The first fully complete vegan dog food diet in the UK was a dermatology diet
Veterinary-based dermatology company Vetruus (now Nextmune) started selling Solo Vegetal towards the end of 2018. It was initially brought in as a diet for dermatologists to use in exclusion trials as all the other diets were still animal based and didn’t guarantee helping diagnose food allergy as 40% of dogs still react to hydrolysed animal protein diets.
As far as they saw it, it was the only vegetable based veterinary diet so they realised it was quite unique and may offer a useful alternative for skin cases.
The enormous popularity of Solo Vegetal has grown substantially over the last year, as owners concerned about sustainability, choose to feed their dogs solely with this food who are perfectly healthy and suffer from no skin allergies as the food is so palatable. There are now so many options for dogs with meat intolerances to choose a truly novel and balanced plant-based protein diet.
“A balanced plant-based diet is a good choice for a truly novel protein diet when food trialling dogs with potential cutaneous adverse food reactions. They are often more palatable than hydrolysed protein diets and dogs with an intolerance can be maintained on a complete diet indefinitely.”
– Veterinary Dermatology Specialist Dr Sue Paterson
BVA says it is possible to feed dogs plant-based
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Successful takeover of vegan dog food brand HOWND
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University of Liverpool Vegan Dog Food Study
Prof Alex German holds the position of Royal Canin Professor of Small Animal Medicine at the University of Liverpool
Using microbial protein for the very first time in dog treats!
This first-of-its-kind protein is derived from bacteria that have been consumed by humans for centuries in foods such as kimchi, kefir, and sauerkraut
The longest, most comprehensive peer-reviewed study so far!
Domestic dogs maintain positive clinical, nutritional, and haematological health outcomes when fed a commercial plant-based diet for a year. Peer reviewed and published in PLOS ONE
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The latest paper from April 2024 makes an astounding 85 papers against the use of raw feeding in our dogs
UK’s first meat cultivated cat food to launch!
The world’s first cans of cat food made with cultivated chicken to be sold in 2024 at Pets At Home!
Plant Ingredients in Dog Food
An enormously positive article about the use of plant-based proteins in pet food written by PhD Veterinary Scientist Jelena Suran in February 2024
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