Vitamins and Supplements Support Their Overall Health
Vitamins and supplements can be used to treat a specific issue or as a preventative to help ensure a longer, happier, and healthier life for our pets.
Digestive Enzymes
Digestive enzymes help your pet to absorb all the great nutrients found in their quality food.
Pre & Probiotics
Prebiotics feed probiotics – the good bacteria – to support your pet’s digestive tract.
Immunity
Whole body supplements work to support your pet’s immunity helping them to prevent illness and disease. Try options like sea kelp, hemp oil, and turmeric.
Balanced Omegas
Omegas can benefit brain health, skin & coat, and help to manage inflammation. You can find them in fish, flax, and hemp oils.
Taurine
An important amino acid, taurine is important for heart health and immunity.
Taurine is an essential amino acid for cats, who cannot make enough of their own.
Dental Care
Pre and probiotics, collagen, and tools like oral sprays and brushing help to prevent tartar and gum disease.
Where Do You Start?
With so many supplement options available, it can be difficult to know where to begin.
Here’s what we suggest:
Pre & Probiotics
These microorganisms are a great starting point to help your pet's digestive tract and their overall health.
Try them with digestive enzymes!
Digestive Enzymes
Often paired with pre & probiotics, digestive enzymes help your pet to get the most out of their quality food – helping to fuel them on all your adventures!
Targeted Solutions
If you're looking for a solution to a specific issue, like allergies, sore joints, or calming, there are a variety of options that target these issues specifically.
Consider one of these great products available at Pet Planet!
Why Give Your Pet Vitamins & Supplements?
The short answer?
To help them live a longer, happier, and healthier life.
Let us tell you a story of how vitamins and supplements can make a difference in a pet’s life…
Zini's Story
(July 7, 2001 – April 20, 2015)
Zini was the heart dog of a Pet Planet team member, and at the age of 11 was diagnosed with cancer.
His Guardian put her knowledge to work and changed Zini to a raw diet. She got him on supplements that she knew and trusted from Pet Planet.
These supplements – probiotics, colostrum, antioxidants, Omegas, and more – helped to boost his immune system to fight those cancer cells.
This combination of raw food, supplements, and a supportive holistic veterinarian had Zini doing well for more than a year!
“He had some hair loss but he still had that mischievous sparkle in his eye and was happy. Zini was having the quality of life that we wanted him to have.”
Though Zini did lose his battle, thanks to the supplements, holistic vet, and raw diet, his Guardians were gifted more time with their beloved dog.
Get More From the Food You Feed
Supplements can help your pet to get the most out of the quality food you feed.
Overall Health
They can help to arm your pet with additional defense against illness and disease.
Keep Them Going
Supplements can help to maintain their joints and cartilage – so they can keep going on any of your travels.
Your pet is the best indicator of their health.
Your pet’s body can actually help tell you when something is not right.
All you need to know is what to look for.
Frequently Asked Questions
Just like for us, a good vitamin or supplement can help to boost your pet’s immunity against disease, can work to treat specific injuries or ailments, and can be used as a preventative tool to help keep illness or disease at bay.
- Dental supplements will help to prevent tartar build up and gum disease that can ultimately lead to many other long term health issues – like heart disease.
- Pre and probiotics work to boost overall immunity (so your pets can fight illness and disease) while promoting a healthy gut.
- Taurine is great for supporting heart health and overall immunity.
- Joint supplements can be used as a preventative or a supportive tool for strong bones, joints, and cartilage.
- Balanced Omega 3 & 6 are a whole-body supplement that can help with brain, skin & coat, inflammation, and immunity health.
- Omega 3 fatty acids found in fish oils help to reduce inflammation and may reduce reactions to pollen and other common triggers.
- Coconut oil can help to improve skin itchiness and dryness.
- Digestive enzymes and probiotics can really help itchy skin by helping to support the digestive system to absorb nutrients and to eliminate toxins in the body.
- Yucca and MSM are known for their anti-inflammatory and itch-relieving properties.
- Supplements that are especially created to support seasonal allergies.
Bad breath can be caused from gas, bloating, poor digestion, and plaque build up. Feed a diet high in animal protein and low in carbohydrates. Probiotics contain live active cultures that can help odour. Digestive enzymes in probiotics will help balance the digestive system. Brushing teeth and/or offering chews and bones regularly can help remove plaque and tartar.
- Brush their fur daily to remove excess hair, especially in long-haired breeds.
- Offer fiber like pumpkin to their meals to help hair move through the digestive system.
- Adding a fish or hemp seed oil a few times a week to help lubricate the digestive system can help hairballs move along without causing digestive disturbances.
- Offer canned wet food daily as it’s easy to digest and helps hair pass through the body quickly. Canned food also offers many other health benefits.
- Offer a food specifically designed for “hairball control”. They use fish oils and increased fiber to help support and unblock the digestive system.
Offering a herbal calmer helps to soothe anxiety and is safe and gentle to use without altering their personality.
- Milk Thistle provides antioxidants to help prevent free radical damage associated with cancer.
- Marine Phytoplankton strengthens the immune system, has anti-inflammatory properties, and antioxidants to help remove cancerous free radicals.
- Chaga Mushrooms may prevent and aid in fighting cancer, support the immune system, and has anti-cancer properties.
- Turkey Tail Mushrooms help to prevent cancer, help to fight cancer, and supports the immune system.
- Omega 3 fatty acids like hemp seed oil, marine phytoplankton, cod liver oil, flaxseed oil, fish oils (salmon, trout, mackerel, tuna, and herring) support the immune system, reduce inflammation, support heart health, and increase the pet’s ability to fight cancer.
- Probiotics to increase food absorption to help support weight in cancer patients, boosts the immune system, and prevents leaky gut by ensuring proper digestion and nutrient absorption for cancer patients.
- Turmeric contains curcumin which has anti-inflammatory effects, helps to kill cancer cells, boosts the immune system, can inhibit tumour growth, and is an antioxidant that helps in fighting free radicals that can cause cell damage.
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- Probiotics will supply beneficial bacteria to keep the bad bacteria away.
- Supplements containing different forms of cranberries, D-Mannose, Glucosamine, and specific herbs help support a healthy urinary bladder.
- Adding bone broth, wet food, and/or wet toppers to their meals can help flush the bladder.
- Raw diets create an acidic environment in the bladder. It’s high in animal protein and low in carbohydrates and adds moisture.
- A diet high in meat content and low in carbohydrates encourages an acidic urine which makes it hard for bacteria to survive and reduces the risk of crystal or stone formation.
