Taurine supplements

[Aitch]

Do any of you give Taurine supplements to your dog and if so which ones?
I am asking because I lost a dog to DCM some years ago and it has turned me into a total obsessive where diet is concerned.

 

[Ashley]

I don't give a supplement, but the food I feed has taurine added and I add fresh meats/cooked veggies/sardines and fish (I vary it daily) as toppers one meal per day. Sardines are a supposed to be good source of taurine for dogs. I mix an anti-inflammatory probiotic into the other meal, daily. It's really a mine field of information out there on DCM and diet, and taking the crazy amount of internet info, but also following vet advice for Quinn's post-intestinal surgery which has impacted her digestion, I think I've landed the best I can (for now - until we learn more).

 

[M.F.]

Apparently any hard-working muscle meat, heart muscle included, has a lot of taurine. So, if you are feeding that, apparently it’s enough. But other food that you might feed might interfere with taurine uptake, apparently the over abundance of ingredients added to replace grains and to increase protein content in kibble—such as too much beet fibre and other high fibre veg, and too many legumes compared to the amount of high-quality muscle meat in the kibble.

 

[Aitch]

I do cook for my dogs and try to cover all the bases but after losing a dog to DCM I'm really quite paranoid about diet so I think adding a supplement in would go a long way towards putting my mind at rest.
Just wondered if anyone else was doing so.

 

[snowbunny]

I don't use a taurine supplement, but I use NOW for calcium citrate and Jarrow Formulas for glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM. Both sell taurine supplement. The website iHerb.com is normally pretty reasonable (although they no longer deliver to Spain).