Fish4Dogs

Fish4Dogs Working Dog Puppy: Salmon review

Name: Fish4Dogs Working Dog Puppy: Salmon
Brand: Fish4Dogs

69.7/100Good

DryPuppy

Flavour

A fish-first puppy food packed in one big sack for kennels and busy households, in salmon or white fish. Both land in our Good band, the salmon towards the top of it. Fresh fish and salmon meal work together, the meal carrying its protein into the kibble intact.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A litter, or several pups at once
Pups that suit fish better than poultry or red meat
Grain-free homes
Active, hard-going pups: 381 kcal per 100g against the 376 typical of puppy dry food

Worth watching

No calcium figure on either label, so plan a large-breed pup's feeding with your vet
The white fish sack brings salmon in behind its headline fish

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

How this scores

How we score

69.7/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. The ration climbs through the early months and eases near the adult frame, so work from the chart on the sack and let the ribs and waist tell you when to change it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Salmon 69.7
White Fish 59.7

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The analysis is the same on both, so the narrow gap comes down to how each headline is built.

What's in it

Salmon27.5%Fresh, so it gives up weight in the oven.
Sweet potato26%A little more fibre than plain potato.
Salmon meal20%Carries its protein into the kibble.
Pea starch
Salmon oil8%
Beet pulpFibre most dogs tolerate easily.
Brewers yeast
Sunflower oil, minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E, taurine at 1 g per kilo and iodine, kept fresh with tocopherol-rich extracts.

No calcium figure. Ask the maker for it before rearing a large-breed pup on this.

Named ingredients

Salmon (27.5%), Sweet Potato (26%), Salmon Meal (20%), Pea Starch, Salmon Oil (8%), Beet Pulp, Brewers Yeast, Sunflower Oil, Minerals.

Against the range

Fish: Salmon only; White fish with salmon behind it in the other.
Root vegetable: Sweet potato 26%; Potato 20% in the white fish.
Salmon oil: 8%; 10% in the white fish.

The sack for a pup that must stay on one fish.

Both sacks open on a named fresh fish, add salmon meal a few entries down and take their fat from salmon oil with sunflower oil behind it. Pea starch and a root vegetable do the binding, beet pulp brings fibre and brewers yeast adds B vitamins. No cereal appears on either list.

The declared analysis is identical: protein 30.0%, fat 14%, energy 381 kcal per 100g. Moisture is not printed, so the dry matter figures rest on an assumed 8%. Neither label gives a calcium figure. The added list is brief: vitamins A, D3 and E, taurine at 1 g and iodine.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

381 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

42.1%

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

47.5%

Carbs

40.6%

Oils

9.2%

Other

2.7%

Pricing & size