Happy Dog

Happy Dog Sport Adult review

Name: Happy Dog Sport Adult
Brand: Happy Dog

64.1/100Good

DryAdult

A high-energy kibble for dogs that finish dinner and go straight back out, in our Good band. The analysis is leaner in starch than most kibbles manage, and the small print holds a working dog's toolkit, L-carnitine included. The meat, though, is never pinned to a species.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working and sporting dogs on a heavy weekly workload
Medium and giant breeds, the two sizes the label is written around
Dogs that drop condition easily, at 387 kcal in every 100g
Owners who want the sport extras printed, with L-carnitine at 200 mg per kilo

Worth watching

Poultry never becomes a named bird, so a strict elimination trial cannot be anchored here
Fish meal at 4%, half of it salmon, so there is no fish-free reading

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

How this scores

How we score

64.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium and giant adults. The label puts a 15kg dog at 190 grams a day, so check the workload and let the waistline decide the rest.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium, Giant

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Happy Dog Sport Adult 64.1

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Naming accounts for almost all of the gap to a higher reading; where the numbers can be checked, it earns its band comfortably.

What's in it

Animal proteins, dried17.5% poultry, 4% lambDried, so the figures carry straight into the kibble. Which bird is never said.
Maize flour, maizeMost of the carrying.
Poultry fat
Rice flour, barleyBarley cooks down easily and brings fibre.
Hemoglobin, greaves, liver hydrolysateBlood protein, rendered protein and a smell that gets a dog across the room. Genuine animal protein, no species named.
Fish meal4%Half of it salmon meal.
Sunflower oil, rapeseed oilSensible picks.
Beet molasses pulp, apple pomace, yeast, salts, seaweed
Flaxseed, dried whole egg, mussel meat0.15%, 0.1%, 0.02%
Dry herbs0.15% in totalMilk thistle to thyme. Seasoning.

L-carnitine at 200 mg per kilo, a fair find on a Sport bag, with every mineral dosed line by line, zinc and iron both at 105 mg.

No moisture declared, so the dry matter figures rest on the standard 8% assumption.

Named ingredients

Animal proteins * (17.5% poultry, 4% lamb), maize flour, maize, poultry fat, rice flour, barley, hemoglobin *, fish meal (4%, of which 50% salmon meal), greaves, liver hydrolysate, sunflower oil, beet molasses pulp * (desugared), Apple pomace *, rapeseed oil, potassium chloride, yeast *, sodium chloride, seaweed *, flaxseed (0.15%), dried whole egg (0.1%), mussel meat * (0.02%), yeast * (extracted), milk thistle, artichoke, Dandelion, ginger (0.012%), birch leaves, nettle, chamomile, coriander, rosemary, sage, licorice root, thyme, (total dry herbs: 0.15%); *) dried.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

387.2 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

16%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

6.5%

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

17.4%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.1%

Carbs

42.4%

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

43%

Carbs

49.7%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

5.4%

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size