Exercise, weight, footing and home setup — the ordinary daily choices that decide how well an aging or recovering dog moves.
What Are the Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Dog Joint Pain?The most powerful anti-inflammatory lever in your dog's food bowl isn't fish oil. It's portion size. In the 14-year Purina lifetime study of Labrador Retrievers, reported by Kealy and colleagues in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (2002), dogs fed roughly 25% less than their paired littermates developed…Read the guide →
Dog Joint Pain Weight Management — What Works | pawgenIn the Purina Life Span Study (Kealy et al., published in JAVMA in 2002), Labrador Retrievers fed 25% fewer calories than their paired littermates lived a median of 13.0 years versus 11.2 years, and they developed radiographic hip osteoarthritis later and less severely. Same breed. Same kennels. Different food bowls.Read the guide →
Dog Joint Pain Without Steroids — Real Options | pawgenThe single most powerful intervention for canine osteoarthritis isn't in a bottle. In the Purina Lifetime Study (Kealy et al., published in JAVMA in 2002), Labradors kept lean on 25% less food than their littermates lived a median of 13 years versus 11.2 years, and developed hip osteoarthritis later and…Read the guide →
Dog Joint Pain Without NSAIDs: What Actually Helps | pawgenThe FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine requires that canine NSAID prescriptions be dispensed with a Client Information Sheet warning owners about gastrointestinal, kidney, and liver risks. That requirement is not decoration. It is the single most common reason owners start asking how to handle dog joint pain without NSAIDs, usually…Read the guide →
What Are the Exercise Modification for Dog Joint Pain?The most damaging thing owners do to a stiff dog usually isn't the long walk. It's the identical walk, at the same pace, on the same hard pavement, every single day, whether the dog woke up loose or woke up locked into a short-strided shuffle. Joints don't respond to averages.…Read the guide →
Dog Joint Pain Home Care Routine — Daily Plan | pawgenThe most effective thing most owners can do for a stiff, aching dog at home has nothing to do with a supplement bottle. It is the extra weight riding on those joints, and the slippery hallway floor the dog braces against forty times a day.Read the guide →