Burns Adult/Senior Sensitive Duck and Brown Rice

A dog that scratches or has loose stools after almost every meal is not usually reacting to food in general - it is reacting to one or two proteins it has already eaten hundreds of times, most often chicken or beef, because those are what most mainstream diets are built on. The standard next step is not a "better" food, it is a genuinely different one: a protein the dog has no history with.

Burns build this recipe around duck as the only animal protein, so there is nothing else in the bowl for a food-sensitive dog to react to instead. Brown rice supplies most of the carbohydrate, completed with oats, peas, duck fat and a small amount of seaweed for minerals. It is a complete food, formulated to meet a dog's full nutritional needs on its own rather than needing to be topped up with anything else.

• Complete food for adult and senior dogs, built around a single animal protein
• Composition: Brown Rice 64%, Dried Duck 22%, Oats, Peas, Duck Fat, Sunflower Oil, Seaweed 0.5%, Minerals
• Protein 20%, Fat 8%, Fibre 2%, Ash 6.5%
• Calcium 1.2%, Phosphorus 0.85%, Sodium 0.18%
• Omega-6 1.7%, Omega-3 0.2%
• 12KG bag

On the word "hypoallergenic". Burns describe this recipe as hypoallergenic because it is built around one protein most dogs have not already reacted to, not because it is a guaranteed fix - a genuine intolerance can still develop to any protein, duck included, given enough exposure. If a vet has diagnosed a food allergy rather than simply suggested trying a novel protein, the diagnosis and the elimination process it involves should be led by them, not by the packaging.

Who it's for: adult and senior dogs already showing signs of a food sensitivity - itching, ear trouble, loose stools - where a process of elimination has pointed at diet, and duck is not a protein the dog has already been fed heavily.