Cotswold Raw

Cotswold Raw Active 80/20 Wild: Rabbit & Venison review

Name: Cotswold Raw Active 80/20 Wild: Rabbit & Venison
Brand: Cotswold Raw

90.2/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

All four frozen minces sit in our Outstanding band. The draw is the game: venison, wild boar, pheasant and rabbit, paired with duck or turkey, most of it British and some of it wild shot. Every ingredient carries a percentage, down to the spirulina.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that have worked through the everyday proteins
Owners who want game already balanced into a complete recipe
Active dogs in hard condition, with fat between 29.7% and 41.3% of dry matter
A change of bird for poultry-fed dogs: duck in three, pheasant in one
Label readers. Every ingredient down to the spirulina at 0.02% carries a figure

Worth watching

Beef heart, liver and kidney in all four, so none can carry an exclusion diet on its own
Rabbit & Venison leads with British turkey at 25%
Wheatgerm and free range egg in every recipe

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

How this scores

How we score

90.2/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. A 15kg dog in moderate condition takes about 300 grams a day; check your dog has never reacted to beef before choosing any of the four.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Duck 90.6
Wild Boar 90.5
Wild Range Pheasant 90.4
Rabbit 90.2

All four Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Four out of four in the top band is a strong showing in raw, the toughest company a food keeps on our scoring.

What's in it

British turkey25%Leads the label, though it is not in the name.
Wild British venison with bone20%
Wild rabbit20%About as close as it gets to what a dog would take for itself.
Beef heart, beef liver, beef kidney5%, 5%, 5%The same organ set in every pack, and the reason a dog kept off beef cannot use these.
Carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli5% each
Free range eggs, milled flaxseed0.5% each
Wheatgerm0.25%
Kelp0.15%For iodine.
Turmeric, milk thistle, dandelion, nettle leaf, alfalfa, spirulina, thyme0.12% down to 0.02%Seasoning more than working doses, and the percentages say so.

No additives panel. Nothing goes in that is not on the label, so the bone supplies the calcium.

Turkey at 25% is the largest meat here, ahead of both animals in the name.

No calcium figure on the label.

Named ingredients

British turkey (25%), wild British venison with bone (20%), wild rabbit (20%), beef heart (5%), beef liver (5%), beef kidney (5%), seasonal vegetables (carrots (5%), cauliflower (5%), cabbage (5%), broccoli (5%), free range eggs (0.5%) milled flaxseed (0.5%), wheatgerm (0.25%), kelp (0.15%), turmeric (0.12%), milk thistle (0.05%), dandelion (0.05%), nettle leaf (0.05%), alfalfa (0.025%), spirulina (0.02%), thyme (0.02%).

Against the range

Meats: Turkey, venison, rabbit; Two headline meats in each of the others
Fat, dry matter: 31.8%; Second lowest; the pheasant is 29.7%
Energy: 182 kcal per 100g; Largest portions of the four

The most crowded label in the range, so read it closely if turkey matters.

Every recipe pairs game or duck at 30% to 35% a meat, then adds beef heart, liver and kidney. The plant share is identical across the four: carrot, cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli at 5% each, then eggs, flaxseed, wheatgerm, kelp and a run of herbs down to 0.02%.

No premix goes in, so the analyses reflect meat, bone, organ and vegetables. Protein converts to between 42.7% and 54.5% of dry matter and fat to between 29.7% and 41.3%. None of the labels prints a calcium figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

181.8 kcal/100g

Protein

15.8%

Fat

9.33%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

70.7%

Dry weight

Protein

53.9%

Fat

31.8%

Fibre

1.4%

Ash

8.5%

Carbs

4.4%

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

100%

Pricing & size