Choosing the right food for your dog can feel like a minefield. You’re faced with endless opinions about ingredients, feeding styles, grain-free diets, dry and wet food, often with strong views attached to each approach. But good nutrition actually comes down to feeding a diet that
suits the dog in front of you; one that supports their health and fits comfortably into everyday life.
Forthglade’s wet food range has been designed to give you different feeding options depending on your dog’s needs, preferences and lifestyle, whilst keeping the focus on natural ingredients and balanced nutrition.
Forthglade’s wet food recipes use high-quality animal protein sources to help support everyday health and wellbeing. Protein provides the building blocks the body uses every day. Muscles, skin, the immune system, hormones and many other tissues rely on a regular supply of amino acids from dietary protein. With a range of high-quality protein sources and recipe styles available, you can choose those that best support your dog’s health, needs and preferences.
One of the main differences between wet and dry food is moisture content. Wet food contains more water, which contributes to a dog’s overall fluid intake throughout the day. Hydration plays an important role in many functions within the body, including digestion, temperature regulation and normal stool formation. Some dogs naturally drink less than others, so moisture from food can help support hydration alongside access to fresh water.
Perhaps the most common reason people choose wet food is that dogs simply love eating it.
Wet food is designed to be rewarding, as it is highly palatable, with smell, taste and texture all helping drive appetite and feeding motivation. For many dogs, wet food creates more enthusiasm around mealtimes, particularly for those that are fussy, easily bored with meals, or reluctant to eat dry food alone. For dogs experiencing age-related changes in appetite, wet food can also help encourage more consistent eating and maintain nutritional intake.
Its softer texture can be particularly helpful for senior dogs, smaller breeds and dogs with dental sensitivity, as wet food is often more comfortable to chew.
Wet food is also incredibly versatile. It can be fed on its own, used as a topper alongside dry food or mixed into enrichment toys. Alongside making mealtimes more enjoyable and flexible, wet food also provides important nutritional support through high-quality protein, digestible carbohydrates and carefully selected ingredients.
Grain-free recipes can be a useful option for dogs that are working through an elimination diet or have identified sensitivities to grains. Using ingredients such as sweet potato and butternut squash alongside high-quality, single-source protein, these recipes provide alternative carbohydrate sources alongside naturally occurring fibre, helping support enjoyable mealtimes, digestive comfort and everyday nutrition.
Forthglade’s wholegrain recipes combine high quality, single-source protein with brown rice, which provides an easy-to-digest source of carbohydrate alongside naturally occurring fibre, without overwhelming the recipe.
Carbohydrates help provide steady energy, whilst fibre helps support healthy digestion and stool quality. For active dogs in particular, carbohydrates can provide a useful energy source alongside protein and fats. Endurance-type dogs, such as sled dogs, are particularly efficient at using fat as fuel, whereas faster, sprint-based breeds like whippets and greyhounds often utilise carbohydrates more effectively during high-intensity exercise.
Recipes like the Just range keep mealtimes straightforward by using a single source of animal protein with added minerals. This can be especially helpful when working through an elimination diet, or if you already know your dog has a sensitivity to a particular ingredient or protein type. These recipes make it much easier to keep track of exactly what your dog is eating.
The best way to understand whether a recipe suits your dog is to feed it consistently and monitor how they respond. Keep an eye on their digestion, stool quality, energy levels, appetite and overall wellbeing. Comfortable digestion, good stool consistency and enthusiasm at mealtimes are all useful signs that a recipe is working well for your dog.Forthglade’s range of wet food recipes gives you the flexibility to choose the recipes that best suit your dog’s needs and preferences. Whether you have a dog with sensitivities, a fussy eater, a golden oldie, or simply a dog that enjoys wet food, the recipes have been carefully created to provide balanced nutrition, using high-quality protein, digestible carbohydrates and thoughtfully selected ingredients that are clearly labelled; giving your dog everything they need in a way they can enjoy.
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