

Dinky Dog
Dinky Dog Wet Food: Chicken & Pumpkin review
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.
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 scoreThe 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.
Wet
Puppy, Adult, Senior
Small
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
- Chicken65%
- Broth28.7%A generous share to declare. No animal named beside it.
- Pumpkin, 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, manganese, copper and iodine, each dosed; D3 is the only vitamin.
Named ingredients
Against the range
- Protein, dry matter
- 51.0%, the highest
- 38.5% to 49.5%
- Moisture
- 80.0%, the wettest
- 74% to 79%
- Energy
- 92 kcal per 100g, the lightest
- 95 to 128 kcal
The pick for a dog watching its waistline.
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.
Nutritional analysis
Declared analysis
10.2%
5.2%
0.4%
2.5%
80%
Dry weight
51%
26%
2%
12.5%
8.5%
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.
65.1%
28.7%
2%
3%
0.1%
1.1%
Pricing & size
- Price per kilo
- £16.35 (RRP)
- Pack
- 85 g tray - sold singly and as 12 × 85 g
- A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)
- 700 to 855 g a day, 780 in the middle
- Cost per day, 15kg dog
- £12.75
At 85 g a tray, a 15kg dog would need several trays a meal; the range is drawn up for small dogs.
Premium end of the market for a wet food, and the recipe earns its price.
Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.
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