senior dog food - Pet Forums Community
by lozza84
Dehydrated poultry meat, maize, rice, wheat flour, animal fats, maize flour, wheat, hydrolysed animal proteins, beet pulp, fish oil, vegetable oils (soya and borage), yeasts, fructo-oligo-saccharides, minerals, sodium phosphate, yeast extract (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), egg powder, grape extracts (source of polyphenols), green tea extracts (source of polyphenols). Chicken Meal* (min 23%), Whole Grain Rice (min 23%), Whole Grain Maize, Dried Brewers Yeast, Beet Pulp, Chicken Fat*, Fresh Chicken (min 5%), Egg Powder, Fish Meal*, Linseed, Fish Oil*, Minerals, Vitamins, Nucleotides, Prebiotic FOS, Prebiotic MOS, Cranberry Extract, Chondroitin Sulphate, Glucosamine Sulphate, MSM, Yucca Extract, L- Carnitine. * Preserved with mixed tocopherols and rosemary extract. To be honest most senior food isn't a lot (if any) different to ordinary food. The idea of senior food was that it had less calories and protein than normal food, as an older dog didn't need so much of either (on the assumption that it is less active). Unfortunately most of the run of the mill brands that you buy in the supermarket (you've named one in your post) have so little protein/meat (the minimum legal requirement) that they're perfectly okay from a protein/meat content for older dogs anyway. As far as the dog's coat goes, that is probably down to the quality of the ingredients in standard dog food. Are we talking greasy matted coat that smells doggy? If so, better quality food will stop the doggy smell, the greasyness and the matting and you will end up with a dog that you can pet/smooth and don't need to wash your hands immediately afterwards to get rid of the greasy feeling.
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