It starts with a good meal

Avery easy way to get gundog owners — in fact, any dog owner — wound up is to start a discussion on what they feed their four-legged friend. I once met a grand old lady in Washington DC who told me she generally fed her labrador lobster tail, as it did wonders for his coat, but generally, topics of debate revolve around dry food versus wet food and raw food versus cooked. Inevitably different manufacturers, costs and how often you should feed your dog are also much-debated topics.

There are a few reasons why such talking points are so lively, but I suspect, at the heart of it, it’s because we all want the very best for our dogs. It used to be that dogs were simply