Congestive heart Failure

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last I checked, heart (and other organ meat for that matter), is "part of the carcass of a slaughtered chicken".
If you don't want to discuss processed food, then stop lurking in the processed food section. ;)

Only here because I have a dog with heart disease. The OP asked for a non-prescription alternative. I'm not here to tout raw food, only to say the prescription food for hearts is all crap AND one's dog at a minimum should not be getting any added salt.

Sorry to disagree with fifty-bazillion degree nutritionist - but you should really not tell falsehoods to people about the ingredients in the dog food and try to pass sawdust off as something with a real reason for being in there. And act like people are so stupid they must trust the dog food companies (who only have our pets best interests at heart, of course) to give our sick dogs the right ingredients and none of the bad ones.

I'm sure AAFCO just forgot to mention heart and all the good organ meat in the "such as" part. I bet those by-products are just chock full of tasty organ meat. Not counting intestines, feathers, and beaks of course.