TAURINE FOR DOGS -- For Dog Hearts Everywhere.

Your Dog's Heart Needs One Thing Most Diets Don't Provide. And the consequences of that gap are silent.  Until they aren't. Lynn's Lab Molly was five years old when the diagnosis came.  Dilated cardiomyopathy. DCM. The kind of heart disease that ends dogs' lives. The cause, it turned out, was something completely preventable: taurine deficiency. The diet Molly had been eating — one Lynn had chosen carefully, believing it was good for her — had quietly starved her heart of the amino acid it could not survive without. With high-dose taurine supplementation and the right care, Molly lived to 12. Seven years past diagnosis. Seven more years of the dog Lynn had almost lost to a deficiency she hadn't known to look for. That story is not rare. It is happening in households everywhere that feed grain-free diets — and in households that don't, because taurine deficiency can occur regardless of what's in the bag. The difference between the dogs who develop DCM and the dogs who don't is often thi