Smooth movers: joint supplements for dogs

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To support your dog’s joints and keep them strong, active and healthy may require a specific supplement
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Joint supplements are often recommended for dogs who need additional support to maintain healthy joints. Certain breeds are more likely to require this additional nutritional support as they get older because of their conformation, plus as they age their ability to produce protein to build and strengthen joints will wane.

Some vets advise using supplements as a preventative measure from a young age, especially if the dog has had an injury to the joint, to ensure a healthy joint is maintained. The best joint supplements for dogs will keep joint fluid healthy for ease of movement, will nurture the cartilage, and many will also contain ingredients with anti-inflammatory properties.

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Martha Terry
Martha Terry
Features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.