Buddy Dry Adult: Wild Venison review

1. Chicken 64.9
2. Wild Venison 63.6

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Both reach the same band, with the Chicken and Lamb Feast the marginally stronger build because less of its bowl is starch.

• Dried deer protein35%The concentrated form, doing the structural work.
• Peas, sweet potatoThe binding, with no cereal.
• Fresh deer and roe deer meat15%
• Chicken fatEnergy, preserved with tocopherols, and chicken whatever the front says.
• Dried apples, carrots, dried kelp
• Hydrolysed chicken liver2%A flavour layer for fussy eaters.
• Salmon oilOmega 3, and fish in both flavours.
• Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.026%, 0.016%The declared joint pair.
• MOS, FOS, Mojave yucca0.015%, 0.012%, 0.01%
• Citrus, curcuma and rosemary extracts0.005% eachAntioxidant seasoning.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with biotin, zinc, iron, manganese, iodine, copper and selenium, all dosed on the label.

Deer on the front, but chicken fat, chicken liver and salmon oil are on the label.

Meat

Dried deer 35%, fresh deer and roe deer 15%

Chicken and lamb in the other

Fat

12% as fed

15% in the Chicken and Lamb Feast

Carbohydrate, dry matter

46.2%

42.8% in the other

The flavour for a dog who needs a less-travelled meat, in a gentler bowl.

Both recipes lead with dried meat protein and bind on peas and sweet potato, with no cereal. Chicken fat, hydrolysed chicken liver at 2% and salmon oil run through both, so each flavour carries chicken and fish whatever the bag says. The joint pair, prebiotics and yucca are identical and dosed in percentages.

What varies is the meat and the build: Chicken and Lamb Feast is richer, at 15% fat, while Wild Venison runs at 12% with more of the bowl in starch.

Price per kilo

£7.92 (RRP)

Pack

2 kg, 5 kg, 12 kg, 17 kg

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

160 to 195 g a day, 180 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£1.43

Up among the dearer kibbles, and priced above its analysis.