VetriScience Calm & Confident Chews, Composure Clinically Tested Calming & Anxiety Ashwagandha Supplement for Dogs, Stress Relief, Separation Anxiety, Behavior Support, Chicken, 90 Count

These are a life saver for my poor boy. He is terrified of storms and fireworks. Shaking, shedding, panting, pacing, hiding, whimpering, all of it. EXCEPT when we give him these. Per the package, we give him a double dose based on his weight when a storm hits or near the 4th of July and he is able to just lay by my feet and I can comfort him with some scritches vs being inconsolable without them. He is even willing to eat them when he refuses other treats and food because he is so scared. Its crazy how well they work.

These work like a charm. It's amazing. Bella is a 10-year-old Belgian Malinois who is extremely excitable, stressed, anxious, and ornery. Nothing has worked to settle or calm her down. Even prescription anti-anxiety meds didn't help her. I am on our third or fourth bag, and I will not go back to how it was before these calming chews for all of our sakes. A month ago, I forgot to order a bag, and we went a few weeks without them, and she returned to her old anxious ways. We are a week back into the routine, and we are starting to see the calm take effect. She is still a busy Malinois, chases squirrels and lizards, and barks at people passing by, so it does not sedate her, but you can tell that she is more comfortable sitting and relaxing. She has a focus and composure that we have NEVER experienced, and she obeys her command so much easier than without the chews. The chews are easy to use, and I usually put them in her food. They are medium soft and look like a little piece of meat. She didn't love them at first, and I had to smash them up a bit and mix them in, but now she takes them whole with no issues. The smell when you first open the bag is strong, but I think letting them "air out" a bit before I give them to her helped.

Tried these for my new rescue dog. He ended up in doggy ER with a very inflamed colon after just one chew. I took the chews to the vet and she said the ingredients were great. But my new baby probably can't have any dairy. And with this having colostrum, she thinks that was the cause. Just make sure your dog can have dairy products before giving. I can't comment on if they worked or not, but my vet did say they were good ingredients.

I started these about a year ago, maybe two. As my dog has aged, he just turned 14, he’s gets more and more restless and agitated. He’s been checked out by the vet, there’s nothing particularly wrong, he just roams and paces and seems like he can’t settle. I tried several prescription medications, including trazodone and Prozac, and some herbals, also from the vet… Some of these had contrary reactions, making him hyper, like trazodone, some didn’t seem to have any response, like the herbal, and Prozac made him a highly sedated stumbling idiot. Anyway, I finally found these Composure treats on my own and they have been enormously helpful. I give him two at about 3-4 PM when his restlessness usually starts or peaks, and then I give him another 1 a few hours later or as late as 9 PM. They don’t sedate him or knock him out at all, they just chill him out. He just seems more comfortable in his little doggy skin after he’s had a couple of these. I read a couple reviews where people’s dogs had bad reactions like diarrhea, and I know how that is, there’s nothing worse than dog diarrhea, except for maybe nuclear war, and to those people I say I feel bad for you and your dogs, but it’s not really fair to then warn off everybody and everybody’s dog just because your dog had diarrhea when it ate these treats. All dogs are different, just like people, and just because one or some dogs get diarrhea from a treat doesn’t mean all dogs will. Chicken gives my dog diarrhea, but some people probably feed their dogs chicken all day long and have no problem. Anyway, I don’t write a lot of reviews. I just think this is a great product that more or less saved my sanity and I love Vetriscience products in general, I feed my dog about five different types of Vetriscience products and have had great luck with all of them. And no, I don’t work for them and no, I’m not an influencer and no, nobody gave me any money to write this, I actually did it out of the kindness of my heart! :-)

I purchased these for my 10 lb chiweenie, to help calm her before nail trims. I started with 1/2 a treat because 1 is rated for larger dogs. It had no effect so I increased it to a whole treat, with still no effect on calming her. I don't think you are supposed to give more than 1 a day for her size, sonI didn't, but thought over time, with one a day it might make an improvement. She likes to eat them but 1 treat daily a few days in a row gives her diarrhea and they did not relax her in any way whatsoever.