Laughing Dog

Laughing Dog Naturally Complete Dog Food: Chicken review

Name: Laughing Dog Naturally Complete Dog Food: Chicken
Brand: Laughing Dog

72.9/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

Two Excellent kibbles and a Good salmon, each a single named animal over sweet potato with very little else in the bag. The labels print the meal and fresh shares separately, so you can see which part of the meat headline survives the oven.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Single-species diets; no recipe names a second animal
Grain-free homes, with sweet potato carrying all the starch
Rotation between three recipes built the same way
Dogs kept off fish, who have two land meats with no fish oil on the label
Owners who read the meal and fresh split closely

Worth watching

No moisture figure, so dry-matter numbers assume the usual 8% for kibble
Bone ash from the meat meal: 13.5% in the lamb and 12.0% in the salmon
No calcium printed on any of the three, and a zinc chelate from unsourced protein hydrolysates

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

How this scores

How we score

72.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Ask the maker for the calcium figure if you need it, as none of the labels prints one.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 72.9
Lamb 71.2
Salmon 64.9

Three recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The chicken and lamb finish level with the salmon a band behind, close enough that the animal your dog suits should decide it.

What's in it

Chicken: chicken meal, freshly prepared chicken42% (21% each)The meal share survives into the kibble; the fresh share shrinks in the oven.
Sweet potato33%The only starch.
Beet pulp
Rapeseed oil, chicken gravyRapeseed is the added oil.
Linseed4%Plant omega 3.
Pea
MOS, FOS0.15% eachThe prebiotic pair.
Yucca, turmeric, citrus extract, marigold0.015% down to 0.004%Trace level, each one printed.
Minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E, zinc as both sulphate and the more readily absorbed chelate, and selenium as sodium selenite plus an organic yeast form.

Named ingredients

Chicken (42%) (21% Chicken Meal, 21% Freshly Prepared Chicken*), Sweet Potato (33%), Beet Pulp, Rapeseed Oil, Chicken Gravy, Linseed (4%), Pea, Botanicals (0.15% MOS, 0.15% FOS, 0.015% Yucca, 0.01% Turmeric, 0.005% Citrus Extract and 0.004% Marigold), Minerals. *Minimum 70% Fresh Chicken.

Against the range

Protein, as fed: 28.0%; 26% on the lamb and salmon.
Ash: 10.0%; The lightest; 12.0% salmon, 13.5% lamb.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 41.3%; The highest of the three; the lamb is 38.5%.

The leanest mineral load and the most protein of the three.

Each recipe leads with one named animal at 42% to 45%, split in print between a meal share and a freshly prepared share, and no second animal appears anywhere. Sweet potato is the only starch, at 31% to 34%, with peas and beet pulp behind it, and carbohydrate converts to 38.5% to 41.3% of dry matter.

Every botanical carries a figure, the mineral panel is itemised with zinc in sulphate and chelate forms, and preservation is by tocopherols. None of the three declares moisture or calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

360 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

41.3%

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

75.2%

Carbs

22.1%

Other

2.7%

Pricing & size