Laughing Dog

Laughing Dog Naturally Complete Dog Food: Salmon review

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

64.9/100Good

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

64.9/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

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

Salmon

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

Salmon: salmon meal 22%, freshly prepared salmon 20%42%The only fish recipe in the range.
Sweet potato34%The most of the three.
Beet pulp, linseed
Pea4%
Salmon oilMarine omega 3, which a dog uses most directly.
Salmon gravy
Seaweed0.2%
MOS, FOS, yucca, parsley, citrus extract0.15% down to 0.005%
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

Salmon (42%) (22% Salmon Meal, 20% Freshly Prepared Salmon), Sweet Potato (34%), Beet Pulp, Linseed, Pea (4%), Salmon Oil, Salmon Gravy, Botanicals (0.2% Seaweed, 0.15% MOS, 0.15% FOS, 0.015% Yucca, 0.015% Parsley and 0.005% Citrus Extract), Minerals.

Against the range

Meat: Salmon; Chicken and lamb on the others.
Fish oil: Salmon oil; None on the two land meats.
Ash: 12.0%; Between the chicken and the lamb.
Band: Good; Excellent on the other two.

The pick for a dog that does best on fish.

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

357 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

12%

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

13%

Carbs

40.2%

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

44.8%

Carbs

48.1%

Veg

1.1%

Oils

2.1%

Other

3.9%

Pricing & size