Better Information.Better Questions.Better Choices For Your Dog.
Explore independent canine nutrition, health and wellbeing education alongside practical tools, searchable research, global practitioner discovery and whole-food guidance.
Education should help you think, not simply tell you what to buy.
Founded by Libby Halpin, The Balanced Canine combines specialist study in canine nutrition, nutrigenomics and holistic health with research-aware education, transparent limitations and responsible referral to veterinary and appropriately qualified professionals.
Education that keeps moving, just like the evidence.
Selected completed qualifications and professional study. These are not presented as veterinary qualifications and do not replace veterinary diagnosis or individual clinical care.
It is much more than a vet finder.
Search thousands of canine professionals across the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe by name, postcode or ZIP code, discipline and whether support is available online or in person.
Search the science, then see what it can really tell us.
The Research Hub helps pet parents explore canine studies across nutrition, fresh feeding, the microbiome, nutrigenomics, longevity, botanicals and integrative care in clearer language, with methods and limitations kept visible.
Compare the food, not just the front of the packet.
Compare fresh cooked, shelf-stable, freeze-dried, air-dried, wet, dry and cold-pressed alternatives with recipe-level nutrition, dry matter context where data support it, filters and indicative costs.
The Functional Food Finder
Discover functional foods, botanicals and nutritional ingredients by potential use, evidence context, bowl fit and safety, with everyday food use kept distinct from medicinal exposure.
Find the ingredient that fits the question.
Search by goal, read practical whole-food guidance, understand key cautions and explore the level of evidence behind each entry before deciding what belongs in your dog's wider care plan.
Understand why TBC starts with fresh.
Why Fresh is a step-by-step, evidence-led guide to canine physiology, macronutrients, moisture, food format, processing, digestibility and the microbiome. It supports informed choice without pretending one feeding method is automatically right for every dog.
Founded in 2024 and now accessed by a growing international community of pet parents looking for independent canine health and nutrition education.
About these figures
Website figures use current official TBC analytics. The daily, hourly and seconds figures are averages derived from 56,000 monthly site visits and do not represent unique visitors. Community membership is approximately 3,500 Balancers. The 100% recommendation figure reflects the current recommendation rate shown on The Balanced Canine Facebook page.
Keep learning, calculating and saving.
Move from detailed education to practical tools and transparent community benefits without losing the evidence-aware context behind each resource.
Knowledge Library
Search symptoms, nutrients, ingredients, feeding methods and health concepts, or browse TBC education by topic rather than trying to remember where an article lives.
Discount Directory
Find current TBC community offers and partner codes in one clear directory, with commercial relationships disclosed rather than hidden inside educational content.
Learn. Compare. Calculate. Find support.
Use the site as a toolkit. Each resource has a different job, so you can move from a question to useful context without reading the whole website first.
Alternative Food Finder
Explore UK fresh cooked, shelf-stable, freeze-dried, air-dried, wet, dry and cold-pressed alternatives with recipe-level context where published data support it.
Open the finder CalculateDog Food Calculators
Use the Dry Matter Basis, raw feeding, DIY raw and UK raw food cost comparison tools as practical starting points.
Use the calculators Find supportGlobal Practitioner Finder
Search across multiple canine health, rehabilitation, nutrition, holistic and complementary disciplines by professional, location and service type.
Find a practitioner Understand the baselineWhy Fresh?
Walk through canine physiology, food format, processing and the evidence behind TBC's preference for well-formulated fresh feeding when it suits the individual dog.
Explore Why Fresh LearnKnowledge Library
Search long-form education and browse nutrition, health, food literacy, gut health, longevity, botanicals and whole-dog wellness by subject.
Find an answer Go deeperResearch Hub
Move beyond a headline and inspect what a study actually did, what it found, what it may mean and what it cannot prove.
Browse the scienceNo hype. No single ideology. No pretending uncertainty does not exist.
The aim is not to make every dog guardian choose the same thing. It is to make better information easier to find and easier to question.
Evidence without tunnel vision
Research matters, but so do clinical context, nutritional adequacy, welfare and the limits of what a study can actually tell us.
Transparency over marketing
Commercial relationships should be disclosed, missing information acknowledged and questions about sourcing welcomed.
The whole dog matters
Nutrition sits alongside behaviour, environment, movement, stress, genetics, veterinary care and the individual dog's history.
Built to be useful enough that people come back, share it and recommend it.
TBC began in 2024 with a simple purpose: make detailed canine health and nutrition education easier to access without forcing pet parents behind a paywall for every answer. The website now reaches thousands of visits each day, across 38 countries each month, while the VIP community has grown to around 3,500 Balancers.
Three calculators. Clearer feeding decisions.
Plan a careful food transition, calculate whole-fish omega-3 portions and compare commercial foods on a dry matter basis using TBC's free practical tools.
Start with one question. TBC will help you find the next useful step.
Search the Knowledge Library, explore the evidence, compare food options, find professional support or discover a functional ingredient without needing to navigate the entire site first.