Grain free dog food has been one of the most aggressively marketed categories in the premium pet food market for over a decade. The marketing premise is simple: dogs evolved from wolves, wolves do not eat grains, therefore grains are unnatural and potentially harmful to dogs. The reality is more complicated, more interesting, and in some respects more concerning for the grain-free category than...

Dog food labels in the UAE carry more useful information than most owners extract from them - and also contain some terminology that is genuinely misleading if you do not know what you are looking for. The difference between a dog food that is genuinely nutritionally complete and one that looks complete on the packaging but is not becomes clear when you know how...

Dog food allergies in the UAE are more common than most pet owners realize, and the most common allergens are the ingredients that appear in almost every mainstream dog food on the market. Beef, chicken, dairy, eggs, and wheat are the top five food allergens for dogs globally - and they are also the five most prevalent ingredients in mass-market dog food. If your...

What Do You Do If Your Dog Refuses to Eat Vegan Dog Food? Most dogs refuse new food because of the sudden change rather than an actual rejection of the ingredients. A slow transition - mixing a small amount of the new food with the old food and increasing the ratio over 7 to 14 days - resolves the issue in most cases. V-Planet...