Dinky Dog

Dinky Dog Wet Food: Chicken & Lamb review

Name: Dinky Dog Wet Food: Chicken & Lamb
Brand: Dinky Dog

88.2/100Outstanding

WetPuppyAdult

Flavour

Small-dog trays built on one short pattern repeated six ways, with 65% named meat and broth doing most of the rest. The chicken and lamb tray reaches our Outstanding band and the other five sit just behind in Excellent. A label this short shows you exactly what your dog gets.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small dogs, the size the range is drawn up around
Animal content counted, at 65% on every tray
Rotation feeders: one construction with the meat and greenery swapped
Puppy, adult and older dog fed from one range
Dogs that get on better without cereal
Fussy eaters, with little in the tray beyond the meat

Worth watching

Broth with no animal named
Green-lipped mussel puts shellfish on all six
Several 85 g trays a meal for a medium or large dog
Vitamin D3 is the only vitamin printed

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

How this scores

How we score

88.2/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small dogs from puppy to senior. The label asks 170 to 340 grams a day for a 3 kg dog and 340 to 680 grams for a 10 kg dog.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 88.2
Chicken 79.4
Beef 78.3
Lamb 77.2
Turkey 77.0
Turkey 77.0

Six recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Almost nothing separates the six, so pick by which animal your dog prefers.

What's in it

Chicken35%
Lamb30%
Broth28.7%A generous share to declare. No animal named beside it.
Carrots, peas3%, 2%
Minerals1%
Olive oil0.1%A decent source of vitamin E, at trace level.
Green-lipped mussel0.1%The usual wet-food route to glucosamine and chondroitin. Shellfish.
Goldenrod herb powder0.1%

Vitamin D3, zinc and manganese, each dosed; D3 is the only vitamin.

Named ingredients

Chicken 35%, Lamb 30%, Broth 28.7%, Carrots 3%, Peas 2%, Minerals 1%, Olive Oil 0.1%, Greenlipped Mussel 0.1%, Goldenrod Herb Powder 0.1%

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 35%, lamb 30%; One meat on four trays; turkey with pheasant on the other
Calcium, dry matter: 1.43%, the highest; Down to 0.84%
Protein, dry matter: 48.6%; 38.5% to 51.0%

The one tray pairing a bird with a red meat, and the top score in the range.

Six 85 g trays on one pattern: 65% named animal, broth at 28.7%, and a vegetable or fruit at 3% with another at 2%. Minerals at 1% follow, then olive oil, green-lipped mussel and goldenrod at 0.1% each. Four name a single meat; two split it.

No cereal appears. Protein converts to between 38.5% and 51.0% of dry matter, carbohydrate to between 8.5% and 15.8%. Three trays add copper and iodine to the short added panel.

Price and value

Sold as an 85 g tray, singly and in packs of 12.

We do not hold a per kilo figure for this range at the time of writing, so there is no day rate to give here. For a 3 kg dog the label's own guide asks 170 to 340 grams a day, and for a 10 kg dog 340 to 680 grams. The exact amount depends on which tray is in the bowl.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

95 kcal/100g

Protein

10.2%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

Moisture

79%

Dry weight

Protein

48.6%

Fat

26.2%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

14.3%

Carbs

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

65.1%

Added water

28.7%

Carbs

Veg

Oils

0.1%

Other

1.1%

Pricing & size