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Happy Dog Professional: Puppy Mini Lamb & Rice review

Name: Happy Dog Professional: Puppy Mini Lamb & Rice
Brand: Happy Dog

42.9/100Average

DryPuppy

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

42.9/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceGood

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

Puppy

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Lamb

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 (rice, maize, maize flour)16% riceRice named with its share.
Meat and animal derivatives (lamb protein, meat meal)15% lambLamb in print, though the meat meal names no animal.
Oils and fatsUnsourced.
Derivatives of vegetable origin (apple pomace), minerals, yeasts
Mussel powder0.04%
Seeds, vegetables, algae, milk derivatives
Fish and fish derivatives, vegetable protein extract, eggs, fruitsFish, despite the lamb on the front.

L-tryptophan at 1000 mg per kilo, an amino acid used to take the edge off an unsettled dog.

Crude fibre is missing from the analysis, so there is no dry-matter conversion, and calcium is not declared.

Named ingredients

Cereals(including rice (16 %), maize, maize flour), meat and animal derivatives*(including lamb protein* (15 %), meat meal), oils and fats, derivatives ofvegetable origin* (including apple pomace*), minerals, yeasts*, molluscs andcrustaceans* (including mussel powder (0.04 %)), seeds, vegetables*, algae*, milkand milk derivatives*, fish and fish derivatives*, vegetable protein extract*, eggsand egg derivatives*, fruits*, *) dried.

Against the range

Meat: Lamb protein 15%; Poultry on every other recipe
Life stage: Small-breed puppies; Adults on the other seven
Extra: L-tryptophan; On no other recipe

The only lamb and the only growth bag on this shelf.

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

388 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

15%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

16.3%

Ash

7.6%

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

17.1%

Carbs

16%

Veg

6.2%

Oils

23.5%

Other

37.2%

Pricing & size