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Specific CJD Joint Support review

We don't put a score on this food. It is a veterinary diet, formulated for a diagnosed condition and meant to be fed on a vet's advice. Your vet has seen your dog and we have not, so a number from us could only pull you towards their advice or away from it, and neither of those is ours to do. What follows is what the label declares, what the analysis works out at, and where to buy it, with no judgement attached to any of it.

Specific lists this one in its CJD Joint Support range as a fish based dry diet for joint management, written around hydrolysed collagen and chondroitin for dogs whose vet is treating stiff or arthritic joints.

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A fish-based dry diet from Specific's CJD Joint Support range, written around hydrolysed collagen and chondroitin for dogs whose vet is treating stiff or arthritic joints. Cellulose sits high on the list and fibre is declared at 7.0%, so it reads as a food built to hold a joint patient's weight as much as to feed the joint. We do not score veterinary diets; this page sets out the label and leaves the judgement to your vet.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose vet is managing stiff or arthritic joints
A joint patient who needs weight kept in check, with plenty of fibre and L-carnitine on the label
Owners who like the joint entries named: PETAGILE collagen, chondroitin sulphate, borage oil, krill

Worth watching

Wheat first on the list. If your dog has reacted to wheat before, raise it with your vet
No dose printed for any of the joint ingredients

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The feeding table runs from 60 grams a day at 2.5kg to 800 grams at 80kg, but on a prescribed diet your vet's number is the one that counts.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

What's in it

WheatFirst ingredient, and one of the cereals owners most often end up excluding.
Fish mealThe only meat meal on the label.
Rice
Cellulose powder, beet pulpFibre, close to the top of the list.
Fish oilMarine oil, with the krill further down.
Egg powder, animal protein hydrolysateThe hydrolysate names no species.
PETAGILE (hydrolysed collagen)Specific's name for its collagen. No level printed.
Vitamins and trace elements, Antarctic krill, minerals, yeast, psyllium husk
Chondroitin sulphate, borage oilBorage oil brings gamma linolenic acid. Neither has a dose on the label.
L-carnitine, rosemary extract

Vitamins and trace elements, some of them chelated, are listed inline; no separate additives panel is published.

Crude fibre is declared at 7.0%, a lot for a kibble.

Named ingredients

Wheat, fish meal, rice, cellulose powder, fish oil, beet pulp, egg powder, animal protein hydrolysate, PETAGILE® (hydrolysed collagen), vitamins and trace elements (including chelated trace elements), Antarctic krill, minerals, yeast (including source of ß-1.3/1.6-glucans), psyllium husk, chondroitin sulphate, borage oil, L-carnitine, rosemary extract. With natural antioxidants (tocopherols and vitamin C).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

335.1 kcal/100g

Protein

21.4%

Fat

10.6%

Fibre

Moisture

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

23.4%

Fat

11.6%

Fibre

7.7%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

30.4%

Carbs

59.4%

Oils

3.5%

Other

6.7%

Pricing & size