Hill's Prescription Diet Canine Metabolic Weight Management with Chicken complete dry dog food is part of the Hill's range of clinically proven diets designed to suit your dog's specific nutritional needs and provide additional dietary support. This balanced kibble is ideal for obese dogs and adult dogs with a tendency to become overweight. Without compromising on flavour, this dietetic dry dog food can help your dog to reach and then maintain a healthy weight.
Hill's Prescription Diet Canine Metabolic Weight Management with Chicken has been developed by nutritionists and veterinarians to support your dog's health. It features an innovative recipe that combines fibre and antioxidants to promote satiety and help to improve your dog's immune system.
Hill's™ Prescription Diet™ has a wide selection of clinically proven nutritional products which meet your pet's specific dietary needs. Hill's Evidence-Based Clinical Nutrition™ uses the most up-to-date scientific research evidence combined with clinical expertise to develop a range of diets which help alleviate your pet’s health issues.
Hill's Prescription Diet Canine Metabolic Weight Management with Chicken Dry Dog Food:
- Developed by vets and nutritionists: Helps to burn excess fat
- Important antioxidants: Help to keep your dog healthy
- No need for precise portioning: Your dog will enjoy its food, and feel full and satisfied
- Helps to avoid weight gain after a weight loss programme
Please consult your vet for further information and specific treatment options for your pet.
Wheat, chicken- (8%) and turkey meal, maize gluten meal, pea bran meal, maize, dried tomato pomace, protein hydrolysate, cellulose, linseeds, animal fats, dried citrus fruit pulp, coconut oil, minerals, dried carrots, vitamins, trace elements, beta-carotene.
With natural antioxidants [mixed tocopherols].
Additives per kg:
Nutritional additives:
Vitamin A (10,542 IU), vitamin D3 (734 IU), vitamin E (1050mg), vitamin C (122mg), beta-carotene (2mg), iron (77.4mg), iodine (1.9mg), copper (7.6mg), manganese (117mg), zinc (136mg), selenium (0.2mg).
With natural antioxidants.
Analytical constituents
| protein | 25.4 % |
| fat | 11.2 % |
| fibre | 13.0 % |
| ash | 5.6 % |
| calcium | 0.93 % |
| phosphorus | 0.68 % |
| magnesium | 0.13 % |
| potassium | 0.79 % |
| sodium | 0.27 % |
| calories that can be burned | 3110.0 kcal |
Hill's Prescription Diet Canine Metabolic Weight Management is a complete dry dog food.
Daily feeding amounts:
Please note that these are guidelines only. Actual feeding amounts depend on your pet's age, breed, activity levels and other circumstances. Monitor your pet's weight and adjust feeding amounts as required.
Weight loss:
Determine the amount to feed your dog based on the target weight, not the current weight.
Weight maintenance:
Weigh your dog regularly as part of its weight maintenance programme and adjust the feeding amounts accordingly.
When you feed your dog Hills Prescription Diet Canine for the first time mix it with your dog's old food. Mix increasing amounts of the new food with decreasing amounts of the old food over a 7 day period until you are only feeding Metabolic to your dog.
Fresh water should be provided at all times.
| Dog's weight | Weight loss / g per day | Weight control / g per day |
| 2.5kg | 45 | 70 |
| 5kg | 75 | 120 |
| 10kg | 125 | 200 |
| 20kg | 210 | 340 |
| 30kg | 285 | 460 |
| 40kg | 355 | 570 |
| 50 kg | 8 per kg | 12 per kg |