Hill's Prescription Diet w/d Wet Dog Food with Chicken review

Ingredients, as declared: Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 8%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, eggs and egg derivatives, minerals, seeds. Carbohydrate sources: Maize, barley flour, rice.

Meat and animal derivatives lead, with chicken given as 8% within that entry, and cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, eggs and egg derivatives, minerals and seeds follow behind. The carbohydrate sources get a line of their own, named as maize, barley flour and rice.

One absence is worth pointing out. There is no oils and fats entry at all, so the 2.7% fat in the analysis is coming from the meat and the egg rather than from anything poured in afterwards. On the declared moisture that fat converts to 10.9% of dry matter.

Crude fibre is 3.7% as fed, which becomes 15.0% of dry matter once the declared 75.3% moisture is removed, and protein reads 5.0%, or 20.2% dry. Carbohydrate is estimated at 12.0% as fed and 48.6% of dry matter, with energy at 82 kcal per 100g. Thinning the calories and pushing fibre up is the entire idea behind a food like this; whether your dog should be on that idea is for the vet to settle.

Calcium comes out at 0.81% of the dry matter, and the mineral additions are listed with figures against them, iron 16.3mg, iodine 0.5mg, copper 2.7mg, manganese 3.6mg and zinc 41.8mg.

Because the food is so dilute the bowls are large, and the guide asks for 103 grams a day at 1kg, 470 grams at 10kg, 605 grams at 20kg and 1205 grams at 50kg. The recipe holds both chicken and egg, worth knowing if either one is on your dog's avoid list. The final word on all of it stays with the vet who recommended the diet.

It comes in 370g packs. On the label's table a 15kg dog would work through roughly 1018 grams a day.