Pointer Toastees Bacon & Cheese

A treat with a joint-support claim on the front doesn't always tell you the amount involved, and it's worth checking that before assuming a biscuit is doing real work for an ageing dog's joints. Pointer's Toastees Bacon & Cheese carries exactly that kind of claim, worth reading carefully.

The recipe is built from cereals, oils and fats, minerals including 2% calcium carbonate, meat and animal derivatives, and small named additions of milk and milk derivatives (1% cheese powder), glucosamine (0.07%) from molluscs and crustaceans, and chondroitin (0.07%) from fish derivatives, alongside a bacon flavouring at 0.005%.

• Cereals, oils and fats, meat and animal derivatives base
• Protein 10%, fat content 8%, crude ash 7%
• Calcium at 1%
• Glucosamine and chondroitin, each at 0.07%
• 10KG box

On the joint claim. Glucosamine and chondroitin are genuinely present here, but each at 0.07% — a very small trace amount rather than a therapeutic dose. Treat this as an ordinary treat biscuit with a minor joint-support addition, not as a joint supplement in its own right.

Who it's for: owners buying a large box of everyday reward biscuits, who like the idea of a small joint-support addition without expecting it to replace a proper supplement.