Vitamins for Your Pet
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| Types of Vitamins | |||||||||
 | There are two main types of vitamins. There are the fat soluble vitamin such as the Vita-Tabs (on left) that are stored in the liver and fatty tissues. Water soluble are stored in only very small amounts by the body. | ||||||||
| Fat Soluble Vitamins | |||||||||
Recommended Vitamins | Signs of Deficiencies that may occur in your pet | ||||||||
Vitamins A | Night blindness, retarded growth, poor quality skin and hair | ||||||||
Vitamins D | Rickets, poor eruption of permanent teeth | ||||||||
Vitamins E | Reproductive failure, brown bowel syndrome | ||||||||
Vitamins K | Increased clotting time and hermorrhage | ||||||||
| Water Soluble Vitamins | |||||||||
Recommended Vitamins | Signs of Deficiencies that may occur in your pet | ||||||||
Vitamin C | Slowed healing, increased susceptibility to disease | ||||||||
Vitamin B1 | Loss of appetite, loss of reflexes, loss of nerve control, weakness | ||||||||
Vitamin B2 | Poor growth, eye abnormalities, heart failure | ||||||||
Vitamin B3 | Hair loss, diarrhea, premature graying | ||||||||
Vitamin B6 | Anemia, Poor growth, skin lesions | ||||||||
Vitamin B12 | Macrocytic anemia | ||||||||
Biotin | Poor hair, dry skin, diarrhea | ||||||||
Folic Acid | Hypoplasia of bone marrow, marcocytic anemia | ||||||||
Niacin | Loss of appetite and weight, inflamed gums, hemorrhagic diarrhea | ||||||||
| Supplements and your pets | |||||||||
| Ensuring that your pet is being well taken care of by the right vitamins is the key to having a healthy pet. Vitamins are needed to ensure normal digestion, reproduction, muscle and bone growth and function, healthy skin and hair, clotting of blood and use of fat, proteins, and carbohydrates in their body. | |||||||||
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| But always remember to double check the package labels before giving any vitamins to your pets. Here are some qualities that you should watch out for before giving vitamins/minerals supplements to your pets. | |||||||||
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