Who Should Buy a Joint Supplement for Dogs and Cats?

Joint supplements can come in a chewable pill, a capsule, or a powder. They consist of ingredients that are meant to support and maintain your pet’s joint health. While there are joint supplements with varied ingredients, the main point is to prevent and alleviate pain and stiffness in your pet’s joints. 

There are three main ingredients that can be found in most joint supplements, including SeaPet’s Super Joint Formula Powder for Dogs and Cats, in either powder or capsule form. The most common ingredients in joint formula are glucosamine, chondroitin, and MSM. Glucosamine’s purpose is to stimulate cartilage growth. Since joint pain generally comes from a reduction of cartilage, a product that can help grow additional cartilage is valuable. Glucosamine is given to dogs and cats to improve their mobility due to a decrease in their joint pain. Chondroitin is included because it inhibits certain chemicals that destroy cartilage. It’s given to pets to prevent additional damage to their joints. MSM works as an antioxidant that provides biologically active sulfur, which is an important component of your dog or cat’s connective tissue.

There are certain things that a joint formula supplement should be formulated to do to support your pet’s joint health. The first, of course, is to be safe. Are the ingredients, both active and inactive, safe for your pet to take? If you have any doubts about this, talk to your pet’s veterinarian.

Next, you want to consider the specific active ingredients in the joint formula you’re considering. The type of ingredient and the amount matter a great deal. Each ingredient needs to be proven scientifically to help boost your pet’s joint health. This can be either by helping to repair damaged cartilage or by reducing the pain caused by excess use or inflammation. The dosage should also be effective enough to make an impact on your pet’s health and pain level without being high enough to cause any potential problems.

Finally, you want a supplement that you can get your pet to eat. Most supplements are flavored in a way that’s appealing to a cat or dog, and they can come in a powder or capsule format. If your pet isn’t a picky eater, the powder should work fine. If they are more particular, it might help to hide a capsule inside a piece of some kind of food they enjoy, or even to give to them by hand.

SeaPet’s Super Joint Formula Powder or Capsules contain the top nutrients needed by pets to aid in healthy cartilage maintenance and prevention or treatment of painful loss of cartilage. Our product contains MSM and shark cartilage. Shark cartilage contains glucosamine, chondroitin sulfate, and angiogenesis-inhibiting properties. One of the main purposes of angiogenesis-inhibiting properties is the prevention of cancerous cell growth. Each of our ingredients meets or exceeds standard guidelines for purity and quality. You can purchase them with an organic oat bran base or grain-free. 

Just as animal joint pain does not generally make a sudden appearance, joint powder formulas do not act instantly. The ingredients need an opportunity to work on repairing and preventing further damage before you notice a major difference. You can look for improvement anywhere from four to eight weeks after beginning a supplement regimen. 

The daily dose of Super Joint Formula Powder depends on a few factors. The weight of your pet must be considered first. During the initial, or loading, period, you will provide a higher dosage. This can help the supplement get working more quickly. And of course, the amount will differ depending on whether you are giving your pet the powder on their food or administering capsules. The following chart gives basic guidelines, though you should always check with your veterinarian when starting a new supplement.

Pet’s Weight	Initial/Loading	Maintenance
< 30 lbs	1 tsp    or	3 capsules	½ tsp    or	1-2 capsules
30-60 lbs	2 tsp    or	6 capsules	1 tsp    or	3 capsules
60-90 lbs	3 tsp    or	8 capsules	1 ½ tsp    or	4 capsules
> 90 lbs	4 tsp    or	10 capsules	2 tsp    or	5 capsules

Whether your dogs or cats are beloved household pets or working for you on the farm or in the barn, you want them to have the maximum range of movement with no pain. SeaPet has been providing supplements for your pets for over 20 years, and you can count on us to continue to do so with our Super Joint Formula Powder for Dogs and Cats. You can order as much as you need online. If you’re in the Menomonie, Wisconsin, area, stop by and see us on 24^th Avenue West. We’re open from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm CST Monday through Friday. We’d be so happy to see you!

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