VetriScience Extra Strength Gut Health Capsules, Probiotic & Prebiotic Digestive Supplement for Dogs & Cats, Digestion Support, Gas & Diarrhea, Immune Support, 7.5 Billion CFU Per Capsule, 180 Count

These probiotics are great! My cat has IBD so I sprinkle this lightly on his food and it gives him healthy, firm stools. He is full of energy and joy. I have tried many other probiotics for him but these are the best.VetriScience, please never change it or add unnecessary harmful ingredients and you have a customer for life.

Note That This Is In Capsule Form!!I adopted a young dog from the animal shelter 6 weeks ago, and the poor thing had constant loose stools/diarrhea despite all my efforts. I used several rounds of cooked rice and chicken blended in the blender with only temporary success.I have purchased 3 types of probiotics to experiment with here on Amazon, and this is the first to be tested. Within 24 hours he was much improved. It has been a week now, and although his stools are not totally solid/dry, they are much better.He has some skin irritations which have not changed with the use of this product, but perhaps that condition will improve with time.The capsule form is messy to give him in peanut butter, and his appetite is inconsistent, ie: he may or may not finish a certain amount of food he is given at any one time. A powdered form of probiotic sprinkled onto his food might lead to inconsistent administration of the "good stuff" unless I mixed it into a small amount of soft food first. I simply press two capsules into a teaspoon of peanut butter and he swallows it all whole. Of course, Pill Pockets would work too.UPDATE #1: Use caution when handling this product--It looks like any other white capsule. I take an almost identical probiotic myself, and this morning I mixed them up and mistakenly took the VertriScience! This afternoon I found myself in the middle of the street licking myself and a car came around the corner and almost hit me!Update #2I purchased 3 probiotics from Amazon for my dogs [3 pooches; 2 with moderate to severe diarrhea]:VetriScience Laboratories Mega ProbioticDoggone Best Products ProbioticsNucleOtics ProbioticsVertiScience made a definite improvement, but the capsules were difficult as one of my dogs will spit them out or did not eat them if mixed in the food. Pill Pockets are expensive, and peanut butter is messy. The other option is to open them up and sprinkle the contents on the food. But why then have a capsule, which is an extra cost?Next I used the Doggone Best, which is a loose powder. The digestive health continued without change. I only used about 2/3 of the 8 ounce jar before experimenting with NucleOtics.NucleOtics has a lot of yeast, and is only 2.12 ounces. Again, a loose powder with a tiny scoop. The loose stools returned, but not bad as before starting, but bad enough that I went back to The Doggone Best.My conclusion is that Doggone Best is the choice for me, although VetriScience is a good product.. Doggone offers good value for an effective product. The drawback is the scoops in Doggone and NucleOtics are tiny—easily lost in the jar, and a lot of powder ends up on one’s hands. I suggest that you get an idea of how much product is right for your dog—using the scoops provided a few times, then toss them and simply sprinkle the powder on the food. Adding some water or canned food to kibble will help it stick and be consumed by your dog[s].Overall, mark me a big believer in probiotics for dogs!

Two months ago my 10+ yo, large-breed Agility champion had an entire night of diarrhea & vomiting. Her last meal included some kibble from a new bag of the same food that she had been eating for years, which caused her problems (according to the manufacturer). Since none of my dogs had had diarrhea & vomiting for many years, I did not have a solution on hand. A friend recommended Vetri Mega Probiotic (VMP), & Amazon delivered it the next day. Right away, I switched this dog to a different kibble (one that she had eaten successfully in the past) & gave her VMP after each meal. Her bowels immediately returned to normal & have remained normal ever since. Yay!This success got me to thinking about another dog of mine who has had excess tartar on her teeth since puppyhood with no solution from the vet/PetSmile/other efforts. I decided to see whether VMP might help her. Within two weeks of taking VMP daily, her teeth had significantly less tartar build-up. Now -- one month into taking VMP -- her teeth are tartar-free. Yay again!I am impressed! VMP is a truly wonderful product, & I highly recommend it!

Our lab/retriever mix has developed IBS as he has gotten older, and the only way to treat it is with a course of antibiotics. The tummy upset during the IBS events and after the antibiotics would cause some serious stinky gas and waste. We tried Greek yogurt (plain, no sugar, low fat) on the recommendation of his vet, but when that didn't help, Next step was probiotics. Getting them here was a good bit cheaper than through the vet's office. I had asked about using probiotics for human use like those made by Phillips, but they don't offer the same type or number of microorganisms as this does. He's been on these for the last several months, through two bouts of IBS, and so far so good. These capsules really helped keep down the gas and smell. It's visible that he feels better as well as before it was obvious he was feeling under the weather. While on these capsules he didn't seem to go through any 'off' days. We're hoping that keeping these in his diet will help with future IBS (vet thinks it's stress triggered. He doesn't like it when "mom" is away for more than a few days).So often we give our pets meds that the vet prescribes without thinking of side effects other than the vet saying it might make them drowsy or a bit loopy, and we as pet parents may not always look to see what side effects the meds might have. If you think about it, the (sick, sad) fact is many meds are tested on animals, and their systems react much the way ours do. It makes sense then to provide them the same precautions and preventatives that we would take when being given medications like antibiotics (so we take probiotics), pain meds (so we take stool softeners like colace or adding high fiber foods like pumpkin), etc.