Happy Dog Sensible: Salmon & Rabbit (Ireland) review

1. Rabbit 50.8
2. Low Fat Duck 49.2
3. Duck Grain-Free (Piemonte) 49.1
4. Iberico Pork Grain-Free (Andalucia) 47.8
5. Salmon 46.2
6. Lamb 45.3
7. Lamb Grain-Free (Greece) 43.2
8. Duck Grain-Free (France) 43.1
9. Ostrich (Africa) 40.5
10. Horse (Montana) 38.0
11. Vegetarian (India) 36.7
12. 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.

• OatLeads the list.
• Salmon meal13%
• Barley, maize
• Rabbit protein8%
• Potato
• Oils and fatsSource not named.
• Beet pulp, hydrolysed protein, haemoglobinThe haemoglobin names no animal.
• Apple pomace, dried whole egg1.1% pomace
• Potassium chloride, yeasts, salt, seaweed, linseed, mussel meat0.15% down to 0.05%
• Milk thistle, yucca and herbsherbs 0.17%

Vitamins A, D3, E and the B group listed without amounts.

Oils and fats and the hydrolysed protein go unnamed, which matters when ruling a species in or out.

Grain

Oat, barley, maize

Canada reaches the same animals on potato

Energy

352 kcal per 100g

326 to 370.5 across the range

Price per kilo

£4.24

Joint lowest in the range

The grain-inclusive route to salmon and rabbit.

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.

Price per kilo

£4.24 (RRP)

Pack

1kg, 12.5kg, 12.5kg x 2

A 15kg dog eats

210 g a day

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.89

Middle of the market for a dry food, a little more than the analysis alone earns.