Fish4Dogs

Fish4Dogs Working Dog review

Name: Fish4Dogs Working Dog
Brand: Fish4Dogs

51.9/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

The brand's hardest working recipe, for dogs on the move all day, in three fish versions that all read in our Good band. The sardine finishes top. Every animal ingredient across the range is fish, and salmon oil goes in at a level that would look generous on any dry food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working and sporting dogs, or any pet dog whose day covers real miles
Every size: the feeding table runs from 1kg to 80kg
Fish and nothing but. None of the three carries a land animal
Kennels and busy multi-dog homes after one recipe for everybody

Worth watching

Salmon meal and salmon oil in all three, and the fish version names only a family, so none suits a strict fish exclusion
Energy dense food for hard workers. A quieter dog needs noticeably smaller bowls

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

How this scores

How we score

51.9/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Feed to the bag's own table and let the waistline settle the amount, since these are built for dogs that burn a lot.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

White Fish

The score, in context

Sardine 65.2
Salmon 55.0
Fish 51.9

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Little separates the three, so the flavour your dog looks forward to is the better tiebreaker, though the sardine edges ahead on its larger dried fish share and leaner carbohydrate.

What's in it

White fish27%Species not named. Fresh weight, so much of it is water that cooks away.
Potato23%
Pea starchWith the potato, the starchy base.
Salmon meal12%The dried fish that carries most of the protein. Salmon in a white fish recipe.
Salmon oil9%The main fat, and the source of much of the energy.
Beet pulpFirms stools without asking much of the gut.
Brewers yeastPalatant and B vitamins.
Sunflower oil, minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E with taurine at 1 g and iodine the only trace element dosed, preserved with tocopherol-rich extracts.

The white fish is not named to species, so this cannot pin down one particular fish.

Named ingredients

White Fish (27%), Potato (23%), Pea Starch, Salmon Meal (12%), Salmon Oil (9%), Beet Pulp, Brewers Yeast, Sunflower Oil, Minerals.

Against the range

Lead fish: White fish, 27%, unnamed; Salmon at 27% or sardine at 26%, both named.
Salmon meal: 12%; 11.9% in the salmon, 21.5% in the sardine.
Salmon oil: 9%; 9.7% in the salmon, 5.5% in the sardine.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 47.8%; Same in the salmon; 43.5% in the sardine.

The mildest flavour in the range, at the cost of knowing which fish.

All three share one skeleton. A fresh named fish sits at the top, with salmon meal as the dried partner that delivers most of the finished protein. Pea starch and a potato make the base, and beet pulp the fibre. No cereal grain and no land animal appears in any of them.

Salmon oil is the fat throughout, at generous levels, with sunflower oil behind it. Brewers yeast and 1 g of taurine run through the range. Iodine is the only mineral quantified on any label. What varies is the lead fish, the size of the salmon meal share and the potato.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

367 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

12%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

13%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

47.8%

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

39%

Carbs

45.9%

Oils

10.9%

Other

4.2%

Pricing & size