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Feelwell's Feelwells Gourmet Wet Dog Food: Venison & Potato review

Name: Feelwell's Feelwells Gourmet Wet Dog Food: Venison & Potato
Brand: Feelwell's

74/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

Two trays with one of the shortest lists on the wet shelf, both in our Excellent band. Freshly prepared lamb at 94% or venison at 95%, one plant, an oil and minerals, and that is the recipe. Nutritional balance and transparency read Outstanding on both.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Elimination diets, with one animal and one plant per tray
Owners who check every ingredient: there are four to read
Dogs trying venison, which very few British foods put in a tray
Toy and small dogs, as a 150g tray matches a small appetite
Older dogs with tired teeth

Worth watching

Vegetable oil with no plant named, the one loose term on a precise label
No fish oil in either tray, if you want marine omega 3s
Small trays, so a big dog needs several at a meal

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

How this scores

How we score

74/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Both are listed for adults and seniors of every size, and the lamb for puppies too. Count the trays your dog needs a day before ordering, since each holds 150g.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Venison

The score, in context

Lamb 78.4
Venison 74.0

All two Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

An animal share in the mid nineties and a fully dosed panel lift both trays, and the lamb sits a shade ahead, so the choice comes down to which meat suits your dog.

What's in it

Freshly prepared venison95%Novel for most British dogs.
Potato4.1%
Vegetable oilThe one general term on the label.
Minerals

The same fully dosed panel as the lamb, cassia gum included as the thickener.

Ash reads 15.0% of dry matter, which usually points to more mineral and bone in the meat.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Venison 95%, Potato 4.1%, Vegetable Oil, Minerals

Against the range

Meat: Venison 95%; Lamb 94% in the other tray
Fat, dry matter: 27.5%; 31.6% on the lamb
Ash, dry matter: 15.0%; 10.5% on the lamb

The leaner tray, and the one to try when a dog needs a meat it has not met before.

Four entries on each label: one freshly prepared meat in the mid nineties, one plant carrier at 4.1%, a vegetable oil and minerals. The meat and the plant change between the two trays; the added panel, dosed line by line, is the same on both. Neither tray declares its calories or its calcium, so the energy figures are our estimates.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

84.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

45%

Fat

27.5%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

15%

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

95%

Added water

0.5%

Carbs

4.1%

Oils

0.2%

Other

0.1%

Pricing & size