Choosing the right Vet’s Kitchen recipe for your dog

May 25th 2021

Knowing which Vet’s Kitchen recipe to choose for your dog needn’t be tricky. Our short guide below will help you navigate to the best Vet’s Kitchen diet based on your dog’s age, weight and overall health. We have a range of 1kg trial packs that make changing your dog’s food a walk in the park!

Lifestage

We have puppy, adult and senior diets to choose from. As a rough guide, dogs under 12 months should be on puppy food and dogs from 7 years onwards can go onto senior food. However there is no hard and fast rule on this. For more information on changing to senior food, make sure you check out out everything you need to know about changing food for senior dogs.

Shop puppy, adult and senior diets

Weight

Both our Senior & Healthy Weight recipes contain lower calories and fat levels than our standard adult foods. These diets will allow you to reduce the calories your dog is eating, without reducing the daily volume of food too much.

Use our calorie calculator to work out how much your dog should be eating, or contact our nutritionist for advice. Reduced fat diets are not just for overweight dogs, they can also be useful for hungry/greedy dogs that need to remain lean, for example dogs with joint issues.

Try our Healthy Weight Food

Food sensitivities – Protein

All our adult and senior foods are hypoallergenic and made with a single source of protein. This is ideal for sensitive dogs that have multiple food intolerances or allergies. For dogs that react to the more common protein sources found in pet food, we have a grain free diet using pork as a novel protein.

Don’t forget, if your dog is healthy they can still eat food for sensitive dogs if they like the taste!

Food sensitivities – Grain free

Vet’s Kitchen foods are all free from wheat. The range includes adult and senior recipes containing highly digestible brown rice, however for owners that would like to go one step further, we also have a selection of grain free adult and senior diets. Choose from ork or salmon for adult dogs or turkey for senior dogs.

Sensitive digestion

All of the Vet’s Kitchen range is hypoallergenic & contains highly digestible ingredients. However, our foods also have the addition of prebiotics and probiotics to help support healthy gut bacteria.

Shop our Sensitive Range here

Changing diets

If your dog is new to Vet’s Kitchen or you are trying a new recipe within our range, please introduce it slowly by gradually replacing the old diet over the course of ten days. If you feed too much too soon of any new food, your pet could suffer from stomach upset or other digestive problems.

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Support & Advice

If you are not sure which food might be best for your dog, or you would like advice on anything from feeding amounts to whether your dog’s toilet habits are normal, then please get in touch with our nutritionist via contact@vetskitchen.co.uk or 01793 887555

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