Popular Dog Food Diets Could Put Canines at Risk of Heart Disease

3/11/2019; 1 minutes

Looking for the best dog food for your puppy? UC Davis veterinarians led a team that has found a link between some popular grain-free, legume-rich dog diets and a type of nutritional deficiency and canine heart disease known as taurine-deficient dilated cardiomyopathy. The study was recently published in the journal PLOS ONE. (#34586)

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