Animal Essentials Plant Enzyme & Probiotics - Probiotics & Digestive Enzymes for Dogs & Cats, Natural Daily Gut & Digestion Support Supplement for Pets, Plant Based - 3.5 Oz

FINALLY!!!!! Okay, this is a long story, so settle in. My cat is about 2 years old, but last August he started having diarrhea rather frequently. I took him to the vet a handful of times between then and now, and he kept losing weight until he was down to about 6.5 lbs (very undernourished for a cat -- his ribs and spine were very prominent, his fur was mangy, and he had very little energy). The vet had me try antibiotics twice, then a FortiFlora probiotic from Purina. He wanted to do a $300 test to see if my cat had EPI (a pancreatic disorder) but I'm very tight on funds. So he said he could potentially prescribe a pancreatic (animal-based) enzyme supplement for my cat. Only problem? It's like $50 a month, for the rest of his life -- so around $600 a year. Not really doable for a grad student making $11k a year for the next six years. But I was going to do it anyway. Except, when I called to schedule the appointment, I wound up catching the other vet and he suggested that I try this plant-based enzyme first because the animal-based was so expensive (and needed a prescription). I am so glad I did. Within a few weeks, my cat's stools were finally solid again. They've stopped smelling horrendously bad (a sign of bad digestion) and he's stopped losing water constantly. His fur is becoming shiny and soft again, and his mouth and gums are gaining back their color. He seems more alert and has been very playful and mischievous again, which is a huge relief to see. I sprinkle about a teaspoon of this for every 2 cups of cat hard food and that seems to be the right ratio. I combine this with blue buffalo's sensitive skin and stomach cat food (which is easier to digest) and my cat seems to do pretty well with digesting. He has gained back a little weight pretty rapidly (no more bones for the most part!) so I'm hoping that weight gain will continue. I'm guessing one bottle of this will probably last me two or three months at least. Only drawback is that he instantly gets diarrhea if he steals even a little bit of my roommate's cat's food (which isn't supplemented, obviously).

My fur-child began having allergy issues soon after she was full grown. It started with the chronic ear infections, and led into infections in her feet between her pads. Then the itching began. No amount of trips to the vet ever found any cause or solution, other than MORE ANTIBOITICS! and "Come back in 2 weeks.". At the suggestion of a pet store employee, I switched my pup to Grain Free food. The infections ended! When my pup was about 5, we began having non stop itching issues. We tried different foods, and found that gluten free seem to reduce itching. It was only a few months later though that the digestive issues began. For the past two years I have been trying (obviously thoroughly trying an option and slowly introducing or removing ingredients/factors) to find THE food that would make my girl 'regular' again. For about 6 months my homemade food worked wonders (turkey/pumpkin/spinach/berries/calcium/turmeric/fat free cottage cheese/chicken gizzards...etc). Then it too quit working, and it's been a downward avalanche for over a year. She always tests negative for infections or worms, but continues to have diarrhea. In the past 6 months, there has been no relief or regularity. We had newspapers down at night in case my husband I were to sleep through her needing to go outside (pet door not an option). Some nights she would have up to 4 accidents, no matter what we tried with food type, timing, size and frequency of meals, additives, and on and on. This supplement was another whim to try. Our girl has lost a couple of pounds that she didn't need to in the past few months, so we believe she may have EPI and/or colitis in some combination. She has been on this supplement now for 3 1/2 weeks. It hasn't cured her and made her perfect, but she has gained 2 pounds back (which is a huge relief and progress!! Finally!), the accidents have stopped completely, and she's 'regular' in her timing. Once in the morning, once in the evening- for over three weeks. While I still am on the hunt to get the 'perfect poo', at least with this supplement she is actually getting nutrition from her food, and maintaining control over her movements. We all sleep better at night, and I can tell that my girl is happy to have some relief. In comparison to a lot of other products that we have tried with similar claims at a much bigger price tag, I am thrilled at the results we have gotten. I am going to add in Honest Kitchen's digestion blend to see if between these two supplements I can acquire the 'perfect poo'. I will update my post if I get good results. 9/2/16 Update: My IBS EPI dog is now 'regular' and healthy with Olewo carrots, Honest Kitchen Perfect Form, and Animal Essentials Plant Enzymes. It took some trial and error to find the required dosage and mix, but my girl has been perfect and on a 2x routine for 2 months now! I found my dosage to be 1/2tsp of each supplement fed with eat meal 2x a day for my 40lb dog. 4/26/17 Update: My pup held stable for over 6 months before she started loosing weight again. No adjusting of food or supplements seemed to help, and the final scare was when she started vomiting after every meal- I made an appointment for the vet the next morning and just gave my girl pumpkin and broth until then. The very expensive lesson I learned that I want to share with anyone who is suffering through anything like this is that my malnourished dog (who eats 3lbs of food a day to try and maintain a weight of 38lbs) is unable to consume and absorb vitamin B. Initially she started with b12 and b complex shots every other day for a week, then weekly, and currently biweekly. She is finally almost her ideal weight after 3 months of getting these shots (I currently use a B Complex available at TSC for stressed livestock), and retaining her Darwins diet, with this enzyme and probiotics. I have also added LGlutamine and Colostrum (500mg 2x a day) to her regimen. 9/17/18 update: We are now going to the vet for a monthly B12-complex shot. I switched from Darwins Raw to Raw Paws Pet food, the main difference being Darwins including a good portion of their recipe with veggies, of one (or more?) that my girl was still showing sensitivities to. Raw Paws Pet food is available in a 'with veggies' recipe or just meat formula. She's now only eating about a pound of food a day (used to be 3!!!) and is 47 pounds! I do still give her a tablespoon of canned pumpkin, as well as this enzyme, and glucosamine. We've been doing this for about 8 months now.

I started buying this brand from the pet food, etc., store near my house. I know the owner won't sell anything that she wouldn't use for her own dogs. So I knew it was a good brand. I have a 10 year old Weimaraner and having been using this for a while now. And he is doing well on it. I did find it a little cheaper on Amazon than at the pet store. I put it in his morning food along with the Omega 3 I give him each day.

It seems to me that if someone else has a different opinion about a product, they tend to mark your review as unhelpful. These people need to get a life. I have stated important FACTS about this product and you're a hater and a fool to mark this review as anything other than helpful. The reason I say this is because the exact same review is also posted by me for FORTIFLORA where, so far, 8 out of 8 people find it helpful. Purina Fortiflora Feline Nutritional Supplement Box, 30gm I encourage anyone who may have questions about my trials with this product to please post them on here. I will do my best to answer you in a timely manner. Also feel free to leave any advise or findings of your own. I remember taking Twix (my cat) to the vet and thinking the worst. From birth she just never seemed as vibrant as her two siblings. Every time you would try to pick her up or hold her, you would soon get a whiff of really bad gas. Not quite a year old she lay lifeless, sick, and far too skinny. The vet ran many test and I reached my limit around the $400 range. They couldn't tell me what was wrong but upon my mention of lifelong diarrhea, had recommended Forti-Flora ($40 for 30 pkts) It was less than a week and Twix had come to life. Her gas although not totally absent, had not been that dreadful smell that made you want to drop her and hurl. For the first time in a long time she was finally using the litter box again and she was regular. A month later, and no Forti Flora she slowly went back to the way she had been. AMAZON to the rescue. I was discouraged however because I didn't plan on the extra expense and chore of administering this probiotic every day. I already went through the trouble of finding the best food for her needs. I ran across an item on Amazon (Animal Essentials Plant Enzymes & Probiotics) that promised more and the price swayed me to try it. AWEFUL MISTAKE. We let the other animals use it as well, and seemed like they all had bad side effects. Twix especially looking more sick than ever. There's just no way possible I could recommend this product. If your cat has the same symptoms as mine, I really recommend staying away from this product. I'm going to keep using Forti Flora for as long as I have my baby girl, Twix. I have to feed her seperate from her brother, Neiman. He is crazy about the taste of the product. So is Twix. I'm so glad I found it for so much less than at my vet. But even if I had to make the purchase through my vet, I WOULD! My baby girl is worth it. Also, I am a fair person. This bottle of probiotic by far a lot more product than what you get with fortflora. It just too bad it didn't work for my cat and I used as directed until we ran out. I was thankful it was gone. I had to get something that would work for Twix ANOTHER UPDATE: just to bend over backward to try and be helpful as this is my most unpopular review, I found a great product at a lower price point than fortiflora and works very well. You may see the review here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RJX90E5J8CL29/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0053G8XE6&nodeID=2619533011&store=pet-supplies

So I originally got this for one of my dogs that was 8 years old at the time of starting this that was very gassy and also burping a lot after putting this in her morning wet food after about a month she wasn’t gassy and barely burped anymore! Her stomach you don’t hear gurgling anymore as well! Still to this day I give it to her every morning and I also give it to my other 3 dogs that are seniors as well and I feel like it’s helped all of them with their poops! It’s just a white soft powder that you add to their food I add it to their morning wet foot that mixes right in. All of them seem to like the taste and since it’s powder dogs with tooth problems can have it no problem. I get the larger size of bottle and I give it to 4 dogs every morning and still only need to purchase it about every 5-6 months with giving the amount directed.

I have a cat whose poop has always been unbelievably stinky. When I first got him, he had a bacterial infection of the herpetic sores inside his mouth (yes, cats can get herpes sores, they can get herpes -- who knew? ya learn somethin' new every day). So he had to go on antibiotics to clear up the infection. The antibiotics, however, gave him horrible diarrhea. So I took him back to the vet after he finished the course of antibiotics and was *still* having diarrhea. The vet RXed him *more* antibiotics. That cleared up the diarrhea, but, man!! His poop became this unbelievably raunchy, nasty stench all the time. I Googled, of course, and people recommended probiotics and plant enzymes for cats and dogs with super smelly poop. So I bought some of this and began sprinkling this on his food. I bought another enzyme product, but it didn't have the probiotics in it. I tried two weeks of the other, and two weeks of this, and switched off like that for a few months. (I also had to put L-lysine powder on his food to prevent herpes outbreaks, which is the same supplement recommended to people with herpes, which I know because I'm an RN and also a friend of mine unfortunately got herpes a few decades ago and has had to supplement with L-lysine ever since. But the L-lysine keeps the cat's herpes in check and he has not had any more mouth sores or outbreaks since I first got him from the shelter/rescue group. I suspect he had such a bad outbreak because poor baby was so stressed out in the shelter environment with so many other cats.) Anyway, his poop is still way stinkier than my other cat's, but not nearly as bad as it was after his initial and second runs of antibiotics. He seems to do well on this stuff. However, I must confess, I am far less religious about this stuff or the other non-probiotic enzyme powder, than I am about his L-lysine. The vet said the other cat shouldn't catch herpes from him, unless he's immunocompromised (which he isn't), but I don't want to take any chances. So I religiously put the L-lysine powder on his food EVERY DAY... but I sometimes go days or a couple weeks without this enzyme powder. Since he was on it religously the first four months, it seems to have helped. When I do give it to him, his poop is less smelly, but ever since his original dosing on this for four months or so, his poop has not been as bad as it was after the antibiotics. So, if your pet's poo is unbelievably, horribly stinky, give this a shot for a few months. It will probably work -- it did for my stinky poo cat!

I purchased this product after researching potential causes for my dog's random & unexplainable intestinal issues (colitis, possible IBD) which started when Hills Prescription Diet reformulated their I/D canned food. A bland homemade diet of chicken & rice failed to resolve my pet's issues, and research suggested that amongst other things, adding probiotics to your pets diet *could* help. Wanting to exhaust natural remedies before moving onto expensive tests and medications, I decided to give it a shot. I chose AEPE&P because it contained a few additional ingredients that according to research, could also be beneficial. I started adding the recommended dose to my dog's kibble (and only kibble) during each meal (2x/day). Within 2 days she seemed constipated so I cut back to 1x/day. Within another 2 days, I knew I'd struck gold. My pooch went from a mopey, listless, every-other-poop-was-a-gelatinous-and-bloody-mess pet to an animated, perky, normal pooper pet! For the past few weeks I have added the powder to her kibble every morning and watched her eating like a hawk (just to make sure nothing snuck in her mouth to ruin the happy effects). She has totally turned a corner and I am ecstatic (and relieved)! She has more energy and seems much happier - she's actually playing by herself now (before she wouldn't unless someone played with her)!!! It's only been 3 weeks and so far not a single instance of diarrhea, and even her vomiting (which was mostly water anyway) isn't as frequent. And her poop...it's the normal, smelly, semi-solid, same-color-and-consistency-every-time kind now. Hooray! Bottom line, I am totally thrilled with this product and HIGHLY recommend it for someone who wants to supplement their pet's diet with probiotics. I realize I took a risk in self-diagnosing my dog and trying this product without discussing it with my vet first, but that's a separate issue. I just want to rave about the product because it's been such a lifesaver and it's made such a huge difference in my dog's overall health. I will use AEPE&P for the rest of her natural life!

This probiotic really works. I gave a Chihuahua with a sensitive tummy and he gets 1/4 tsp a day with his breakfast. It keeps his poops firm. I also give to my two Shih Tzus a few times a week. I've been using this for years and it really works

Les enzymes ont aidé la digestion de notre chienne et ont réglé ses selles. Elles ne changent pas le goût de la nourriture. Bon produit, nous l'avons acheté 3 fois jusqu'à maintenant.

Mes chiens digèrent mieux leurs croquettes

I live in the UK and although this is coming from the USA arrives pretty quickly. I would recommend this product for your diabetic pet as it helps their digestive system. Excellent Product at an Excellent Price, Highly Recommended.

This has helped my GSD enormously. Stomach settled down, much less itchy and smelly. More energy and more playful, all round happier dog 😃

Kitty was spitting up meals sporadically. She is older and vet suggested enzymes would help. She was right. We've been using enzymes for about a month with great success.