You may be surprised to learn that food intolerances are a common problem amongst pets.

Lower quality pet food, packed with artificial additives, chemicals and known hyper-sensitising ingredients, can often cause disturbances.

Feeding a higher quality hypoallergenic food can help to reduce symptoms.

Hypoallergenic

Hypoallergenic is a term that you may often see on labels and packaging, but what does it mean? In essence, it means the recipe helps to reduce intolerance and sensitivity symptoms, promoting everyday health and well-being as recommended by the Pet Food Manufacturers Association (PFMA).

Paws Pet Food recipes are often formulated to exclude ingredients that may cause intolerance, including grains (i.e. wheat and maize), beef, chicken, soya, or dairy. However, it is important to note that although these are able to help manage symptoms of intolerance, the recipes formulated are more accurately created to assist with food intolerances/sensitivities as opposed to allergic reactions and are not classed an allergenic pet food.

Hypoallergenic is defined as being relatively unlikely to cause a reaction. It’s important to note that every pet is individual, and not all pets will have a sensitivity to these ingredients.

Must a pet have sensitivity in order to purchase hypoallergenic food?

Most certainly not! Any pet can consume hypoallergenic food. Some people will choose to always feed this type of food because it contains reliable, good quality ingredients which are highly digestible and nutritious. Alongside this, they may already choose hypoallergenic food as a preventative measure to ensure their companions have a reduced risk of digestive upset (and less potential for having to clear up some poor ‘back end’ performance!).

Hypoallergenic pet foods have the potential to be great for all dogs!