Nutramax Laboratories Denamarin for Dogs Chewable Tablets - 75 Count

Recommended by veterinarian for an older dog that had elevated liver values likely due to acute medical condition. Corrected the medical issue along with prescriptions and continued using Denamarin Chewables as it lowered particular liver values after a follow up lab visit weeks later. I prefer using these chewables rather than oblong pill version, these are larger but easy to chop up into small pieces and put into pill pocket treats so (my finicky) dog will eat them.

May pet was prescribed this liver supplement based on her current blood work. It’s very easy to split the pills to match her dose. This has greatly helped with her over all healthy and liver function. It doesn’t have a strong smell I’m able to just put the half pill inside half a pill pockets and she gets excited to take the pills every morning. Would highly recommend this supplement!

So far I have really enjoyed using this supplement for my dog. The high-quality ingredients show that the brand truly cares about the health of my pet. It's wonderful to know it supports my dog's liver health. The fact that it is the #1 veterinarian-recommended product gives me peace of mind. Plus, it contains s-adenosylmethionine, an essential amino acid for the liver. I am confident in this product's ability to provide the vitamins my dog needs.

We had a strange experience. Denamarin is supposed to help with elevated liver enzymes in dogs. Well, it didn't lower our dogs liver enzymes but practically overnight she went from being afraid to go on walks to walking a mile. Sam-e of course is frequently used for anxiety in people but we had no idea it would have the same effect on our dog. Our vet was stunned. He had never heard of that happening before. Or at least none of his customers had mentioned it to him, or put two and two together. If we skip a day, she won't go on a walk the next day. We've tested it out several times and are confident it's helping her with low-grade anxiety. He is ok with her taking it indefinitely because her not wanting to go on walks is unhealthy and could cause more problems for her down the road.

My dog is 12.5 yo, and has elevated liver levels. She's been on this for several months. Seeing improvement in her numbers! Doesn't work over night. Expensive but she's worth it. I would like to see a better price though. Must taste good because the other dogs want it too!

After I used up the first Denamarin formulation I bought directly from my vet, I switched to this once daily version at a substantial savings. So far, so good. My 11 yr-old corgi loves them.

Easy to use but the feast is not perfect so use a trite. Tye smell is not bad

My dogs can't stand these and refuse to eat it. I don't understand why a manufacturer of "chewable" medication can't make a pill that tastes halfway decent; one that dogs view as a treat instead of torture! My dogs go ape over Heartgard Plus, for example. They also love their bacon & cheese flavored joint supplements as well. Is it so hard to flavor Denamarin so that dogs actually eat it willingly, maybe even enthusiastically?The tablets are way too big for a "medium" dog (e.g. 20lb terrier). I have to cut them in quarters in order to get pieces that are right-sized for my dogs' mouths; which makes the task of giving them an entire pill four times more difficult. Further, the pills are too hard for my dogs to chew. To put that last statement in perspective, I can crush their chewable joint supplement pills into fine powder using my fingers alone, but I need to use pliers in order to crush a (supposedly) chewable Denamarin tablet into "mostly" powder (with lots of hard little bits left over).Frankly, I'm also left wondering whether the Denamarin does anything at all (other than change their normal poop into squishy mush!). The vet told me to start giving these to my dogs because they have elevated enzyme levels in their livers. The younger dog has had that problem for over a year now (since July '17), and the older dog just developed it within the last six months. [They're both old guys.] The older dog has yet to be retested, but the younger one that has been on it the longest has shown no improvement in his bloodwork AND has developed congnitive dysfunctional syndrome (a.k.a. doggie dementia), something else the Denamarin (SAM-e) is supposed to help keep under control.Lastly, Denamarin is way too expensive. Compare Denamarin (at ~$1.20/pill) to pure SAM-e (at ~$0.58/pill). Is the extra Silybin (an extract of Milk Thistle seeds) in the Denamarin worth more than double the cost of SAM-e? Might be better off just using plain SAM-e plus a separate Milk Thistle supplement rather than the propriatary Denamarin formula.I'm going to have to have a serious talk with my vet about what my dog really needs, and especially about other options available. You should too. This is a lot of money to be spending on something the dogs can't stand.-------------UPDATE 11-5-18:-------------After talking with my vet, and her doing a little independent research on her own, she gave me the okay to go ahead with my plan. So once I finish the current bottle of Denamarin (it's too expensive to just throw out), I intend to substitute a combination of pure SAM-e (MaxxiSAMe) and a Milk Thistle supplement (Vita Pet Life Liver & Kidney) for the Denamarin. I will report back once I know how it works out.In the meantime, let me share my method for getting my dogs to WILLINGLY take their daily Denamarin. Start with a small bowl and line it with a 4.25" diameter slice of deli ham. Thin-sliced is fine, but you don't want it so thin that it rips when folding it. Then I cut the Denamarin pill into quarters and, using a pliers (yes, it's that hard!), crush the Denamarin into powder over the ham. The Denamarin gets sticky when you crush it for some reason, so if you have a set of smooth jaw pliers, that might work better; I don't have such a pair (yet), so I'm constantly trying to dig Denamarin out of the grooves in the jaws (a toothpick works). After crushing the pills, there's still going to be lots of hard little bits in the powder. Try crushing as much of those hard bits into powder as you can; the less grainy the powder, the better. Then you need to add some sort of flavoring... I use a combination of the dogs' bacon & cheese flavored joint supplement (also crushed into powder form) and instant beef gravy mix. Bullion cubes/powder will probably work just as well. Then wrap the edges of the ham slice around the powder mixture (like a tortilla around a burrito), and voila! You have a jumbo-sized 'amuse-bouche' for your dog that masks the yuckiness of the Denamarin. Hand feed it to your dog to prevent it from unfolding or causing a mess, and hold the bowl under his mouth while he chews. Of course, Denamarin is supposed to be given on an empty stomach, so this technique somewhat defeats the purpose of giving Denamarin, but it's the only method I've devised that actually works with my dogs. I figure inefficient absorption is better than no absorption at all.