I have 500mg caps of salmon oil.

Whats the amount per weight of the dog that i should give?

I'm also giving Vitamin E in the dosis recomended in leerburg website. Can i give the vitamin E and the salmon oil at diferent days, like vitamin E today and salmon oil tomorrow?

I use a gram (1000 mg) per ten pounds of dog. I've never seen 500 mg capsules; most are 1000 or 1200. Liquid is way cheaper in the long run.

I would give the two together. The E is given to protect the delicate PUFAs in the oil as the body processes it.

 Quote: Connie Sutherland

I would give the two together. The E is given to protect the delicate PUFAs in the oil as the body processes it.

I would agree with Connie. I had started giving Vit. E and Salmon oil in separate meals each day to my dog as a puppy, but quickly changed to combining them in the same meal for the reasons Connie gives above.

Katie

 Quote: connie sutherland

I use a gram (1000 mg) per ten pounds of dog. I've never seen 500 mg capsules; most are 1000 or 1200. Liquid is way cheaper in the long run.

In the book "Raw dog food" the author recommends a much smaller dosis (100-300mg per ten punds of dog). Why do you recommend more?

This dosis is daily, right?

Where i live i can't find liquid salmon oil. Just the gel caps, unfortunatly.

http://leerburg.com/47.htm

The Grizzly instructions also work out to about the same as my recommendation.

Not everyone agrees on dosage. For example, some figure a therapeutic human dose and then adjust for weight for a dog.

However, I agree with others who recommend dosages based on the fact that dogs have such an Omega-6-heavy diet. In the last couple of hundred years (a mere blip in terms of the history of canids), the diet has changed from what was probably 2:1 or even 1:1 6s to 3s to what it is now: about 20 or even 25:1. (Poultry and other slaughter meats are now extremely heavy in 6s.)

6s and 3s are both critically important. 6s promote inflammation, which is a necessary healing response, and 3s reduce inflammation that has served its use but has now turned into a problem itself. Inflammation run amok is a major factor in OA, and most systemic diseases, such as diabetes. (This is oversimplified, but a search of this board will show you long and detailed explanations.)

If we aim for a more balanced 6:3 ratio, say between 10:1 and 5:1, for most dogs on a modern diet (raw or commercial), that would require about 900 to 1000 mg of fish oil per ten pounds of dog. And for dogs, short-chain 3s (flax, canola, etc.) are not available for conversion to DHA and EPA the way they are (to a limited extent) for humans. So where humans can include ALA in their plans for getting enough 3s, I consider only marine sources (EPA and DHA "on the hoof," so to speak) in my calculations for dogs.

However, even a third of that is certainly better than what most dogs get.

BTW, no dog on blood thinners or cancer meds should be given supplemental 3s without the vet's input about the dosage.

If your dog is eating a lot of wild game and oily fish and grass-fed and -finished slaughter animals, you might revise the gram-per-ten-pounds downward accordingly.