Royal Canin Calm for Dogs

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Shelly vn — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:53:16 GMT

Have you tried Scullcap and Valerian? I used to use them on my collie (until Zylkene came out) and they worked ok. Not as well as zylkene but well enough. Dorwest herbs do them and they're pretty cheap although you would have to give a lot of tablets but it might work out to be the cheaper option

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Skeelish — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:17:35 GMT

I would very strongly recommend long term behavioural modification using sound therapy and get in touch with a local behaviourist (see capbt website). often with firework reactive dogs there are other sound issues which the owner barely notices as they are no constant eg hoover, phone, traffice, microwave, lawn mover these do not go on for hours and hours and day after day. Calm is a good diet but only suitable for dogs under 10kg and im guessing your dog is not! being an Alaskan Malamute. However you can get the same effect using diet manipulation if this is considered suitable for your dog by a behaviourist.

Ellie x

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Alison Daff — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:04:32 GMT

Thats good news!

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Philippa — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:07:38 GMT

I have looked in the costings of Zylkene - way to expensive as I would need to buy a whole box of them as our practice doesn't use/recommend them (don't know why though if it gets good results)! The DAP diffuser used to work brilliantly for my old labrador but it doesn't make any difference with the malamute and to be honest he has that much hair the collar would just get lost around his neck. Also checked out the costings of Calm diet (before it was posted on here that its only for dogs upto 15kg and that would be too expensive as well.

Thanks for everyones advice, might just have to plug his ears with heavy amounts of cotton wool!!

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nin86 — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:04:47 GMT

Hi,

My dog also a compete nervous wreck with fireworks. I used the DAP plug in and the DAP collar plus Scullcap and Valerian tabs (dorwest herbs) and this combination really seemed to help. Also a big fan of Zylkene!

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chris beasley — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:16:27 GMT

I ve used calm diet in cats and dogs. Im afraid I have not had much success with the dogs, but have been very impressed with the cat one and often recomend it to clients. Recently had a client who was due to move house so advised her to use it for a week prior to the move. She phoned me after 3 days to say her cat (who is normally mad! climbing the curtains) was off colour as it was just sitting watching her pack boxes. She had forgot that she was feeding the calm diet. She even stopped it for a few days to make sure that, that was the reason! Good enough proof for me.

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Alison Daff — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:24:28 GMT

Hi Philippa

At present we only produced a canine version of Calm for dogs up to 15kg i'm afraid. If that changes i will be sure to let you know as we have had huge numbers of reports of really good results when using the diet.

Sorry we cant help more at the moment

Ali

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Jacquelyn Smith — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:39:05 GMT

Unfortunately yes. last year I lived 300 yards from harrogates 'stray bonfire' and was incredibly embarrassed that my 18month old moggy had more proverbial balls than I did. I am yet to find another 22yo that is scared of sparklers. Its taken years to find a music combination that covers the sounds so that I didn't have to medicate myself. I am very lucky that I have a love for heavy/thrash metal. From the medicated perspective, the effects of sedatives can be very disconcerting. I have had valium normally in the past, this can cause halucinations, dizziness, nausea, drowsyness, the list goes on. I, knowing that I have taken medication can rationalise it as a side effect, I can't imagine how an animal would feel about similar experiences, especially as it can be safely assumed that they lack the cognitive processes needed to realise that there was psychotrophic medication hidden in that lump of cheese. Therefore I could only assume that such side effects of a canine/feline/lapine/etc equivalent to the valium I received could be rather distressing to our furry companions.

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Susan Jackson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:25:21 GMT

[quote user="Jacquelyn Smith"]My cat and ferrets are both fine with fireworks, I however am terrified of then (no partying in the new year for me). I drown out the sounds with a combination of linkin park and slipknot playing simultaneously on two boom boxes. I used to get a prescription from my doctor but hated the groggy feeling the day after, for my pets, aswell as myself I always try a drug free alternative now before resorting to medication. Maybe you should try the music thing for your dogs?

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You must have a unique perspective of how it feels then.

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Vicky RVN — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:23:58 GMT

We tend to have TVs/music on louder than normal, lots of lights on in house and all curtains closed. Jusy have to make sure we aren't watching something on TV with fireworks on it!

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Jacquelyn Smith — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:14:36 GMT

My cat and ferrets are both fine with fireworks, I however am terrified of then (no partying in the new year for me). I drown out the sounds with a combination of linkin park and slipknot playing simultaneously on two boom boxes. I used to get a prescription from my doctor but hated the groggy feeling the day after, for my pets, aswell as myself I always try a drug free alternative now before resorting to medication. Maybe you should try the music thing for your dogs?

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Vicky RVN — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:01:39 GMT

I've not used the Calm diet. But my thoughts were, would it be cheaper to use Zylkene instead? Esp on a large dog. I use Zylkene for Jack during firework season, along with Scullcap and Valarian and when fireworks bad have to use Diazepam

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wendy mcadam — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:11:20 GMT

two of my receptionists tried the calm food with reasonably good effect the only problem was that both dogs gained alot of weight and as both are small breeds one a west highland terrier and one a jack russell terrier, Royal canin tech support checked the feeding guidelines and were happy with the amount we were feeding the dogs but still continued to gain the weight. We have since taken both dogs off this and have gone back to using zylkene and their weights have returned back to normal.

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Sara Benton — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:11:52 GMT

Zylkene is great. I also had good results for my crazy terrier with RCW Calm diet. We used it when we moved house and it really helped. The feline version has also done wonders for one of our clients.