It must not be heated and and must be refrigerated. If you use ground flax seed you need to use three times as much. Adjust the dose based on the weight of your pet. A giant dog needs 600mg CoQ-10 a day, in 6 doses, which is the human dose for treating cancer. The stuff mixed with oil in gel capsules is not as good.
Cats are so much different than dogs.
Based on the letters I have received, they seem to respond to essiac better than dogs. Another thing you might look into is IP6 and Inositol. Diet is very important, your pet should be eating food made from human grade ingredients. I no longer feed my dogs anything made with ingredients I would hesitate to eat myself, although for them raw may be better than cooked. If a web site does not say so, you can be pretty sure the food is not made with human grade ingredients.