PET FOODS
CHOOSING A PET FOOD
With so many pet foods available in the supermarkets, pet shops and veterinary clinics, choosing the right food for you dog or cat can be confusing. Wilston Vet recommends feeding Hills Science Diet pet foods. Hills also have a range of Prescription Diets designed especially for your pet’s particular illness.
WHY DO WE RECOMMEND HILLS SCIENCE DIET?
Science Diet is a complete and balanced food, providing superior nutrition to help your pet stay healthy for longer, whatever their age or lifestyle. All Hills Science Diet products provide your pet with the optimal balance of vitamins and minerals for lifelong health.
It is important that you pet is fed the appropriate food for its life stage. Hills make it easy with food specifically formulated to meet the needs of your pet whatever age. They have a range of food from puppy and kitten to food for your senior pet. As these feeds are complete and balanced there is no need to add vitamin or mineral supplements to your pet’s diet. The food provides all the nutrients required by a dog or cat, in the appropriate quantities and proportions to maintain good health.
Buying a ready made food is also a great advantage to people with busy lifestyles, as there is no need to spend time in the kitchen preparing homemade food. Besides the convenience of feeding prepared pet food, the fact that it is also ‘complete and balanced’ saves dog and cat owners from worrying if their pet is getting all the necessary nutrients to maintain good health. Although it is easy to cook for your pet, it is hard to know if you are providing a complete and balanced diet.
RANGE OF DIETS
CANINE
- Puppy, Puppy Small Bites and Puppy large Breed
- Adult, Adult Small Bites and Adult Large Breed
- Canine Active, Light, Sensitive Stomach, Sensitive Stomach, Oral Care
- Mature (Senior), Mature Small bites and Mature Large Breed
FELINE
- Kitten
- Adult
- Feline Oral Care, Indoor, Hairball, Light, Sensitive Skin, Sensitive Stomach
- Mature (Senior)
Hills also produce a range of prescription diets specifically made for various conditions and illness’ your pet may have. Please consult your veterinarian regarding these particular foods as they need to be specifically recommended to you by a veterinarian or veterinary nurse. These diets include foods specifically formulated for diseases such as kidney disease, obesity, diabetes, arthritis, dental disease and urinary tract disease.
PREMIUM FOOD VS CHEAPER BRANDS
Buying a quality pet food has many benefits over the cheaper priced pet foods. Hills Science Diets contain only the highest quality ingredients, no artificial flavouring, colours or preservatives and use a fixed formulation, ensuring your pet receives the same ingredients each and every time. Hills uses high quality meat protein in its pet foods and contains highly digestible ingredients meaning that the food is easy for dogs and cats to digest, resulting in less stool output. Because the food is highly digestible it also means that it offers far more nutritional value than a bowl of ordinary pet food, so the cost of feeding your pet is less than you might think.
Other benefits include:
- Avoiding excess levels of fat and salt – this can lead to conditions such as high blood pressure and obesity.
- No genetically modified ingredients
- Superior antioxidant Formula – to promote a healthy immune system
- Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids – for a smooth and glossy coat
- Great taste – extensive taste test are carried out to ensure your dog or cat will love the taste
- Different foods for the appropriate life stage of your pet
Many of the supermarket brands use a plant based protein and contain artificial colours, flavourings and preservatives. To enhance palatability, extra salt and fat is also added to many supermarket foods. This can lead to conditions such as high blood pressure and obesity. Preservatives and colourings in pet foods can cause hyperactivity and food allergies in your pet. Using a plant protein as the main source of energy means your pet is fed a poorer quality protein and not as digestible as a meat protein. Therefore you will need to feed more of this food so your pet receives its daily energy requirements. What you will see is a lot more faecal volume being produced by your dog or cat. This also means that although a bag of food may appear cheaper initially, you actually need to feed a lot more than a higher quality diet, which means in the long run the overall cost is not as cheap as you would have thought.
At Wilston Vet we believe that good nutrition is the key to a happy and healthy pet. That’s why we recommend Hills Science Diet.
We are so confident that your pet will love Hills Science Diet that we support the 100% money back palatability gaurantee, so if your pet doesn't like it,please bring it back to us for a full refund.
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