Happy Dog

Happy Dog Sensible: Horse (Montana) review

Name: Happy Dog Sensible: Horse (Montana)
Brand: Happy Dog

38/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

Twelve limited-ingredient kibbles, each built around one animal, from duck and lamb to horse, ostrich and rabbit. The range sits in our Average band, with the Canada rabbit and lamb alone reaching Good. Choose by the protein your dog needs.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Exclusion diets: Montana, Africa and Karibik each keep to one animal
A protein your dog has never met, with horse, ostrich and rabbit on offer
Grain-free feeding on France, Montana and Africa
Medium and larger breeds
Calories eased back on Toscana, with fat at 7.5%
Vegetarian households, on India

Worth watching

Oils and fats, hydrolysed protein and hydrolysed liver all unnamed
Greece and Andalucia are named grain free while rice heads both lists
India has egg and milk, so it is not vegan
Fish in several recipes, salmon meal leading Canada and Ireland

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

How this scores

How we score

38/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyPoor

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult medium and larger dogs. Portion by your dog's condition, not the scoop, and read the full list of whichever country you pick.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium, Giant

The score, in context

Rabbit 50.8
Low Fat Duck 49.2
Duck Grain-Free (Piemonte) 49.1
Iberico Pork Grain-Free (Andalucia) 47.8
Salmon 46.2
Lamb 45.3
Lamb Grain-Free (Greece) 43.2
Duck Grain-Free (France) 43.1
Ostrich (Africa) 40.5
Horse (Montana) 38.0
Vegetarian (India) 36.7
Sea Fish (Karibik) 36.2

12 recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Not much daylight between the twelve: the Canada recipe edges ahead, and Karibik and India sit furthest back.

What's in it

Potato
Horse protein15%One of the few novel proteins on any British shelf.
Potato proteinLifts protein without a second animal.
Oils and fatsSource not named.
Beet pulp, apple pomace
Hydrolysed proteinSource not named.
Sodium chloride, yeast extract

No additive panel is printed for this recipe.

Named ingredients

Potato*, horse protein* (15 %), potato protein*, oils and fats, beet pulp* (desugared), hydrolysed protein, apple pomace*, sodium chloride, yeasts* (extract). *dried.

Against the range

Animal: Horse; Duck, pork, lamb, ostrich, rabbit, fish elsewhere
Calcium, dry matter: 2.07%; Highest in the range
Price per kilo: £6.06; Top of the range

For a dog that has reacted to everything usual, horse is about as unfamiliar as it gets.

Twelve recipes, each named after a place and built around one animal or, in India, none. The plainest, France, Montana, Africa and Karibik, run to eight to ten entries: a starch, the named animal, a fat, beet pulp, apple pomace, salt and yeast extract. The rest add seaweed, linseed, mussel meat and herbs.

Potato carries the grain-free recipes, often with potato protein to lift protein without a second animal. Oils and fats, hydrolysed protein and hydrolysed liver go unnamed throughout. Carbohydrate estimates between 45.1% and 56.5% of dry matter, and no label prints a moisture figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

330 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

21%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

22.8%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

53.2%

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

15%

Carbs

69.4%

Veg

2.5%

Oils

7.6%

Other

5.5%

Pricing & size