Diamond (Ma.) on 04/17/2015

Here is someone else's review on Amazon.com on using Ester-C..

Ester C has fixed SO many problems with my dogs. For one example my girls had real thin placentas. This was a problem with multiple dogs. I put them on Ester C and totally fixed the problem. Next time placentas were nice and strong and thick and vet couldn't believe it was the same bitch. For another example I had a dog jump come down totally lame. She hurt her back somehow playing or jumping off the couch or something, but she couldn't even stand on her hind legs. I did maximum dose of Ester C for her system (everyone's is different so you have to find for each case), and did cold laser therapy and she was up and running around in two days. ALL of my dogs get Ester C sprinkled on their food with EVERY meal it is a miracle supplement in my book and I insist that ALL my puppy owners give to their dogs for life. It promotes deep tissue healing, growth and health. If you have a dog with bone problems like the hips, put them on their max dose and it will take away the pain and they will be up and running around. It doesn't fix the bones, but it does strengthen the tissue around them to support them. WONDERFUL, INCREDIBLE stuff. Some doctors will give intravenously after surgery as it promotes faster and better healing. I give max dose after my girls C-sections for the same reason. There are TONS of health benefits to vitamin C. I look forward to more studies on dogs.

Replied By Michael (New Zealand) on 07/21/2021

Hi Esther, I thought that they, (unlike humans) make their own Vitamin C? Cheers, Michael

Replied By Cindy (Illinois, USA) on 07/22/2021

Dogs and cats can make vitamin C but only if they're eating actual meat. Dog food, no.

For supplementing pet diets, I put what I think they might need in their water. Then I put down two water dishes, one with and one without. If they need what's in the water, they'll drink some. If not, they won't. For vitamin C, I'd use L-ascorbic acid - made from actual fruit - or give them some broccoli, as treats.

If your pet is raw fed the only supplementation they might need would depend on what you feed them. Organ meat treats might be one - or if you fear giving them bones for some reason, you'll want to do something about that. Not sure what. I had a male chihuahua rescue that would only eat hamburger. He'd eat a liver treat every once in a while but no bone.

The female loved chicken thighs. Of course, initially, that's too much bone until they'd adjusted so you'd want to keep it down to smaller amounts of bone, initially. But that's not to say they won't WANT bone. They absolutely will. So be sure to dispose of it accordingly. The problem is that initially, it's too much calcium and stools can be extremely difficult until they've cleared out the grains built up from dog food and adjusted. Nearly all of the meat is digested very quickly, as with humans, so, until their intestines are cleared of grain gunk, you'd want to go easy on the bone.

Humans have two modes of digestion - one for meat and one for vegetation - so it's best not to mix them. Either eat meat or eat veggies - and be sure you give the veggies time to be processed before you eat anything else. As I said, meat is digested and put to work very quickly and, apparently, contains everything the body needs to manufacture whatever other nutrients it might require but veggies are different. You need a continuous supply. Like grazing. If you ate a pound of meat, you could go 2 days without hunger but not with veggies. I suppose, in a way, eating only veggies would keep you busy and out of trouble!! Aside from whatever time one might spend criticizing meat eaters....

Replied By Sheri (MI) on 12/21/2022

Hi Esther, I started giving my cat Lypo-Spherical Vitamin C, 1000 mg a day. They are packets in a gel like form. I do it twice a day, 500mg each time. I pour the gel like form into a little water and syringe it into him. This is said to make a big difference, especially in lymphoma cats, which mine is. He has been on it for 2 weeks and he has shown vast improvement.

Replied By Michael (New Zealand) on 07/22/2021

Hi Cindy,

Your post was very informative and interesting-thank you. We don't have pets any more since the children left us for pastures new! We find them a bit of a tie if we need to go away for instance (the pets that is!! ). We used to have a small farm though, and a few cats would sometimes arrive from who knows where and "adopt us". My favorite Aunt kept a lot of animals and always cautioned me NEVER to feed cats chicken bones, as the sharp bits (after they have crunched the bones up a bit) will often stick in their throats and kill them - not a nice way to go!! I would hazard a guess that most cat owners would know this already? Family lore relates that one of my ancient relatives suffered the very same fate back in pre-history, so you have been warned!! Fish bones can be tricky too but cats seem to cope with them better than we do. Your note about the human digestion of meat surprised me though. I was led to believe that one of the arguments against eating meat (and aren't there lots these days! ) is that it can lodge in remote parts of the intestines/gut and putrefy, thereby leading to other problems of course. What might surprise some animal lovers is that KIWIFRUIT SKINS (and even mackerel innards) can kill a dog, so feeding your favorite pooch a vegetable diet is not without its challenges either. In fact, there is quite a long list of foods NOT to feed pets, such as chocolate. It is surprising how perceptive animals are when it comes to offering them food. They can sniff out subtle differences between two bowls of slightly different foods - witness those dog and cat food ads on the telly! We would have to hide our cat's antibiotic pills in a choice piece of meat before they would accept it. It even wised up to that little subterfuge after a while too!

Cheers from Down Under

Replied By Cindy (Illinois, USA) on 07/22/2021

You don't want to feed ANY animal COOKED bones but raw is a whole different story. But, of course, if one is afraid, then it wouldn't be a good idea - just for one's own peace of mind - but carnivores eat bone. Not because it's "there" but because they need it. It's part of their natural diet.

It's amazing how mammals survived all of those millions of years without experts to control their diets -