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Dog Hair Analysis

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Elemental Hair Analysis for dogs provides a detailed insight into your pet’s mineral status, heavy metal exposure, and metabolic balance. This non-invasive test helps assess adrenal and thyroid function, digestion, joints, coat quality, behaviour, and overall vitality. Importantly, it also identifies mineral imbalances that may impact fertility, pregnancy outcomes, and litter size, offering valuable guidance for breeders. By understanding your dog’s unique mineral profile, we can support improved nutrition, performance, and long-term wellbeing. The reports are thorough with detailed analysis, system-specific breakdowns, and practical guidance — see the sample provided for a full example.

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Dog Hair Testing – Comprehensive Elemental Hair Analysis

Our Dog Elemental Hair Analysis screens for 24 elements, including essential minerals, trace elements, and toxic heavy metals. Using a small, non-invasive hair sample, the test provides a complete biochemical profile of your dog, covering:

  • Mineral ratios and balance
  • Metabolic type and energy efficiency
  • Adrenal and thyroid glandular activity
  • Immune and digestive system health
  • Coat, skin, joints, and skeletal integrity
  • Behaviour, learning, and temperament
  • Fertility, pregnancy, and litter size
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Understanding your dog's biochemistry

The report is highly comprehensive (around 20–25 pages) and not only shows mineral and toxin levels but explains their impact on your dog’s health and wellbeing, with easy-to-read graphs and clear commentary. This makes it a powerful tool for pet owners, trainers, and breeders alike.

Toxic elements tested for include: aluminium, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, barium, vanadium, and nickel. These heavy metals can interfere with biological functions, affect fertility, and compromise long-term health.

Beneficial minerals tested for include: calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sulphur, sodium, potassium, zinc, copper, iron, manganese, selenium, cobalt, chromium, and silicon. These are critical for bone and joint health, coat quality, muscular activity, endocrine function, reproduction, and overall vitality.

Additional trace elements such as lithium, germanium, and strontium are also measured to provide a full picture of your dog’s mineral status.

Understanding your dog’s biochemistry helps tailor nutrition, guide safe supplementation, and avoid diet-induced imbalances. For breeders, Elemental Hair Analysis is invaluable in identifying deficiencies or toxins that may affect pregnancy outcomes or be passed from parent to puppy. Reducing toxic load supports safer pregnancies and healthier litters.

After testing, you’ll receive your full results by email as a PDF report. Please see the sample report provided to appreciate the depth of information included.

Don't forget to download this PDF to view the sample hair analysis report for dogs.

Dog Hair Testing – Comprehensive Elemental Hair Analysis

After the test is complete, the results will be returned to you via email as an attached .pdf, as above. If you wish to receive a printed copy, please contact us.

Toxic elements tested for

Here's the toxic elements hair analysis tests for,
Column one shows the element's scientific name,
the second column tells you the elements periodic symbol.
Element Name Element Symbol
Mercury Hg
Beryllium Be
Uranium U
Cadmium Cd
Aluminium Al
Arsenic As
Lead Pb

Elements listed above are toxic these "heavy metals" can interfere with a dog's normal biological processes and biochemical functions. Because they are present in the environment, they are present in all biological systems.

They are poisonous to dog's, ideally they should not be present in their bodies in any quantity as they are injurious to health, excretion of them if found is advised to avoid bioaccumulation, either by detoxing or through a change of diet or vitamins and minerals supplementation.

Beneficial minerals tested for

Here's the beneficial minerals hair analysis tests for,
Column one shows the mineral element's scientific name,
the second column tells you the elements periodic symbol.
Element Name Element Symbol
Calcium Ca
Phosphorus P
Selenium Se
Sulphur S
Magnesium Mg
Iron Fe
Boron B
Potassium K
Sodium Na
Manganese Mn
Cobalt Co
Copper Cu
Chromium Cr
Molybdenum Mo
Zinc Zn

Elements listed above are required by the dogs to reach optimum performance levels; they have been widely studied and are known to essential for many biological functions within dogs.

They play a part in many functions including the endocrine system, muscular activity, maintaining the integrity of the skeleton and joints, reproduction and overall development. They must be replenished through foods or vitamins and minerals supplementation.

Additional elements tested for

Here's the additional elements hair analysis tests for,
Column one shows the element's scientific name,
the second column tells you the elements periodic symbol.
Element Name Element Symbol
Germanium Ge
Lithium Li
Vanadium V
Tungsten W
Barium Be
Nickel Ni
Strontium Sr
Zirconium Zr
Platinum Pt
Tin Sn

Additional elements listed above are thought to be of benefit to canine health, research is ongoing as to the correct amounts required and their potential benefits, they are obtained either through foods or vitamins and minerals supplementation.