Laughing Dog

Laughing Dog Naturally Complete Dog Food: Lamb review

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

71.2/100Excellent

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

71.2/100Excellent

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

Lamb

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

Lamb: lamb meal 25%, freshly prepared lamb 20%45%The largest meat share and the largest meal share in the range.
Sweet potato31%
Beet pulp
Linseed4%Plant omega 3.
Lamb gravy, pea, rapeseed oil
MOS, FOS0.15% each
Yucca, thyme, parsley, citrus extract0.015% down to 0.005%Yucca is aimed at stool odour.
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.

Ash reads 13.5%, the highest of the three, from the bone that travels with lamb meal.

Named ingredients

Lamb (45%) (25% Lamb Meal, 20% Freshly Prepared Lamb*), Sweet Potato (31%), Beet Pulp, Linseed (4%), Lamb Gravy, Pea, Rapeseed Oil, Botanicals (0.15% MOS, 0.15% FOS, 0.015% Yucca, 0.015% Thyme, 0.015% Parsley and 0.005% Citrus Extract), Minerals. *Minimum 70% Fresh Lamb.

Against the range

Meat: 45%; 42% on the chicken and salmon.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 38.5%; The lowest; up to 41.3% on the chicken.
Sweet potato: 31%; 33% and 34% on the others.

The most meat and the least starch in the range.

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

26%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

13.5%

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

14.7%

Carbs

38.5%

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

76.7%

Carbs

20.7%

Other

2.7%

Pricing & size