FIREWORKS & LOUD NOISES
TRAVEL or BOARDING
HOME ALONE
NERVOUS OUT & ABOUT
OVER EXCITABLE
Dog calming supplements generally work by affecting hormones and neuro-transmitters to suppress negative behaviour, often leading to a mildly sedated condition.
Settlers does not work in this way. Instead it addresses the problem of why some dogs can't cope with stresses imposed on them, while others can. Anxiety and excitement, for example, are natural and vital behaviours, and it is better to control them than to suppress them.
Settlers achieves this by maintaining your dog's magnesium levels during periods of stress.
Settlers may help bring the highs and lows under control and reduce extremes of unwanted behaviours without sedation.
When a dog becomes stressed, anxious, nervous or excited, they burn off magnesium. This allows its partner mineral, calcium, to overload muscle and nerve cells and replicates the rise of adrenaline. This can cause erratic behaviour, sensitivity, nervousness, aggression and/or tension.
If magnesium reserves become low he will stay in a stressed condition rather than relaxing and forgetting about the bad experience he has just suffered.
Boosting magnesium levels enables your dog to quickly recover from the initial stresses and behave more normally.
Not all forms of magnesium are effective. Our magnesium is combined with natural amino acids to allow the magnesium to be absorbed by the nervous system.
Magnesium aspartate hydrochloride and magnesium taurate are the only active ingredients and each capsule or 1ml of liquid delivers 60mg of elemental magnesium in a form that is both highly absorbable and easily digestible - which also reduces the risk of tummy upset
Settlers Liquid contains magnesium aspartate-hydrochloride, a hi-tech form of magnesium.
Settlers Capsules use magnesium taurate, which is well proven in human medicine.
INGREDIENTS
This feature makes the magnesium in Settlers more assimilable in cells including those of the central nervous system. We use two different compounds: magnesium taurate in the capsules and magnesium aspartate in the liquid. They are both similarly effective but the latter has better solubility properties to allow a liquid version of Settlers. Both forms have numerous research and clinical findings to support their effectiveness and safety.
Settlers Capsules;
each capsule contains 500mg magnesium taurate with no other ingredient. The capsule shells are vegetable cellulose.
Settlers Liquid:
1ml liquid contains 500mg magnesium aspartate hydrochloride, purified water and potassium sorbate preservative. Potassium sorbate is a natural preservative found in fruit.
FEEDING
For the first three days give half the recommended daily amount to allow the dog’s system time to adjust and avoid ‘funny tummy’ troubles then increase to the whole amount advised.
If convenient split the daily ration and give morning and evening with food to keep magnesium levels topped up throughout the day. After this adjustment period it is safe to feed increased quantities when anticipating particularly stressful events such as moving to a new home, a stay in kennels, a new addition to the family, competition etc.
Some situations eg travelling, showing etc may necessitate giving settlers outside of normal mealtimes. This is OK.
Whether you use Settlers in liquid or capsule form, the decision will be influenced perhaps by how well your dog will accept a ‘pill’ but to make your life easier each bottle of the liquid comes fitted with an adaptor and a graduated syringe.
All of this information is simply intended as a starting point and eventually you may feel that your dog needs some adjustment to achieve optimum benefit.