Hill's j/d Joint Care Reduced Calorie - Prescription Diet - Canine

Hill's j/d - Joint Care Reduced Calorie - Prescription Diet - Canine

Hill's j/d Reduced Calorie dog food has a unique formula. The increased food mass ensures quick satiety, helping to curb hunger. The high content of omega-3 fatty acids helps to soothe inflamed tissue and relieve painful joints, and the high levels of EPA (a special omega-3 fatty acid from fish oil) maintains joint cartilage. Natural glucosamine and chondroitin provide the essential building blocks for healthy cartilage. Added L-carnitine also helps to maintain optimal body weight. Canine j/d improves quality of life by helping dogs run, play and get up much more easily after lying down.

Joint problems in dogs:

Joint problems are very common in dogs. The most common type is osteoarthritis, a degenerative condition in which the cartilage of a particular joint is affected. As many as 20% of dogs 1 year and older have osteoarthritis to some degree. The most common symptoms of joint disorders are: stiffness after activity, difficulty getting up and getting started again after a rest period (start lameness), reduced activity, lameness, swelling of the joint, painful to touch, restricted mobility of the affected joint, stretching and/or bending less, repeatedly licking the joint (can be a result of pain and swelling), loss of appetite, or changes in behaviour, especially irritability caused by the pain.

Other Hill's Prescription Diet products that may benefit your dog:

• Dogs who require joint support because they suffer from or are predisposed to obesity: Canine j/d
• Joint Support for small dogs up to 10 kg: Canine j/d mini

Composition

Broken rice, maize, linseed, pea bran meal, soybean meal, chicken (5 %) and turkey meal, maize gluten meal, protein hydrolysate, animal fat, cellulose, dried beet pulp, fish oil, minerals, vitamins, L-carnitine, pork cartilage (source of chondroitin sulfate), hydrolysed shellfish (source of glucosamine), trace elements and beta-carotene. With natural antioxidant (mixed tocopherols).

Analytical constituents

Protein 21.5 %, fat content 12.8 %, crude fibre 9.1 %, crude ash 4.6 %, omega-3 fatty acids 2.8 %, EPA 0.37 %, calcium 0.58 %, phosphorus 0.52 %, sodium 0.22 %, potassium 0.75 %, magnesium 0.15 %; per kg: vitamin A 7,880 IU, vitamin D3 720 IU, vitamin E 620 mg, vitamin C 120 mg, beta-carotene 2.5 mg, glucosamine 1,157 mg, chondroitin sulfate 804 mg, L-carnitine 348 mg.

Nutritional additives per kg

3b103 (iron) 75.9 mg, 3b202 (iodine) 1.9 mg, 3b405 (copper) 7.5 mg, 3b502 (manganese) 7.8 mg, 3b603 (zinc) 133 mg, 3b801 (selenium) 0.2 mg. With natural antioxidant.