Our Personal Experience with Buddy Bites
In August 2006 our 14 year old black lab, Montana, developed a limp and had a swollen front wrist. The vet diagnosed her with bone cancer and gave her 2-3 months. We were devastated. She was a great dog and still had lots of life left except for the swollen front leg that was the only sign of her cancer. Immediately, we started her on a regime of MSM, Glucosomine and Chondroitin. I had read that MSM relieves inflammation and within days the swelling had gone down. The drawback was that every morning I would fight with this 90 pound dog to get these important supplements (in pill form) into her. She was good. She would hold them in her mouth until I thought they had been swallowed, only to have them spit across the floor when I removed my hands from her mouth. She would hide them under her tongue and in her lip. I tried hiding them in bread or peanut butter. Many times I would get the pill back without the disguise! After approximately 3 weeks of this routine we ran out of the MSM. She was doing so well that we had forgotten the importance of the supplements and stopped giving them to her. After three days of no supplements the swelling was back and she wasn't walking. We knew the end was getting near but we ran to get more of the MSM and got back in the daily fight of administering the pills to Montana. Within days she had bounced back. She was walking again and she was back to herself. So without fail, everyday, Montana would get her 5 pills no matter how long it took or how much of a fight ensued. We saw our vet in March 2007, Montana need a rabies shot and they couldn't believe that she was still going! We fought the good fight with Montana until June of 2007. She took her supplements every day but with a struggle!
During this time we also had and still have a 13 year old golden retriever, Tucker, who has arthritis in his hips. He weighs 110 pounds so he has to keep moving. Knowing the vital importance of giving quality supplements to him to stave off the complications with this disease we gave him the same human supplements that we gave Montana. He felt left out anyway. We would give them to him for 3-4 days and then he would begin by returning his meals to the kitchen floor. YUK! So We would stop giving them to him. We would try on and off but Tucker's stomach can not handle the supplements at all. Tucker had become quite lethargic. He hated to get up to go out and some times he would collapse on the floor while he was walking. So for the most part Tucker and we had resigned that his life would be less and less active until he stopped moving altogether.
Enter Majesty's Buddy Bites.
We picked up the Majesty's Buddy Bites Flex and Omega at a trade show on March 9, 2008. We got enough to give him his full dose of three each per day. We set them on the counter and started on March 10th. By the end of the 3rd day we saw improvement and he hadn't lost his breakfast once!. Tucker was going out and actually taking a little longer outside. During the day we would see him taking walks around the house. He has made that his daily routine. It really was amazing to see this change. We were dosing him a couple of wafers every 8 hours or so. He started begging for the supplements. We have to hide them now or he won't leave us alone. But the absolutely amazing part of Tucker taking these supplements was the night that he ran away from home. Because of his immobility we never leash or fence him. Our closest neighbor is 1000 or more feet away through the woods. Tucker somehow made his way to their house. An hour later we were counting dogs (we have seven now) and noticed that Tucker was gone. Surely he was on the porch. We looked and looked for him and finally called the neighbors. Sure enough he had made his way to their lighted front porch and had decided to stay. It is April almost May. Tucker is doing extremely well not to mention his beautiful coat.
Although no one can guarantee the same results on every dog, however they can produce a more mobile dog with healthier joints, skin and coat. Without the daily struggle of dosing. I wish that I had had them when we had Montana. She would have enjoyed them and our morning routine would have been much less frustrating.
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