There are several brands of food that are provided only by veterinary practices at the sort of prices that make you weep! Of course you want to ensure that your pet has the best and if your vet says that a certain food is necessary due to a particular condition that you pet is suffering from you are unlikley to want to go against that advice.

The Burns food was developed by a veterinary surgeon who is well versed in the requirements of pets with many conditions and no doubt you will be surprised to know that most of the "veterinary only" foods can actually be replaced by one of the Burns varieties.

Burns provide foods with "Low Protein", "Low Phosphorous", "Low Fat", "Low Sodium" and/or "High Fibre" which match most of the specialist foods available and they are free from artificial colours, flavourings, by-products of any description, hydrolysed proteins (actually pre-digested flavour enhancers!), wheat and soya too. There is a chart available from Burns which lists the alternatives to most of the Hills Science and Royal Canine special diet foods.

You can see the Burns alternatives by clicking HERE
The Natural Dog Food Co. foods are also suitable if your dog prefers the flavours.
If your dog likes fish then the Fish 4 Dogs range is another alternative but note that this is not a "Low Sodium" product
For underweight dogs the Applaws dry foods are great as this contains around 70% dry weight meat and as was proved with our own Merlin, who had a bad start to life, is great for building muscle.

If your dog is constantly itching, scratching, losing hair or has open sores then try the Burns food - we have many success stories including a dog with open sores and treatment by 3 different veterinarians over 3 months failed to cure but just 7 days on Burns Chicken & Rice did the trick!

It is remarkable how the use of natural high quality ingredients rather than chemically or mechanically processed by-products can solve a lot of problems so easily.