Your best friend has got sore and stiff and you’ve been giving CaniFlow to your dog but how long until see a change?
(For a more technical discussion about the difference between joint supplements and medicines click here)
Firstly, bear in mind you’re living with your dog and seeing them daily, you may not notice small incremental changes. Other family members or friends who know your dog may not have seen them for some time and may notice a change you haven’t.
Feedback from customers about how quickly they’ve noticed a change in their dogs varies greatly. Some notice, and have recorded in videos, significant changes in a week or less of commencing CaniFlow but this is unusual.
Most people say they notice initial changes at 3 weeks and continuous daily improvements in their dogs after that. Naturally these gains will slow after a while and their dog’s condition stabilises again.
Others say that they were giving CaniFlow for 12 weeks before they noticed a change but that the changes were profound and lifechanging for their dog.
If you don’t notice any changes over time, it may be that your dog requires a higher dose what we recommend. A minority of dogs only respond noticeably at the loading dose and this double dose has to be maintained for their dog’s mobility to continue to improve.
My advice is to follow this protocol if you are supplementing a stiff or lame dog:
- Take a ‘before’ video before starting CaniFlow, try to capture those moments or struggles that inspired you to start CaniFlow: struggles on walks, difficulty climbing the stairs etc.
- Start CaniFlow at the loading dose (2x maintenance daily, either in two doses or a double dose once)
- After 10 days reduce dose to maintenance
- Maintain maintenance dose for at least 5 more weeks.
- Check the before video with what you now see in your dog to see if there has been an improvement.
- If there has been a major improvement in mobility, maintain the maintenance dose
- If there has been a minor improvement, keep going for a further 6 weeks to see if they continue to improve, consider increasing the dose by 50%
- If there has been no improvement consider doubling the dose, back to loading, for a further 3 weeks to see if this induces an improvement in mobility, if no improvement
If you miss a dose one day, give a double dose the following day, if you miss two days give twice the dose for 2 days etc up to repeating the loading dose for a maximum of 10 days.
These are general suggestions, for CaniFlow to stand the best change of helping your dog’s mobility, you need to be consistent and patient.
Unfortunately, not all dogs will respond, that is to be expected but the improvements that some owners report, despite how long it sometimes takes, are well worth trying to achieve.
As always please drop me a line with any questions or feedback to humphrey@caniflow-vet.co.uk or WhatsApp to 07470 826968