Aspen the Yorkie

It’s rainy today where we live in the northeast, and sometimes I feel a little more achy on days like that…after all, I’m going on 10 years old.  I do pretty well, but can’t jump up on the couch or my owner’s lap without doing a few tries first.

I wonder how it will be later on, though, when I get to be an even older little dog? Will my joints hurt even more? My owner doesn’t like to take me to the vet unless it’s an emergency, and we have had a few of those. It’s expensive, though, and anything that they offer for you to buy at the vet costs a lot of money, so she does her best to find good deals on things to take care of me.

She just asked me if she could tell you about something she just found, glucosamine for dogs. She said people take this for their joints, and so can dogs. It actually has a way of rebuilding and repairing the worn out cartilage in the joints. Do you know what cartilage is? I love chicken, but can’t eat the bones.  When you take the meat off the bones the next time, take time to look at the leg bones…you’ll notice that at the ends of each leg bone joint, there is a smooth, white covering, that is the cartilage, the part that makes the joints move against each other smoothly. When it wears down, there is pain, and that’s where glucosamine comes in. My owner knows all these big words because she’s a nutritionist.

If you visit the links in this post, you’ll find that there is a great sale going on while supplies last, and sales are important with the economy the way it is these days…at least that’s what the humans around me are saying. You can buy a bottle of Osteo Pet and get another one free, that’s a whole lot better than what you would pay at the Veterinarian. OH, and the shipping is free, too!