Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Weight Management Dog Dry Food with Chicken

Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Dog Food with Chicken is a complete dietetic pet food for reduction of excessive body weight and maintenance of healthy weight in adult dogs. This pet food has low energy density. Even a little extra weight can impact the pet's quality of life and relationship with family, as the extra weight can reduce play time, impact mobility and affect the lifelong general health of your dog. Maintaining ideal weight can help impact life expectancy by reducing risk of weight-related conditions. Hill's nutritionists and veterinarians developed Prescription Diet Metabolic clinical nutrition specially formulated to help dogs lose weight and keep the lost weight off. This food naturally works with your dog's unique energy use for easy and effective weight loss, stimulates your dog's natural ability to burn fat and provides energy for active play. Its unique fibre blend helps keep dogs feeling full and satisfied. In fact, 96% of dogs lost weight at home in 2 months. This dry food with chicken has an irresistible taste that your dog will love.

Note: Veterinary diet, use on your veterinarian's advice. Transition gradually over 7 days.

Benefits

• Natural weight loss: Works with your dog's unique energy use; 96% of dogs lost weight at home in 2 months.
• Fat burning: Supports your dog's natural ability to burn fat.
• Satiety: Unique blend of fibre helps keep dogs feeling full and satisfied.
• Easy weight loss: Dogs lose weight without excessively reducing portion sizes.
• Keeps it off: Helps keep lost weight off, provides energy for active play and can be used long-term.
• S+OXSHIELD: Formulated to promote a urinary environment that reduces the risk of developing struvite and calcium oxalate crystals.
• Made in the EU.

How to use

• Feed only this food. Daily amount by ideal weight (weight loss / weight management):
• 2.5 kg → 45 / 65 g, 5 kg → 75 / 105 g.
• 7.5 kg → 100 / 145 g, 10 kg → 125 / 180 g.
• 20 kg → 215 / 300 g, 30 kg → 290 / 405 g.
• 40 kg → 360 / 505 g, 50 kg and over → 8 / 11 g per kg.
• For weight loss, base the amount on target weight rather than current weight and do not exceed the recommended intake. For maintenance, monitor your dog's weight and increase amounts accordingly.
• Time of use: until target body weight is achieved and after, if required to maintain it.
• Dry and canned formulas can be mixed or fed concurrently.
• Transition: mix increasing amounts of the new food with decreasing amounts of the old food over 7 days.
• Fresh water should be available at all times.

Composition

Cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, meat and animal derivatives (chicken 8%), vegetable protein extracts, vegetables, oils and fats, seeds, minerals.

Analytical constituents

• Protein: 26.6%
• Fat content: 10.7%
• Crude fibre: 12.9%
• Crude ash: 5.3%
• Calcium: 0.80%, phosphorus: 0.62%, sodium: 0.33%, potassium: 0.77%, magnesium: 0.13%
• Per kg: vitamin A 9,370 IU, vitamin D3 674 IU, vitamin E 1,059 mg, vitamin C 145 mg, beta-carotene 1.5 mg
• Metabolisable energy: 3,101 kcal/kg

Nutritional additives (per kg)

Iron 77.3 mg, iodine 1.9 mg, copper 7.6 mg, manganese 83.0 mg, zinc 135 mg, selenium 0.2 mg. With natural antioxidant.

Available sizes: 4 kg · 12 kg