VetriScience Composure Behavioral Health Bite-Sized Dog Chews

One of my dogs has considerable separation anxiety when I leave for work, to the point of escaping his crate and then destroying things around the house. I had originally purchased these chews for my other dog, but decided to try them on my escape artist. He is a 50lb pit bull mix and I give him 2 chews about 30 minutes before I leave for work. I have a home surveillance camera so I’m able to see how he settles down. He is nicely chilled out, just sitting or laying down, but still cries some. This is compared to anxious pacing, pawing and biting at the bars of his crate, and sometimes trying to tip the crate over. It’s not the perfect scenario, but it is greatly improved and the stress level One of my dogs has considerable separation anxiety when I leave for work, to the point of escaping his crate and then destroying things around the house. I had originally purchased these chews for my other dog, but decided to try them on my escape artist. He is a 50lb pit bull mix and I give him 2 chews about 30 minutes before I leave for work. I have a home surveillance camera so I’m able to see how he settles down. He is nicely chilled out, just sitting or laying down, but still cries some. This is compared to anxious pacing, pawing and biting at the bars of his crate, and sometimes trying to tip the crate over. It’s not the perfect scenario, but it is greatly improved and the stress level is so much lower. My other dog has anxiety in the car. She gets in the car just fine every time, but when the car starts moving and especially goes faster, she paces and whines/yells. I got these chews for her, but have only experimented once on a one hour road trip. She is a 65lb Rottweiler/Staffordshire Terrier mix, and I started by giving her 2 chews about 45 minutes before we left. I noticed no change in her behavior, so I will continue to up the number of chews until we can hopefully get an improvement. I think the success of these chews depends on the behavior you’re trying to avoid and the size of the dog, so you just need to find the right balance. I feel confident these chews will work for my Rottie mix too, once we find the magical number of treats to give. Also worth noting, the price is quite reasonable per chew for relieving your baby of their stress! … more

My dog has grown to not like noise or when someone is passing by the front door. Friends and co-workers rave about this product so we wanted to try it I hopes it would calm him. I’m pretty sure it’s causing an opposite effect. He’s now absolutely terrified of thunder and whines the entire time (never has done this before even after the noises spooking him). Hasn’t stopped barking and 4th of July weekend was quite frankly, a nightmare. I feel like I’ve wasted my money on this product and will be canceling my auto ship :(

I bought this for my two dogs prior to 4th of July. My Vet had recommended Composure Pro, but you didn't have that, so I purchased this. My older dog is terrified of fireworks, and the younger dog is also scared. I gave them each 1 chew initially, then a second one as the noise got worse. Initially, they seemed calmer, but as the night wore on, it didn't seem to do any good at all. I will look for the Composure Pro somewhere else.

Whenever there is a thunderstorm, I give my dog 1 chewy treat and it calms her down. If she still has anxiety as the hours go on, I will give her another treat. She is 65 lbs. I mix it with peanut butter because it covers the scent of the treat. She won't think it's a medicinal pill.

I have three chihuahua's and these work on all three but in different doses, one only needs a half and she's calm, a whole one and she's going to sleep, another one needs a whole one to mellow out. And the third one doesn't need anything, nothing bothers him, I did give him one just to see if would make him chill at all but it didn't do anything so just like people everyone responds differently to different drugs.

used it when fireworks days are right around the corner.. i would suggest to start giving it to your dogs daily weeks before holiday fireworks begins. i find it helpful when you do, rather just giving it on the day of the holiday. it doesnt takes the anxiety away BUT shes not as scared or anxious.

I have a year old puppy that has excellent hearing and seems hypervigilant when he hears thunder or fireworks. I've tried a couple of these and they seemed to calm him down a bit. I had a few old ones in the cupboard from my dogs that passed away. So hopefully the fresh ones will work even better. it's hard for me to get used to having a dog that can hear again!

These are not hardcore anxiety pills so you cannot expect those results. They also are NOT the same formula as Composure Pro chews that your vet has. The veterinary formula is stronger and contains Tryptophan, so if you can get it through them it will provide better results. However, I have still seen great improvement with my little anxious dog using these. It works best when given once daily so it has a chance to build up in their system after a few weeks, but then give an extra one 30 minutes before a stressful event and it will help mellow them out. Definitely recommend, just give them time to work.

Our dog Tally is very distressed by loud noises so this year’s prolonged season of fireworks has been hard on all of us. Composure has solved the problem. We give her one after dinner and she remains calm throughout the myriad explosions.

So have been giving 2 for my 70lb dog in the morning. I see absolutely no difference. Still super high strung, nervous, pants and cries if he is on the other side of a door from me. He is impacting my other dog with his nervousness while walking him. We have a calm Cane Corso but he reacts as part of his breed only due to the other one being so nuts with growling and hair standing etc when other dogs are close. Tried Prozac and no way! Barely ate for 2 weeks.