Cobbydog Premium Gluten Free review

Our Average band is where this one settles, a rung below the Good band that holds the typical adult dry food, and the reasons are structural rather than sinister. Rice outweighs the meat, the poultry never names its species, and protein and processing reads Average as a result. The analysis tells a friendlier story, with protein converting to 26.1% of dry matter and carbohydrate at 49.5% sitting only a little above the 46.2% typical. What the band flags is how the recipe is ordered and described, not how it feeds.

Ingredients, as declared: White Rice (27%) Poultry Meat Meal (26%), Whole Maize, Poultry Oil, Sugar Beet Pellets, Whole Oats, Whole Linseed, Brewers Yeast, Fish Meal, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic FOS), Extract of Yucca Schidigera. Additives: Antioxidants.

White rice at 27% takes the lead, with poultry meat meal at 26% just behind. Rice is a gentle and digestible starch, a sensible choice in a gluten free context, but the ordering deserves a plain reading: the single biggest thing in this food is grain, not meat. The finished analysis softens that somewhat, because meal is concentrated and protein still converts to a healthy 26.1% of dry matter.

Poultry meal is the recipe's one real vagueness. Meal itself is a legitimate workhorse ingredient, a protein-dense powder made by rendering and drying, and this one clearly earns its keep on the protein line. What the word poultry withholds is the bird. Chicken, turkey, duck and goose are all possible, and the blend can lawfully shift between batches, which only matters if your dog needs a named meat.

Poultry oil carries most of the 15.2% dry matter fat, whole linseed contributes plant omega 3s, and fish meal adds bio-appropriate amino acids along with a smell dogs tend to adore. Skin and coat get decent fatty acid coverage from all three sources.

The last third of the list is quietly likeable. Sugar beet pellets provide both soluble and insoluble fibre, and brewers yeast chips in B vitamins. Chicory root extract supplies the prebiotic FOS that encourages friendly gut bacteria, and yucca schidigera is the traditional answer to smelly stools. Antioxidants keep the fats fresh, and each trace mineral has its dose printed beside it in conventional oxide and sulphate forms.

£3.56 a kilo, sold in 3kg and 12kg bags.

Expect around 223 grams and £0.80 a day for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, worked from the standard maintenance estimate of about 840 kcal daily (110 × bodyweight^0.75). The bag's own table gives a dog between 15kg and 25kg some 190 to 280 grams, so treat both figures as starting points and feed to condition.