Biscuit’s Golden Year: How We Picked a Supplement for Her 8th Birthday Health Check By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the mygoldenretrieverlife.com Editorial Team · Updated August 2026 Key Takeaways Biscuit turned 8 this spring, and her semi-annual vet check flagged two things worth acting on: early tartar along her canines and slower…
Golden Retriever Food Allergies vs Intolerances: How to Tell the Difference By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the mygoldenretrieverlife.com Editorial Team · Updated August 2026 When Biscuit started scratching his ears raw at 3 AM and leaving little piles of diarrhea on the kitchen floor, I did what most golden retriever owners do:…
Senior Golden Retriever Supplement Stack: What Actually Works After Age 8 By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the mygoldenretrieverlife.com Editorial Team · Updated August 2026 Disclosure: This article may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This does not…
Golden Retriever Digestive Health: Breed-Specific Gut Issues and Solutions By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the mygoldenretrieverlife.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 Key Takeaways Golden retrievers are overrepresented in several digestive conditions, including food sensitivities, IBD, and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. Their predisposition appears linked to genetic factors affecting immune regulation, gut motility,…
Golden Retriever Digestive Health: Breed-Specific Gut Issues and Solutions By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by mygoldenretrieverlife.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 Disclosure: This article may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This does not affect our editorial…
By Lisa Chen · Golden Retriever Mom & Supplement Researcher · Updated July 2026 I fell for the “natural” trap with Biscuit, and I fell for it completely. There I was, two years ago, holding a bag of dog supplements in a pet store, and the label had a green leaf on it, the word…
By Lisa Chen · Golden Retriever Mom & Supplement Researcher · Updated July 2026 Over the past two years of writing about Biscuit’s health, one resource has quietly become the thing I hand to every golden retriever owner who messages me asking, “Okay, but how do I actually choose something?” It’s not a product. It’s…
By Lisa Chen · Golden Retriever Mom & Supplement Researcher · Updated July 2026 It started, as these things do, with a kiss I immediately regretted. Biscuit, my seventy-pound golden retriever, decided to greet me first thing in the morning with her full enthusiasm and her full mouth, and the breath that came with it…
By Lisa Chen · Golden Retriever Mom & Supplement Researcher · Updated July 2026 Golden retrievers are not low-maintenance dogs, and anyone who has loved one knows it. We are a breed-specific household in the truest sense: our entire world revolves around one seventy-pound, perpetually hungry, emotionally expressive golden named Biscuit. And over the years,…
By Lisa Chen · Golden Retriever Mom & Supplement Researcher · Updated July 2026 Sixty days. Five probiotics. One very patient golden retriever. If you had told me two months ago that I would be timing Biscuit’s bathroom trips and rating her breath on a spreadsheet, I would have laughed. And yet, here we are….