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Happy Dog Vet Diet: Renal review

We don't put a score on this food. It is a veterinary diet, formulated for a diagnosed condition and meant to be fed on a vet's advice. Your vet has seen your dog and we have not, so a number from us could only pull you towards their advice or away from it, and neither of those is ours to do. What follows is what the label declares, what the analysis works out at, and where to buy it, with no judgement attached to any of it.

Happy Dog sells these seven kibbles through its VET Diet line, each named for the condition the maker aims it at. The list runs from Adipositas and Hepatic through Intestinal, Renal and Struvite to Urinary Low Purine, for dogs already working to a vet's plan.

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Flavour

Seven kibbles in Happy Dog's VET Diet line, each named for the condition the maker aims it at, from Adipositas to Urinary Low Purine. They are meant for dogs already on a vet's plan. What follows is what each label declares and what its analysis works out at.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs already working to a vet's plan for one of the seven named conditions
Dogs whose appetite has gone quiet, since every recipe carries a hydrolysed liver coating
Owners who want the additive panel itemised. Each variety prints its own
A meat-free option in Urinary Low Purine, where egg is the only animal ingredient

Worth watching

Some varieties name the species and some print poultry protein or meat meal, so check the one you are handed
No moisture or calorie figure on any bag; feed to the vet's instruction first

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, on a vet's advice. Which of the seven your dog needs is named at the consultation.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

What's in it

Maize, rice flour, potato flakesThe base leads, the reverse of the usual order.
Poultry fat
Meat meal8%Species unnamed, which matters if your dog avoids a particular animal.
Salmon meal4%
Dried whole egg2%
Carrots, hydrolysed liver, sunflower oil
Potassium chloride, canola oil, calcium carbonate, yeasts, sodium chloride
Seaweed, linseed, mussel meat0.15% for linseed, 0.04% for mussel
Herb list: milk thistle to thyme0.16% in total

Vitamins A, D3, E and the B group with iron, copper, zinc, manganese, iodine and selenium.

Meat meal leaves the animal unnamed.

Named ingredients

Maize, rice flour, potato flakes, poultry fat, meat meal (8 %), salmon meal (4 %), dried whole egg (2 %), carrots*, hydrolysed liver, sunflower oil, potassium chloride, canola oil, calcium carbonate, yeasts*, sodium chloride, seaweed*, linseed (0.15 %), mussel meat* (0.04 %), milk thistle, yeasts* (extract), artichoke, dandelion (0.015 %), ginger, birch leaves (0.015 %), stinging nettle, camomile, coriander, rosemary, sage, liquorice root, thyme (total dried products from the processing of herbs: 0.16%); * dried

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 17.4%; The lowest in the line
Fat, dry matter: 17.4%; The same figure as the protein
Energy: 381 kcal per 100g; The highest in the line
Calcium, dry matter: 0.43%; The lowest of the seven

Protein and minerals restricted together is what this diet is for, and how far is a clinical judgement.

Six of the seven follow one house pattern: a cereal or potato base, poultry fat as the added fat, dried carrots, potassium and sodium chloride, then a fine tail of botanicals. Hydrolysed liver is on all seven, there to keep a therapeutic kibble worth eating. Urinary Low Purine sits apart, with no meat at all.

Species naming varies: some print chicken or salmon, others poultry protein or meat meal. None declares moisture and the bags print no calorie figure, so dry matter and energy here are estimates. The vitamin and trace element panels are itemised variety by variety.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

381 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

16%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

17.4%

Fat

17.4%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

4.3%

Carbs

58.7%

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

70%

Veg

3.8%

Oils

6.4%

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size