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Happy Dog Vet Diet: Urinary Low Purine 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

What's in it

Potato flakes49%
Potato protein20%Carries the protein in place of meat.
Sunflower oil, rapeseed oil
Beet molasses escalope (sugar-free)An odd translation of the desugared beet fibre the rest of the line calls beet pulp.
Pea flakes4%
Dried whole eggs4%The only animal ingredient on the list.
Liver hydrolysate, apple pomace
Monocalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, sodium chloride

Taurine at 2000 mg, L-carnitine at 900 mg and L-tryptophan at 1800 mg per kilo, added back into a recipe with no meat to supply them.

No meat at all. For a purine restricted diet that is the point.

Named ingredients

Potato flakes (49%), potato protein * (20%), sunflower oil, beet molasses escalope * (sugar-free), pea flakes (4%), dried whole eggs (4%), rapeseed oil, liver hydrolysate, apple pomace *, monocalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, sodium chloride; *) dried

Against the range

Meat: None; egg is the only animal ingredient; All six others carry meat or fish
Protein source: Potato protein, 20%; Poultry, chicken, meat meal or rice protein elsewhere
Fat, dry matter: 16.3%; 7.5% to 17.4% across the line

The one recipe in the line that sits outside the house pattern entirely.

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

370.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

22.5%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

24.5%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

5.4%

Carbs

51.1%

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

7.4%

Carbs

81%

Veg

1.3%

Oils

8.8%

Other

1.5%

Pricing & size