Canagan

Canagan Working Dog review

Name: Canagan Canagan Working Dog
Brand: Canagan

78/100Excellent

DryPuppyAdult

Canagan Working Dog scales the brand's grain-free poultry recipe up for dogs that earn their dinner. Chicken and turkey together make up 56.1% of the label, energy runs to 403 kcal per 100g, and the supplement bench is unusually deep, from a heavily dosed joint trio to added taurine. It lands in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

When your dog puts in a full day's work, the bowl at the end of it needs to keep up.

Working and sporting dogs, with 19% fat and 403 kcal per 100g to fund long active days
Busy multi-dog households, with one bag covering every life stage and every size
Owners who want the supplement work done for them, with the joint trio, taurine and itemised vitamins all printed with doses
Dogs that do better without grain, because sweet potato and potatoes stand in for cereals

Worth watching

Have a quick look at these before the first sack goes in your boot.

Worth knowing if you feed strictly fish-free: salmon oil is on the ingredients list
Chicken and turkey travel together here, which is unhelpful if you are trying to isolate one bird from the other
All that energy needs somewhere to go, so a dog between working seasons will want portions trimmed to match

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

78/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The Details

Dog fit

When your dog puts in a full day's work, the bowl at the end of it needs to keep up. Have a quick look at these before the first sack goes in your boot.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Our Excellent band verdict puts this recipe clear of the typical adult dry food, which settles a step down in the Good band. The gap is earned the plain way: more than half the recipe is named poultry, carbohydrate stays moderate for a kibble, and the additive panel is printed in full.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: 56.1% Chicken & Turkey (Freshly Prepared Free Range Chicken 20.4%, Dried Chicken 19%, Freshly Prepared Turkey 10.2%, Turkey fat 5%, Chicken Gravy 1.5%), Sweet Potato, Potatoes, Peas, Alfalfa, Whole Egg (3%), Salmon Oil (2%), Minerals, Glucosamine (1,850mg), MSM (1,850mg), Chondroitin Sulphate (1,350mg), Apple, Carrot, Fructooligosaccharides, Spinach, Psyllium, Seaweed, Peppermint, Camomile, Marigold, Cranberry, Aniseed & Fenugreek.

Named ingredients

56.1% Chicken & Turkey (Freshly Prepared Free Range Chicken 20.4%, Dried Chicken 19%, Freshly Prepared Turkey 10.2%, Turkey fat 5%, Chicken Gravy 1.5%), Sweet Potato, Potatoes, Peas, Alfalfa, Whole Egg (3%), Salmon Oil (2%), Minerals, Glucosamine (1,850mg), MSM (1,850mg), Chondroitin Sulphate (1,350mg), Apple, Carrot, Fructooligosaccharides, Spinach, Psyllium, Seaweed, Peppermint, Camomile, Marigold, Cranberry, Aniseed & Fenugreek.

Nutritional additives

_(the page labels this "NUTRITIONAL ADDITIVES (PER KG)")_: VITAMINS: Vitamin A 15,000 IU, Vitamin C 100mg, Vitamin D3 1,200 IU, Vitamin E 150mg, Taurine 1,500mg. TRACE ELEMENTS: Iodine (Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 2mg, Copper (Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 10mg, Zinc (Chelate Hydrate) 45mg, Zinc (Oxide) 90mg, Selenium (Sodium Selenite) 0.2mg

Ingredient notes

The 56.1% poultry figure is itemised properly: freshly prepared chicken at 20.4%, dried chicken at 19%, freshly prepared turkey at 10.2%, turkey fat at 5% and chicken gravy at 1.5%. The near-even split between fresh and dried is the right shape, since the dried share keeps its protein through cooking while the fresh share brings the taste. Protein finishes at 33.7% of dry matter.

Sweet potato, potatoes and peas supply the energy base, with carbohydrate estimated at 35.8% of dry matter where the typical adult dry food runs to 46.2%. No grain appears on the label.

Fat is the working part of a working food, and at 20.7% of dry matter driving 403 kcal per 100g, this is fuel for genuine output rather than a potter round the park.

The supplement bench runs deep: glucosamine and MSM at 1,850 mg each, chondroitin sulphate at 1,350 mg, taurine at 1,500 mg, plus itemised vitamins and zinc in both chelated and oxide forms. Whole egg at 3% and salmon oil at 2% round out the animal side.

Price and value

£5.58 a kilo, sold in 2kg and 12kg bags.

A 15kg adult in moderate condition comes out at roughly 208 grams and £1.16 a day on the usual maintenance arithmetic of about 840 kcal (110 × bodyweight^0.75). A dog in hard work burns well past that baseline, so feed to condition and workload rather than to a formula.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

403 kcal/100g

Protein

31%

Fat

19%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

33.7%

Fat

20.7%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

35.8%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

57.6%

Added water

1.5%

Carbs

32.3%

Veg

3.2%

Oils

Other

3.5%

Pricing & size