I just adopted an 8 week old pitbull puppy (razor edge and american pitbull terrier mix). I am feeding him completely raw (from Suzy's Doggie Delights in AZ). I've done some research on supplements, but most of it is out of date. I wanted to know what supplements you would recommend and size amounts. I bought Grizzly Salmon Oil and Vitamin E for him, but am unsure of the quantity and how often I should be giving it to him. He is about 7 pounds right now. Any help would be great!

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I am not sure how to attach a jpeg.

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He is fabulous, what a sweetheart! Those eyes, puts a soppy grin on my face

 Quote: Fara Bennett

I just adopted an 8 week old pitbull puppy (razor edge and american pitbull terrier mix). I am feeding him completely raw (from Suzy's Doggie Delights in AZ). I've done some research on supplements, but most of it is out of date. I wanted to know what supplements you would recommend and size amounts. I bought Grizzly Salmon Oil and Vitamin E for him, but am unsure of the quantity and how often I should be giving it to him. He is about 7 pounds right now. Any help would be great!

The directions on the Grizzly bottle are pretty good, although I don't remember if they go down to 7 pounds. Post back with what you come up with ... I don't have a bottle of Grizzly on hand, but can figure out if it's about right.

If he weighed ten pounds, you'd want to be giving about a gram (or one-fourth of a measuring teaspoon). So if they don't give such a small dose on the bottle, we can back into it, using a one-fourth teaspoon measure and making it scant instead of full.

I'd start with half of their given dose and work up to the whole thing over a couple of days (probably not necessary, but diarrhea is much easier to avoid than fix!).

What kind of Vitamin E did you get, in what size gelcaps?

Thanks for the info. Grizzly says to give half a pump for my size pup. As for the Vitamin E, I purchased Puritans Pride Vit E- 100 iu.

Thanks for the info. Grizzly says to give half a pump for my size pup. As for the Vitamin E, I purchased Puritans Pride Vit E- 100 iu. Do I give these daily?

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Thanks for the info. Grizzly says to give half a pump for my size pup. As for the Vitamin E, I purchased Puritans Pride Vit E- 100 iu. Do I give these daily?

Then I'd start with a quarter of a pump and work up over three days or so, checking on the poops each day. (Again, fish oil isn't one of the likely diarrhea-triggers, unless overdone, but it's always better to avoid any diarrhea you can.)

I think Puritan's Pride has both natural (d-alpha) and synthetic (dl-alpha), with the word "Natural" on the front label of the d-alpha. (Natural, or d-alpha, is what you want, IMO as the minimum requirement, in any brand, and, if possible, "with mixed tocopherols." And with such a small size gelcap, the price difference per cap is pretty insignificant. If I had purchased dl-alpha and couldn't return it, I'd probably consider using it at a rate of every other dose and getting d-alpha -- preferably "with mixed tocopherols," for the other doses. There are longer and more detailed threads here about why dl-alpha is less desirable; supplements might be a good search word.)

For the dose, yes, 100 IU is probably the smallest that's readily available. I almost never run across 50 IU.

IMO, you could give one every other day to this tiny size dog on this tiny fish oil amount.


All JMO!