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

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

Analytical constituents

Moisture 8%, crude protein 21.5%, crude fat 12.8%, carbohydrates (NFE) 43.9%, crude fibre 9.1%, crude ash 4.6%, calcium 0.58%, phosphorus 0.52%, potassium 0.75%, sodium 0.22%, magnesium 0.146%, taurine 0.10%, vitamin A 12,096 IU/kg, vitamin C 128 ppm, vitamin D 914 IU/kg, vitamin E 621 IU/kg, DHA 0.246%, EPA 0.368%, omega-3 fatty acids 2.85%, omega-6 fatty acids 2.02%, beta-carotene 3.61 ppm, L-carnitine 347.8 ppm, glucosamine 1,157 ppm, chondroitin sulphate 804 ppm.