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Happy Dog Professional: Adult Mini review

Name: Happy Dog Professional: Adult Mini
Brand: Happy Dog

36.6/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

The kennel and breeder line, sold in big sacks and mostly labelled by category. Gold Power breaks the pattern, naming its poultry, chicken and rice with percentages, and it is the clear pick of the eight. These are foods built to feed a lot of dogs consistently and economically.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Kennels, breeders and multi-dog homes buying by the sack
Hard-working dogs: High Energy declares 30% protein and 20% fat, with Gold Power close behind
Small breeds, on Adult Mini
Dogs kept off grain, on Sensitive Grainfree's potatoes and potato flakes
A small-breed puppy on lamb, with Puppy Mini Lamb & Rice declaring lamb protein at 15%
Dogs that need settling, with L-tryptophan at 1000 mg per kilo on the puppy bag

Worth watching

Category names stand in for real ingredients on most labels
The species behind the derivatives is never given, so none of these can anchor an elimination trial
Fish on all eight labels
Oils and fats on every recipe with no source

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

How this scores

How we score

36.6/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Mostly listed for adults of every size, with Adult Mini and the puppy bag for small breeds. The feeding tables run by bodyweight band, so read across and let condition settle the amount.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Gold Power 26/20 53.3
Puppy Mini Lamb 42.9
Sensitive Grainfree 24/14 41.6
High Energy 30/20 39.2
Adult Mini 36.6
Pro Body 25/20 34.9
Sportive 26/16 32.5
Basis 23/9.5 27.7

Eight recipes across Good and Average and Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

The recipes that commit to a named meat and starch sit at the top and the category-only labels sit lower; the spread measures what we can verify, not how a dog will do.

What's in it

Cereals (maize, rice)A category, with two grains named inside it.
Meat and animal derivatives (poultry protein)16% poultryDried. Only the poultry share is pinned down.
Oils and fatsNo source given.
Fish and fish derivatives
Derivatives of vegetable origin (apple pomace), minerals, yeasts
Algae, seeds, eggs and egg derivatives
Molluscs and crustaceans (mussel powder)

Dosed in print: zinc at 95 mg, iron at 45 mg and iodine at 2 mg per kilo, among the rest.

Named ingredients

Cereals (including maize, rice), meat and animal derivatives* (including poultry protein* (16 %)), oils and fats, fish and fish derivatives*, derivatives of vegetable origin* (including apple pomace*), minerals, yeasts*, algae*, seeds, eggs and egg derivatives*, molluscs and crustaceans* (including mussel powder); *) dried.

Against the range

Meat: Poultry protein 16%; 7% on Basis to 20% on Sensitive Grainfree
Size: Small kibble, table for 2kg to 10kg dogs; The other adult bags cover every size
Energy: 382 kcal per 100g; 406 on Gold Power

A small kibble for small mouths, built the same way as the category recipes.

Seven of the eight labels are written in the legal category style: cereals or vegetable derivatives, meat and animal derivatives, oils and fats. The bracket inside the meat entry names a poultry or lamb protein share, from 7% on Basis up to 20% on Sensitive Grainfree. Gold Power alone names its meat and rice outright.

Every recipe carries fish in some form and an unsourced oils and fats entry. The additive panels are dosed in print on all eight, each set to its own figures, and moisture is not declared on any of them.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

382.5 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

14%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

46.7%

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

32.7%

Carbs

46.9%

Veg

1.7%

Oils

12%

Other

6.7%

Pricing & size