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My father has been a Jindo breeder in South Korea for 18 years, and he swears by giving dogs a couple of sheets of nori (Seaweed sheets) every day as a snack. According to him, the nutrients makes the fur grow out thick and shiny, and also has great health benefits to the heart and thyroid.

I've been shredding organic Nori and mixing it into Mckenzie's food every day for the past two months, and there seems to be a significant difference in her fur in terms of it being more vibrant and soft. I just wanted to share this with everyone, and am also wondering if anyone else has given their dogs nori, and how they found it?

Thanks for reading! :)
 
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k9kreationz said:
Is it the kind you use for sushi? Because the other kind are flavored a bit, aren't they?

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Yup, the other kind is fried and seasoned, and shouldn't be given to dogs. I get her the Sushi nori, which is just plain sheets of seaweed with no additives. They usually come in big square sheets, but I like to cut them into convenient strips with scissors so she can eat it easier. Mckenzie loves them!

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I've read that sea kelp does that to coats. That's the same as seaweed right?

Not sure if the dogs will like the taste, but I can just see their faces when the seaweed gets stuck on the roof of their mouth! :lol:
 
Isn't it funny that dogs love things like this? I have been giving my senior sheltie kelp for about three weeks and holy molly his fur is growing. There were spots where the hair had refused to grow, and it has spurt out even! So I started giving it to my other sheltie to see what would happened and now her coat is thicker. It definitely helped mine with respect to coat. I would think that's a good sign :) My senior boy also gets wheatgrass every day and he loves it! My other three dogs beg for it, too. So funny because if you have ever had wheatgrass, you can't imagine someone begging for it based on taste. However, it gives you energy like no other. Dogs will eat anything, I suppose. I make a mixture of kefir, apple cider vinegar, kelp, wheatgrass, bee pollen, chia seeds, magnesium oil and coconut oil every day for him and he scarfs it down and I'm like perplexed b/c I want to vomit at the sight of it. I eat all those things, but not lumped together! LOL His health has been improving, though.
 
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Where do you find kelp Mary? Can you go into more detail, if you don't mind. I have no experience with sea nutrients and would like to learn especially with those positive outcomes.





Kate
 
famous seamus said:
Where do you find kelp Mary? Can you go into more detail, if you don't mind. I have no experience with sea nutrients and would like to learn especially with those positive outcomes.





Kate
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I had bought my supplement from a vitamin store, but in the future, I think I'll be ordering from this site: http://www.bckelp.com/BCKelp-AboutKelp.html

You can even get it at Wal-Mart but you have to be careful because a lot of vitamins have crap added to them like sugars and other things that. They really make it difficult to get pure products, but thankfully we have the internet! Also, while I'm sure it affects everything, the kelp on that website is from the US so maybe it will cut down on the radiation a bit.

The benefits of kelp/seaweed are great. The chlorophyll in it has fabulous benefits as I'm sure everyone knows. Kelp is also one of the best sources for iodine, and if you use sea salt (which you really should!) it's lacking that so it is important to make up for it in some way. You should check your other supplements to make sure they don't have iodine also, though, as you only need a tiny amount. It also contains sodium alginate, which is very good for the body’s removal of heavy metals, and contains alkali, which is important for your body’s ph chemistry. Overall, very beneficial.

With that being said, I don't know the benefits of it in animals are the same, but I do know there are benefits to the coat as my foster dog had such little hair they were sure his thyroid was off, but now it's so thick you can't find his skin... and this is in two weeks! I read The vitamins and minerals it contains help to keep the skin nourished and moisturized. The seawater in the seaweed is very similar to human plasma, so using it everyday for your skin care and is an ideal way for your skin to get all the nutritional benefits it needs.

Cheers to good health!
 
We sell a similar product at the store, but it has not caught on in the same way as salmon oil has. But that it is staff and customer education primarily. I'll have to look into this more. Thanks for the info!
 
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