Has anyone used the supplement Nupro? What are your feelings on using it with Vit C, E, Fish Oil, Alfalfa, Kelp or not at all?

 Quote: Patricia Freese

Has anyone used the supplement Nupro? What are your feelings on using it with Vit C, E, Fish Oil, Alfalfa, Kelp or not at all?

What's in it that you want to give your dog?


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What I mean is, there is nothing in Nupro that I feel is needed and missing from my dogs diet. For example, the top ingredient (liver) -- I don't see any need for me to provide dessicated liver powder in a supplement.

Edited by Connie Sutherland (01/14/2010 03:28 PM)
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This is an ongoing debate we have at home.........he likes feeding it - I don't see a reason for it.

Not trying to find a marriage counselor here.....BUT if there is a justified reason for it - I will quit standing my ground and give in and place the order (smiling).

We are having a problem with very dry scalp in our 8 year old. And our 9 year old doesn't scratch at himself, but if you scratch/brush his back or shampoo his back, his topline tilts and he starts scratching with his back leg. These are old problems that the raw diet doesn't seem to resolve. They get 2 squirts of Grizzley Oil (with Vit E 400 units)and are 95-100 lbs

Patricia, are you sure that's enough salmon oil? I use Grizzly for my dogs and my 32lber gets two squirts per instructions on the bottle. 2 pumps for dogs 30-50lbs.

I'm thinking they need more as well.

We use 1 Vit E 400 units, 1 tsp SuperC, 2 squirts Grizzly Oil, 1 tsp alfalfa & kelp and a little ACV. In addition he puts in a "scoop" of Nupro, because he feels it gives them more "good" stuff. We give it all with 1/4 cup Yogurt, chicken w/bone, venison and/or gr beef, eggs w/shell, sometimes on a fish day, canned Mackerel, maybe Sardines. A couple of times a week they get beef liver and/or other organ meat and pulverized veggies approx 1/4 cup. We have started giving them beef heart since we can get it really, really cheap from a butcher.

We feed twice a day but only one of the feedings have all the supplements in it.

We rarely give recreational bones anymore because #1 they have long hairy beards and leg furnishings and 2 of them don't digest them very well - 1 gets extremely constipated and ends up upchucking bone fragments as well. We stick with the smaller soft bones in the chicken for them. They have alot of power in their jaws and go through a large bone too quickly.

I must add here that they LOVE their feedings........they will start whining and dancing around and starring at us 2 hours before feedings!

Any help or critique here will be welcomed....we have been flying solo except for the Leerburg website/forum & tons of other website info, plus the 2 books Leerburg recommends. I'm bracing myself........

How much is two squirts (in teaspoons)?

That doesn't sound like the amounts I use, which is a gram per ten pounds. A 100-pound dog would get two teaspoons a day from me (close to 10 grams).



Like you, I don't give recreational bones either.


It doesn't look to me as if Nupro furnishes anything at all that you are not already feeding.

Depends on which bottle.

For either one, though, you can give more than 2 pumps.

http://www.grizzlypetproducts.com/dosages/dosages.html

E.T.A -- I usually get the 8 oz. bottle, and one pump is so close to a gram its not worth worrying about. The recommendation on the bottle is basically the same as Connie's suggestion.

 Quote: Michael_Wise

Depends on which bottle.

For either one, though, you can give more than 2 pumps.

http://www.grizzlypetproducts.com/dosages/dosages.html

E.T.A -- I usually get the 8 oz. bottle, and one pump is so close to a gram its not worth worrying about. The recommendation on the bottle is the basically same as Connie's suggestion.

Yes, I'd give roughly 10 pumps from the 8-oz bottle or 5 from the larger size bottles for a 100-pound dog.

I thought I remembered that the Grizzly label dosing info was a pretty good one.

We get it in the 64 oz - BIG dogs and 5 of them from 75 - 100 lbs. My husband is running a pump test - 1 pump is not quite a TBSP. Label says 1 pump is equal to .12 fl oz or 3.5 mg. (I am not good with mgs)

Sounds like more is needed. Do you think increasing this is all we need to do to resolve the skin problems?

We also have 1000 mg Omega 3 Fish Oil softgels for our a 75 lb girl & the "new" greyhound. What would be your recommendation for them 2,4,6 geltabs?? Much easier for traveling with for the one and because the greyhound is being fed upstairs and the others are downstairs, that's where the oil is. Comes down to convenience and cleaner faces if at least for a couple of them!

On fish days - don't feed the supplements, right? But still the Vit E and maybe double up on it??

They also get blueberries.......Good ole Michigan Blueberries!!

Do either need to be kept refrigerated? We go through all rather fast.

We get it in the 64 oz - BIG dogs and 5 of them from 75 - 100 lbs. My husband is running a pump test - 1 pump is not quite a TBSP. Label says 1 pump is equal to .12 fl oz or 3.5 mg. (I am not good with mgs) .... Sounds like more is needed. Do you think increasing this is all we need to do to resolve the skin problems?

Well, if you are giving a couple of grams now and switch to 10 grams (about 2 teaspoons or 2/3 of a tablespoon), then it's going to make a big difference.

But one pump can't be almost a tablespoon if one pump is 3.5 grams (not mg, by the way). A tablespoon is about 14 grams.

Let's find out what you are giving now, because these two statements conflict:"1 pump is not quite a TBSP. Label says 1 pump is equal to .12 fl oz or 3.5 mg."

I don't think it says one pump is 3.5 mg. It must say 3.5 grams, which equals about .12 ounce. Please double-check. And if it says 3.5 grams, that's not even close to a tablespoon.

A gram is pretty small. There are almost 5 in a teaspoon and about 14 in a tablespoon. A mg is only a thousandth of a gram. (And tablespoons would hardly ever be involved in measuring an oil supplement like this.)



We also have 1000 mg Omega 3 Fish Oil softgels for our a 75 lb girl & the "new" greyhound. What would be your recommendation for them 2,4,6 geltabs??

Same thing. I'd give 7 to 8 of them for 75 pounds. One per ten pounds. 1000 mg is a gram. A gram is only 2/10 of a teaspoon.


On fish days - don't feed the supplements, right?

I don't differentiate. You can, though.



Do either need to be kept refrigerated? We go through all rather fast.

Either of which? Fish oil? Fish oil needs to be protected from heat, light, and air. If you ever accidentally let it get rancid, toss it. Rancidity doesn't just make ot less beneficial -- it makes it bad (a potential carcinogen, in fact).


PS Lots of people who are used to imperial measurements are uncomfortable with metric.