carry here if a raw diet is not going to be doable. Force and Embark are grain free formulas that we highly recommend.

Salmon Oil and Vitamin E are great for inflammation from allergies and arthritis. We feed these 2 supplements to all our dogs every day.