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.

Composition

Hill's j/d Joint Care Reduced Calorie - Dry Food

Composition: Maize, brewers' rice, flaxseed, pea bran meal, soybean meal, chicken (13%) and turkey meal, maize gluten meal, digest, cellulose, animal fat, dried beet pulp, fish oil, minerals, L-carnitine, vitamins, pork cartilage (source of Chondroitin sulfate), crustacean shell hydrolysate (source of Glucosamine), trace elements and beta-carotene. With a natural antioxidant (mixed tocopherols).

Nutritional contents: Protein: 21.4 %, Fat: 13.1 %, Carbohydrate (NFE): 44.0 %, Crude fibre: 8.9 %, Crude Ash: 4.6 %, Calcium: 0.61 %, Phospohorus: 0.51 %, Potassium: 0.74 %, Sodium: 0.23 %, Magnesium: 0.146 %, Taurine: 0.10 %, Vitamin A: 9578 IU/kg, Vitamin C: 112 ppm, Vitamin D: 739 IU/kg, Vitamin E: 663 IU/kg, EPA: 0.368 %, Omega-3-fatty acids: 3.22 %, Omega-6-fatty acids: 2.12 %, Beta-carotene: 2.91 ppm, L-carnitine: 313.9 ppm

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