Purina Pro Plan Calming Care for Dogs

I cannot get over how well Calming Care works. My Shih tzu has been on it for approximately 3 weeks. We live near a Navy base and the jets are literally flying over the top of our house. She was shaking all day long and I felt so bad for her. A prescription medicine did not help her. The jets have been flying all day and she is in her dog bed sleeping. She is also terrified of rain (thunder). Last storm she was anxious but was able to calm herself after the storm passed. Highly recommend this product!!

A veterinarian recommended Calming Care (packets of a pro-biotic) that you sprinkle over the food of an anxious, grieving or dog like mine, who was a traumatized rescue dog. Gracie had been dumped by a breeder in the low country of SC and had been on her own as a year old standard poodle puppy in the cold, harsh, wet weather of December & January before she was captured by animal control and then rescued by a poodle rescue group. I adopted her on 2/1/25. Apparently, Gracie had been through a lot and had PTSD which showed up in different ways. I sprinkle some of Calming Care over her food each day. It's not a sedative, but has a calming effect and takes the edge off. It's been a miracle for me as she acclimates to our home where we shower her with lots of love. I can't say enough about this subtle calming product. It is a superior, high quality product and I will recommend to everyone who's pets may be going through the loss of another pet or a newly adopted pet trying to settle in, etc. 5 stars!!!!

My six year old deaf, Dogo Argentino named Monkey, suffers from severe anxiety. Whenever we leave the house, he nearly has a panic attack until he finally calms down. He has super powers where he knows when we’re coming home 20 minutes before we’re coming home and it doesn’t matter if we come home at our normal time or any other time. He starts going psycho. Come dinner time he literally is spinning in circles anxiously awaiting his dinner. His poops have always been a little on the soft serve side. Since using this product after our vet recommended, I have noticed that his poops have become less soft, more normal and solid. While he still gets anxious, it doesn’t last as long. He still gets excited at dinner time. But one of the biggest things that I’ve noticed is, he’s always had super soft fur, and now his fur is even softer, as if that were possible, and he chews/nibbles on his paws significantly less. The only reason that I cannot give this a five star rating is because I buy this box every month for him and have been for about six months now. I have opened up fresh packets that were completely empty or a quarter to half empty. And at a cost of approximately a dollar a day per packet, it’s very disappointing. I have to order sooner and occasionally open a second package just to make sure he’s getting the correct dose. What would be amazing is to be able to get this in a jar with a measured scoop. And that way, since it would be done by weight, there’s no chance of a packet being empty.

Wow! Tried this with hope but not much actual expectation for my young Pomeranian who is highly anxious due to lack of any socialization until he was 8 months old. Had been giving him CBD oil and using various desensitization techniques to help him but with only minimal results. After a month on this powder relatives gathered at my house for Thanksgiving and I was really worried how my little guy would do. Previously visitors always had him barking, growling, trembling violently, and hiding, and he especially distrusted children. Imagine my shock and surprise when the visitors came and he tolerated them with only initial barking. He didn't try to hide away, he didn't growl, and he even let the grandkids pet him and pick him up. Everyone was astonished--me, most of all. I was literally joking, "Who is this canine and what did he do with my real dog?" Now, he still is a nervy dog and has other anxiety issues, but I'm so relieved we can have visitors without him freaking out. He's also a little calmer riding in the car, which has been another anxiety trigger. I will say the first few days of using Calming Care my dog had minor diarrhea and did vomit a small amount twice. I cut the dose in half and worked up to the full amount over the course of a week and had no side effects after that. I would like to know if I will need to keep him on this product indefinitely or not. There doesn't seem to be any information on long term usage. He's 18 months old now and has been using Calming Care for about 4 months.

My vet recommended we try this product for my dog who had digestive problems. We used it for a few days, one packet per day. By the 4th day, my dog stopped running and playing. She started falling off things. She fell off the chair trying to jump a few inches to my daughter's lap. The next day, she fell off the bed and then down the three stairs off the porch. That night, she was sitting on the shower chair while I was bathing her, and she toppled over, landing hard on her shoulder. During this time, her poops were abnormal and she didn't want to drink water. We immediately stopped giving her the Calming Care, and she was back to normal in a few days. Three weeks later, she's doing great! She has not fallen again, and she is back to playing.

At my vet's recommendation, we tried this product for 4 days, one packet per day. By the 4th dose, she started falling off things. She fell off the chair trying to jump a few inches to my sister's lap. The next day, she misjudged the distance to the edge of the bed and fell off. That same day, she fell down the three stairs off the porch. That night, she was sitting on the shower chair while I was bathing her, and she toppled over, landing hard on her shoulder. We stopped giving her the Calming Care, and she was back to normal in three days. During that time, her poops were abnormal and she didn't want to drink water. Three weeks later, she's doing great! She has no fallen again.

So far, Calming Care has worked to stop my rescue mutt Honey from guzzling her food, and she no longer eats her poo. She is much calmer and less reactive in the house. We still need to work on leash reactivity to anything new in the environment including unfamiliar cars, a garbage can in a different spot, etc. I’m expecting continued positive results.

If you don't want to give your dog anxiety medication this will help but be patient it may take one or more boxes of calming care to see positive results. It does work but is not a quick fix.