Country Pursuit

Country Pursuit Maintenance review

Name: Country Pursuit Maintenance
Brand: Country Pursuit

26.6/100Poor

DryAdultSenior

An old-fashioned kennel ration in our Poor band: seven lines on the list, each one a category name. The analysis is built to keep a dog ticking over, with protein at 21.5% and fat at 8.5%. Fish sits in the list beside the meat. Dogs have lived long, busy lives on food written this way; what you cannot do is check.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working dogs that hold their weight without trying
Dogs that gain weight easily. Fat is 8.5% and energy 347 kcal per 100g
Steady older dogs, as the label covers adult and senior feeding
A yard of dogs that all need one simple bowl
Dogs that have done well on traditional food for years and have no reason to change

Worth watching

Every line is a category, so the list never says which meats, grains or oils are in the bag, and an elimination trial cannot run on it
Fish and fish derivatives on the list
No moisture declared, so the dry matter figures assume 8%
Carbohydrate at 56.6% of dry matter against 46.2% for the typical adult dry food

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

How this scores

How we score

26.6/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyAverage

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors. The maker's chart runs high against our estimate for a 15kg dog, so let the waistline decide where in the range to sit.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Country Pursuit Maintenance 26.6

All one Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

The low score comes from what the label declines to say, and says nothing about anything being wrong in the bag.

What's in it

CerealsAnything from whole oats to wheat feed, and free to change from batch to batch.
Meat and animal derivativesA legal term that covers good material and poor alike.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Oils and fatsUnnamed.
Fish and fish derivativesWhy fish shows on the allergen reading.
Vegetable protein extractsCounts toward the 21.5% protein while doing less than meat would, so read that figure as a ceiling.
Minerals

The one part printed in full: vitamins A, D3 and E, and every trace element dosed per kilo, from zinc at 100 mg to selenium at 0.1 mg.

A dog with a specific grain problem cannot risk an unnamed cereal mix.

Named ingredients

Cereals, Meat & Animal Derivatives, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin, Oils and Fats, Fish and Fish Derivatives, Vegetable Protein Extracts, Minerals.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

347.1 kcal/100g

Protein

21.5%

Fat

8.5%

Fibre

3.4%

Ash

6.5%

Dry weight

Protein

23.4%

Fat

9.2%

Fibre

3.7%

Ash

7.1%

Carbs

56.6%

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

32.6%

Carbs

60.5%

Oils

5.4%

Other

1.5%

Pricing & size