Happy Dog

Happy Dog Mini Senior review

Name: Happy Dog Mini Senior
Brand: Happy Dog

56.4/100Good

DryAdultSenior

The gentler member of Happy Dog's small breed family. Protein eases back to 23.5% and fat to 11%, rice leads, and chicory powder joins the tail as the one clearly senior touch. A comfortable, unchallenging bowl for an older small dog with a settled stomach.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older small breed dogs, the audience named on the front
Owners wanting less protein and fat than a full adult recipe
An easily upset gut. Rice leads and chicory powder feeds the gut bacteria
Fans of the Happy Dog tail of herbs, mussel meat and milk thistle
Dogs from 2kg to 10kg, the range the feeding table is written around

Worth watching

Cereal makes up more of the bag than meat does
Only 8% named meat, with an unnamed meat meal and a hydrolysed protein holding the rest
Salmon meal inside the fish meal, one to note for a dog kept off fish
Oils and fats with no source given

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

How this scores

How we score

56.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior small breeds. Start from the label's own table, 45 grams a day at 2kg up to 145 grams at 10kg, and let the dog settle the rest.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Happy Dog Mini Senior 56.4

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

An unusually even result across the pillars, and modest figures that a senior recipe is meant to have.

What's in it

Rice, maizeThe base of the kibble. Rice is easily digested and fair for an older gut.
Meat mealThe largest animal entry, rendered and respectable, but no species is named.
Barley
Animal proteins: poultry, lamb4% eachThe only named meats, 8% between them.
Oils and fatsNo source given.
Fish meal5%Half of it salmon meal; omega 3 in the form a dog puts to work most directly.
Hydrolysed protein, beet pulp, apple pomaceDesugared beet pulp works beside the chicory on the gut.
Linseed, dried whole egg0.15%, 0.1%
Chicory powderA natural source of inulin, the senior addition.
Milk thistle, mussel meat, herbs0.02% mussel; 0.14% herbs in totalA pleasant tail, not a working one.

A full vitamin run with vitamin C and L-carnitine, and part of the zinc as an amino acid chelate, a form the body generally absorbs more readily.

No moisture is declared, so the dry matter figures work from a kibble's usual 8%.

Named ingredients

Rice, maize, meat meal, barley, animal proteins* (poultry 4 %, lamb 4 %), oils and fats, fish meal (5 %, of which 50 % salmon meal), hydrolysed protein, beet pulp (desugared), apple pomace, potassium chloride, yeasts*, sodium chloride, seaweed*, linseed (0.15 %), dried whole egg (0.1 %), chicory powder, milk thistle, mussel meat* (0.02 %), yucca schidigera*, yeasts* (extract), artichoke, dandelion, ginger (0.014 %), birch leaves, stinging nettle, camomile, coriander, rosemary, sage, liquorice root, thyme (total dried herbs: 0.14 %). *dried.

Against the range

One small-breed senior kibble on a rice and maize base, with an unnamed meat meal as the largest animal entry and poultry and lamb at 4% each behind it. Chicory powder is the senior addition, and a long Happy Dog tail of herbs follows.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

359.7 kcal/100g

Protein

23.5%

Fat

11%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

25.5%

Fat

12%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

53.8%

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

26%

Carbs

68.7%

Veg

0.9%

Oils

Other

2.3%

Pricing & size