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Happy Dog Sensible: Sea Fish (Karibik) review

Name: Happy Dog Sensible: Sea Fish (Karibik)
Brand: Happy Dog

36.2/100Average

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

36.2/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

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

Main protein

Sea Fish

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
Fish meal from sea fish18%Fish is the one animal named.
Oils and fatsSource not named.
Potato protein
Hydrolysed proteinSource not named.
Beet pulp, apple pomace
Sodium chloride, yeast extract, yucca

DL-methionine at 3500 mg per kilo, an amino acid that also acidifies the urine, with vitamins A and D3 and dosed trace elements.

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

Named ingredients

Potato*, fish meal from sea fish (18 %), oils and fats, potato protein*, hydrolysed protein, beet pulp* (desugared), apple pomace*, sodium chloride, yeasts* (extract), yucca schidigera*. *dried.

Against the range

Animal: Sea fish only; Land meats on most others
Fish named: Sea fish, species not given; Salmon named on Canada and Ireland

If land meats are off the menu for your dog, this is the recipe to reach for.

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

348.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

23%

Fat

12%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

13%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

51.7%

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

18%

Carbs

59.4%

Veg

2.6%

Oils

12.1%

Other

Pricing & size