The Eukanuba Low Residue dog food is a prescription diet because it is not meant to be a forever diet. It is designed to help with certain conditions under a veterinarians care/advice as are the Hills Prescription diets. It is designed to make digestion easier for dogs with a variety of digestive issues like d ogs recovering from parvo, dogs recovering from any type of intestinal sugerys (blockages etc) dogs with diarhea known cause or unknown causes. It is Eukanuba's version of Hill's Science diet ID formula. So if you have never had to use it that is great but as the saying goes don't knock it until you've tried it. Katie ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================