YuMOVE Digestive Care for All Dogs

Gut supplements are one of the few places where the mechanism is easy to state: probiotics add bacteria, prebiotics feed the bacteria already there, and doing one without the other is half a job. Most products on this shelf do one. This does both.

YuMOVE describe it as combining probiotics with their BioActiv complex — three different natural prebiotics — and say it is the only supplement for dogs to pair the two that way. They aim it at dogs with sensitive digestion, and the stated effect is topping up good bacteria and crowding out bad. It comes as 120 tablets given daily, either mixed into food or straight from your hand, and YuMOVE have been researching their supplements for more than 15 years.

• 120 tablets
• Probiotics with three natural prebiotics
• Aimed at dogs with sensitive digestion
• Given daily, in food or from the hand
• More than 15 years of YuMOVE research behind it

Sudden digestive trouble is not what this is for. A dog with new diarrhoea, blood in their stool, repeated vomiting, weight loss or an obvious loss of appetite needs a vet, not a supplement — those signs have causes, and some of them matter a great deal. What this is for is a dog whose digestion is simply unreliable over time, or one coming off antibiotics with their gut flora knocked about. YuMOVE do not publish quantities of the individual strains or prebiotics to us, so we cannot tell you how much of any one thing is in a tablet.

Who it's for: dogs with a chronically sensitive stomach, dogs recovering from a course of antibiotics, and owners who would rather do something steady than change food again.