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Yes, some joint supplements have these mixed already. The green lipped muscle has a wide range of substances that naturally occur in it including omega 3s, glucosamines, chondroitin sulphates. Some dogs (or people) find that they need extras of some of these and do better. Biggest tip for you to be able to do is to keep the weight off your dog (i prefer slightly under weight) and as fit and strong as possible - lots of exercise/swimming. This helps reduce excess stress to the joints. Joint guard is probably one of the better ones out there, but i would definitely combine with a green lipped muscle extract - have seen some great and rapid results with this. Thanks so much for your advice! The vet gave me some green lipped muscle, and I'll also order some joint guard. Excellent

great thanks you very much!!!

Hi, thanks for the welcome! I have read some posts on this forum about the best dry food, and it seems like this one might be the best. It's human-grade, and according to a poster on here who did a lot of research on the nutritional information of various brands concluded that Eagle Pack Holistic was at the top of his list. Sorry I can't give you anymore info! But it seems to be a conclusion I came to from reading a bunch of posts on here. heh. I used to live in Canberra..... I'm sure there are online sites though that stock it, it's just a matter of knowing which ones are trustworthy.

Hello everyone, Where is the cheapest place to buy Eagle Pack dog food? I live on the Northside of Brisbane and I don't mind driving to get some or ordering online. Thanks gg.

thanks for the explanation on Bowen therapy - very interesting! Is it ok if I use the lipped mussel capsules and glucosamine together do you know?

I might look into accupuncture.... the lady next door does it on humans... I wonder if she'd do it on a dog!!!

Hi magthedag, what is bowen therapy? It sounds interesting. It sounds like joint guard is a good product. I wish I had looked into his weird gait earlier in the piece, then it could have been diagnosed sooner and it may not have degenerated so far as it has. I guess we live and learn don't we? Thanks for your reply GG.

Thanks for this BostonGirl. I've written the name down and will talk to the vet about it as well. It sounds like its a good idea to stick to the cartrophen injections.

It sounds like the surgery my work well..... although femoral excision is when they cut the ball off the top of the femur and then scar tissue builds up or something! I read it a coupe of nights ago and I can't properly remember now! Thanks for your well wishes GG.

Hi Jed, I emailed the breeder yesterday. So hopefully she'll be pleased that I contacted her about it. My vet recommended that I walk him daily - she didn't mention about building up the muscles, but I suppose this is what it'd do! She said that daily exercise is much, much better than occassional exercise that may cause more harm than good. I need to go back in a week to have the next injection so I'll ask her about controlled exercise as well. Thanks for your reply. GG.

I've used it and was very happy with it. My brother once did quite a bit of research on dog food and he decided that was one of the better dried foods on the market. I also stopped buying it because only 'that store' carried it, but seeing as though its being carried by others now I might go back to it!

Hi poodlewrangler, Thanks so much for your reply. I'll send the breeder an email. I'm definitely not blaming the breeder because I do believe she is an ethical breeder and i've just been unlucky. Unfortunately I didn't know to look into the actual hip scores at the time, I just assumed that because a breeder had gone to the trouble of hipscoring that they wouldn't breed with a dog that had a low score. But as you said, it doesn't make a difference to some. Re surgery, I wouldn't consider the hip replacement (too expensive) but the femoral excision surgery (I think that's what its called) sounds like its somewhat cheaper and quite successful. I guess its a wait and see. It is a bit of shock.

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I didn't think it was abuse as such, until i saw irish charm's reaction.... maybe it was my use of the word hook that was the problem! All I know is that I don't really like it, so if I have a choice between somewhere that does it and somewhere that doesn't do it, I'll choose the latter. Thanks for your reply clarifying it all!!

Hi Janba, Are you saying that the new vet would have put her on something different than the prednisolone to extend her life ever further? He may have or adjusted the dose to suit the diseases progress as she was on quite a low dose. He did tell me that it was a drug of choice but also that if we had found it earlier that we could have used chemo. I also think that more could have been done in correct management of the disease if she had been diagnosed when the symptoms first appeared and in other holistic treatments to help support her. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for that.