09/17/2026
🫀 A Note About Nutrition & Heart Health
We want to share an important nutritional recommendation with our Boston Terrier families. While dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is often associated with certain larger breeds, diet-associated DCM has been reported in dogs of many different breeds and sizes, including Boston Terriers.
For this reason, we strongly recommend that our puppies and adult dogs are not fed grain-free diets or diets containing large amounts of peas, lentils, chickpeas, beans, pea protein, or other pulses.
Current veterinary research suggests that the concern is not necessarily the absence of grain itself. Particular attention is being given to diets containing high concentrations of pulses, ingredients commonly used to replace traditional grains in many grain-free foods. This also means that simply seeing “grain-inclusive” on a bag does not automatically make a food an appropriate choice. Ingredient formulation matters.
Diet-associated DCM is a disease in which the heart muscle becomes enlarged and weakened, reducing its ability to pump blood effectively. Researchers are still investigating exactly why certain diets are associated with these cardiac changes, so it would be inaccurate to say that grain-free food has been proven to cause every case of DCM. However, there is enough evidence of an association that we believe taking a precautionary approach is appropriate for the dogs we produce.
We recommend feeding a complete, balanced, grain-inclusive diet from an established manufacturer with veterinary nutritional expertise, extensive quality control, and feeding research behind its formulations. Your veterinarian should always be involved when choosing a diet for a dog with individual medical or nutritional needs.
We put tremendous time, care, and resources into giving our puppies the healthiest foundation possible. Good nutrition is one of the simplest ways their families can continue protecting that foundation throughout their lives.
Our recommendation applies to every one of our Boston Terriers, regardless of age or size. 🐾❤️
