Calcium is a vital nutrient for growth and sustained pet health. It is a principal structural component of bone and teeth, facilitates blood clotting binding-proteins, serves as a key conductor of nerve signals, initiates muscle contractions, activates select physiological enzymes and buffers pH changes.
Because of these critical roles, it is important that the diet contain sufficient amounts of calcium. However, the calcium content of common ingredients used in pet diets (outside of incidental bone) is often inadequate. This makes supplementation necessary. The ingredient most often used to fill the gap is calcium carbonate.
