BullyBillows Adult Dog Dry Food: Scottish Salmon review

All three varieties reach our Excellent band, a clear step above the Good band where the typical adult dry food lands. The beef is the strongest of the three on paper, with the highest protein and the leanest carbohydrate estimate. If the bands matter to you, start there and let your dog's protein history settle the rest.

Ingredients, as declared: 65% Fish (Freshly Prepared Scottish Salmon (35%), Dried Salmon (23%), Salmon Oil (4%), Salmon Stock (3%)), Sweet Potato, Beans, Beet Pulp, Dried Superfood Blend* (Including Dill, Spinach, Fennel, Asparagus, Tomato), Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 175 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 50 mg/kg), Olive Extract (0.01%), *Each equivalent to 4% Fresh Ingredients.

Every variety opens with 65% declared animal content and prints the arithmetic: 35% freshly prepared meat, a dried share in the twenties, and the fat, oil or gravy from the same species. Fresh meat is mostly water, and cooking drives that off. The hefty dried share is what secures the protein, and the analysis bears it out: protein converts to between 34.8% and 41.3% of dry matter across the range.

Sweet potato, beans and beet pulp handle the plant side without any grain, and the carbohydrate estimate stays between 29.9% and 37.5% of dry matter, under the 46.2% typical for an adult dry food.

Each variety carries its own dried superfood blend, five plants declared at the equivalent of 4% fresh ingredients apiece. They vary from dill and spinach to ginger and blueberry depending on the recipe, and they are garnish rather than engine: the meat is doing the work here.

Digestive support is dosed in print, fructooligosaccharides at 175 mg/kg and mannanoligosaccharides at 50 mg/kg, with olive extract at 0.01% closing the list.

The single-animal promise holds all the way through the named ingredients, which is genuinely rare. The only opacity is the omega 3 supplement, which does not say what it is made from; a household running a strict exclusion diet should put that question to the maker before relying on it.

Scottish salmon at 35% fresh and 23% dried, finished with salmon oil at 4% and stock at 3%. Fish is the whole animal side, a natural home for dogs kept off land meats. The built-in salmon oil also gives it the richest marine omega supply of the three.

All three varieties are £6.67 a kilo, sold in 2kg, 6kg and 12kg bags.

Day to day, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition needs between 220 and 226 grams depending on variety. That works out at £1.47 to £1.51, using the standard 840 kcal maintenance estimate (110 × bodyweight^0.75).