Virbac HPM Dog Senior Medium & Large

As your dog ages, both their nutritional needs and activity levels change. Muscle mass decreases and the risk of weight gain increases. Virbac HPM Dog Senior Medium & Large is designed to support older dogs with a high protein content and low carbohydrate level.

Suitable for:
• Large breeds (> 25 kg) from 6 years old
• Medium breeds (11–25 kg) from 8 years old

Important benefits

• Weight Control / Moderate Calorie Level: Helps maintain a healthy body weight, preserve muscle mass and reduce fat storage.
• Preservation of muscle mass: High protein content supports muscles and counteracts muscle wasting.
• Excellent digestive tolerance: Promotes healthy intestinal flora, contributes to firm stools and reduces odor.
• Strengthens the immune system: Supports the dog's natural immune system.
• Maintains healthy skin and coat: Essential fatty acids promote healthy skin and a shiny coat.
• Low allergen content: Free from corn, wheat, gluten, soy, egg or fish – reducing the risk of food intolerance.*
• Preserves kidney function: Contributes to healthy kidneys.
• Healthy urinary tract: Helps maintain healthy urinary tract.

May contain traces of the above. Not suitable for allergic dogs.

Nutrition for carnivores

VETERINARY HPM® is designed to meet the nutritional needs of carnivores with a low carbohydrate and high protein content. This provides less starch and more animal protein, which better supports the dog's natural needs.

• 32% High in protein of which 88% animal protein
• 29% Low in carbohydrates

Healthy benefits

The special composition of high protein and low carbohydrates, combined with functional ingredients, provides several health benefits:

• Low allergen content
• Joint and muscle support
  
• Easily digestible
  
• Optimal body weight
  
• Healthy kidney function
  
• Strengthens the immune system
  
• Healthy urinary tract

Composition

Dehydrated pork and poultry protein, rice (min. 4%), broad bean pods, hydrolyzed pork and poultry protein, peas, crude fiber, animal fat, potato starch (min. 4%), minerals, linseed, beet pulp, fish oil, psyllium fiber (Plantago (L.) spp.), fructooligosaccharides, brewer's yeast, hydrolyzed crustaceans (source of chitosan), Lactobacillus acidophilus, chondroitin sulfate.

Veterinary HPM™ does not contain artificial color or flavor.

Analytical constituents (in feed)

• Water: 9%
  
• Protein: 32%
  
• Ratio of animal to vegetable protein: 84/16
  
• Fat: 14%
  
• Minerals: 6.5%
  
• Crude fiber: 9.5 %
  
• NFE: 29%
  
• Starch: 22%
  
• Calcium: 1.1%
  
• Phosphorus: 0.7%
  
• Ca/P ratio: 1.6 %
  
• Sodium: 0.4%
  
• Omega-6: 2.2%
  
• Omega-3: 0.9%
  
• ME* calculated: 327 kcal/100g

*Nitrogen-free extract
**Metabolizable energy

Vitamins

• Vitamin A: 11000 IU/kg
  
• Vitamin D3: 1100 IU/kg
  
• Vitamin E: 570 mg/kg
  
• Vitamin B1: 3.8 mg/kg
  
• Vitamin B2: 11 mg/kg
  
• Vitamin B3: 30mg/kg
  
• Vitamin B5: 26mg/kg
  
• Vitamin B6: 3mg/kg
  
• Vitamin B9: 0.48 mg/kg
  
• Vitamin B12: 0.062 mg/kg
  
• Choline: 740 mg/kg

Minerals

• Copper: 15 mg/kg
  
• Iron: 25 mg/kg
  
• Iodine: 1.1 mg/kg
  
• Taurine: 1500 mg/kg
  
• Zinc: 120 mg/kg

Functional ingredients

• Bentonite: 5 g/kg
  
• Heat-treated Lactobacilli: 7 mg/kg
  
• L-carnitine: 330 mg/kg
  
• Chondroitin sulfate: 430 mg/kg
  
• Chitosan: 430 mg/kg