Duck-Free Dog Foods

Duck allergy is rare, and the dogs that need this list usually earned it the slow way: duck was their novel protein once, it became the everyday diet, and years of exposure did what years of exposure do. A dog can outgrow its escape hatch.

Duck's label footprint is mercifully small compared to the big proteins: duck, duck meal, duck fat and duck liver cover nearly all of it, and every food below is screened for the set. The harder question is what to switch TO, because a dog that sensitized to one novel protein needs another one it has truly never eaten, and duck is poultry, so chicken and turkey deserve suspicion on the way out.

Our duck allergy guide covers how novelty wears off; our trial-diet list is the place to pick the next protein deliberately.