Supplements and drinking for sporting dogs: what the evidence shows
Most sporting dogs get more than food and water. In a survey of 494 agility dogs in the USA, 62 % of owners gave supplements, most often joint products, followed by fish oil (Dinallo et al. 2017). Among 394 flyball dogs the figure was as high as 78 % (Koh et al. 2020). I wanted to know how much of this is proven. The answer is short: little.
Here is what research shows about the common supplements and about drinking, what it does not show, and what I give myself.
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