Hi everyone!

So I think we will have had our last adriamycin treatment (5th) be pursuing a metronomic protocol.  We are a victim of hemangiosarcoma.  We have only briefly discussed it with our oncologist and will discuss in more detail at our next visit on 11/1/2011.

What I did notice on the Tripawds downloads section (Guide to Metronomic protocol – great!) was the addition of a high quality fish oil.

We have been giving salmon oil from Wholistic Pet http://www.thew…..uct_ID=554 for about 5 years now, or since Butchey was about 2 years old.  We started giving it when we went to a raw diet.

We buy it in a large quantity – but do keep it in fridge once we have opened it.  My questions is if it takes us a few months to go through it, is the oil loosing any of its nutritional power?  Reason I ask is, someone just recently told us that she was advised to give salmon oil in capsule form because it stays fresher, and once you open a jug, it goes rancid in about a week. 

I am going to bring this up as a discussion topic at our next vet & oncologist appointments, but thought it a good idea to ask here as well.  Of course, I am having a cow at the moment, thinking the product hasn't done my dogs any good since we buy by 1/2 galon or 32 oz size and it looses its potency. 

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Nancy (Butchey Hudson's Momma….and Lola's, too)

butcheyhudson.tripawds.com

Hi Nancy,

we are also doing MP with Abby (although she has osteosarcoma). We do fish oil with her, but she takes the same thing we take – a capsule from Costco. I was worried the Costco (Kirkland) brand would not be great, but did some research and found a report (forget where… somewhere reputable) that said the Costco brand (among others) were studied by Harvard Univ'y Med School and found to not have significant levels of mercury. (Hubby has a friend who is always pushing him to take fish oil derived from algae as it is supposed to be mercury free – but he would go through a bottle of it / week with the amount he takes!) Anyway, we like the Costco one because it has 900mg of DHA/EPA (i think those are the right names…), which is a LOT, so I can get a ton of the good stuff into her with just one pill. (Luckily she doesn't have a problem w/ pills and I just pop them into the back of her mouth.)

I had also read that the liquid goes rancid quickly – but don't remember where I read it and don't know if it's really true or not. Maybe someone else can chime in on that.

Hope the pups are doing well. They sure are cute!
Jackie, Abby's mom

I've been giving Percy the Nature Made fish oil gel caps.  He won't eat the gel caps, so I cut a hole and squeeze the oil into his dinner.