Originally Posted by lady_r0gue

Not trying to argue with you Nellie as I agree with most of your sentiments - but I have been trying to find wheat free dry food for my dog (he currently has tinned food or raw for breakfast and measured dry food throughout the day) and have found it nigh on impossible to source dry food from supermarkets without wheat! Literally NONE of the dry foods on sale in Morrisons were without wheat. I was particularly disappointed with the Hi-Life (moist) dry food for dogs - having trusted the brand to a certain extent for my cats, and being in a rush I quickly grabbed a packet and was disappointed to discover that it not only has wheat as the second ingredient but also contains GM Soya! I fed him it anyway and thought his coat looked awful and his poos were enormous!
I haven't been told that my dog is allergic to wheat but I decided to cut it out to see whether the gluten free diet improved his all-over health - and it has paid dividends. Since switching to Burns Alert (which I think is extremely reasonable when buying the 15kg bag for about £35 incl delivery - it's VAT free as it's technically for working dogs - plus I need to feed him 40g less per day than of other brands) I have found that his poos are literally half the size (great considering my dog poo bags used to be overflowing and I usually needed two!). It's suitable for seniors and low in fat which was a requirement, his coat is gorgeous and he has certainly lost the excess weight and is looking like my slinky dog again. In addition to the obvious (almost instantaneous) improvement to my dog's health I also like the fact that it's made in the UK and is aproved by PETA.
Sorry to keep on raving about it; (I don't work for Burns I promise) it's just that this is a mammoth thread so thought I'd pipe up again