No pet should ache. And no pet should take medications that may fix the ache but leave it with stomach ulcers, kidney or liver disease. So, we holistic vets look for medications that relieve pain but won't, as many NSAIDs do cause serious problems in their own right. My fear is that one of these pet NSAIDs will eventually be a catastrophic kitty Vioxx.
I've tried everything in dogs and cats, and one of the best pain medications I found is for humans. We have to use it "off-label" for pets. That is, it hasn’t been legally approved for pets, but it works for them, just as it does for people. I don't think aspirin was ever tested in pets, either, but it works for dogs. (Not very well for cats, though, because it cannot be given to them but every third day.)
The medication I like to relieve painful joints is Joint Optimizer from Pure Encapsulations. Heidi at The Holistic Hound is now carrying this med. I'm hoping all our local Berkeley, CA, dogs will benefit from it so they won't need to take as many potentially damaging NSAIDs, such as Rimadyl or Etogesic.
No, I don’t make money from from Pure Caps or from Holistic Hound, but I do get points in heaven every time I help a pet.
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