Happy Dog

Happy Dog Mini Adult review

Name: Happy Dog Mini Adult
Brand: Happy Dog

63.2/100Good

DryAdult

A small kibble for small breeds, and a straightforward everyday bowl for a dog that eats poultry happily. Dried poultry at 16% and lamb at 4% lead, with maize and barley behind them and salmon meal in the middle. What holds it in our Good band is naming: several working entries describe a category, not an animal.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small breeds, with a feeding table from 2kg to 10kg
Dogs that get on with poultry and lamb
Owners who want omega 3 from fish: fish meal at 5%, half of it salmon
Households happy to feed grain, with maize, barley and rice doing the carrying
Small dogs with ordinary appetites. Portions stay modest

Worth watching

Unnamed poultry, meat meal and oils and fats, so it will not anchor a strict elimination trial
Salmon meal throughout, so no bag is fish free
A hydrolysed protein with no source given

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

How this scores

How we score

63.2/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs. Find your dog's weight on the label's table, which asks 45 grams a day at 2kg rising to 150 grams at 10kg.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Happy Dog Mini Adult 63.2

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Held back by naming more than by nourishment: the quantities are there, the species behind the meat meal and fats are not.

What's in it

Dried animal proteins: poultry, lamb16% and 4%Dried, so the declared weight survives into the kibble. Poultry could be chicken, turkey, duck or goose; the bag never says.
Maize flour, maizeSecond and third, so cereal takes a good share of the bowl.
Oils and fatsNo source given, so a good poultry fat and a commodity oil would read the same.
BarleyWell digested once cooked, with useful fibre.
Meat mealNo species.
Fish meal5%, half salmon mealThe main source of marine omega 3.
Rice, hydrolysed proteinThe hydrolysed protein has no source on the label.
Beet pulp, apple pomace, yeasts, salts, seaweedDesugared beet pulp gives a gentler, fermentable bulk.
Linseed, dried whole egg, mussel meat0.16%, 0.1%, 0.02%
Milk thistle, artichoke, dandelion, ginger and other herbs0.15% in totalCharacter more than medicine.

Every trace mineral dosed in print, with part of the zinc as an amino acid chelate, a form most dogs absorb more readily.

No ash or moisture declared, so the analysis stays as fed and cannot convert to dry matter.

Named ingredients

Animal proteins* (poultry 16 %, lamb 4 %), maize flour, maize, oils and fats, barley, meat meal, fish meal (5 %, of which 50 % salmon meal), rice, hydrolysed protein, beet pulp* (desugared), apple pomace*, potassium chloride, yeasts*, sodium chloride, seaweed*, linseed (0.16 %), dried whole egg (0.1 %), milk thistle, yeasts* (extract), mussel meat* (0.02 %), yucca schidigera*, artichoke, dandelion, ginger (0.016 %), birch leaves, stinging nettle, camomile, coriander, rosemary, sage, liquorice root, thyme (total dried herbs: 0.15 %) *dried

Against the range

One small-breed kibble with dried poultry and lamb up top, maize and barley for the starch, and fish meal in the middle. Behind them sit a meat meal, a hydrolysed protein and oils and fats that name no species, then a long tail of herbs.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

372.8 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.2%

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

44.7%

Carbs

48.2%

Veg

0.5%

Oils

4.9%

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size