Millies Wolfheart Obedience Mix review

Our scoring puts Obedience Mix in the Good band. The typical adult dry food shares that band, and two figures put this one ahead of it. Protein reaches 32.1% of dry matter and estimated carbohydrate 38.0%, comfortably under the 46.2% that is typical. Transparency reads Outstanding, with protein and processing and nutritional balance both Good, on the strength of fresh fish leading the list and every meat entry carrying a percentage next to it.

Ingredients, as declared: Freshly Prepared Salmon (20%), Freshly Prepared Trout (15%), Sweet Potato (14%), Dried Fish (11.5%), Potato, Dried Lamb (9.5%), Salmon Oil (5.5%), Chickpeas, Freshly Prepared Lamb (3.5%), Freshly Prepared Beef Tripe (3.5%), Tapioca, Salmon Gravy (1.5%), Tomato Pomace, Minerals, Joint Pack (Glucosamine 177.5 mg/kg, Methylsulfonylmethane 177.5 mg/kg, Chondroitin Sulphate 125 mg/kg), Mixed Herbs, Dried Apple, Burdock Root, Dried Camomile, Dried Carrot, Dried Cranberry, Dried Dandelion, Aniseed & Fenugreek, Dried Seaweed, Dried Peppermint, Yucca Extract

Fish does the heavy lifting. Freshly prepared salmon at 20% and trout at 15% head the list. Fresh meat is mostly water going in, so the dried fish at 11.5% quietly delivers the most protein to the finished kibble. Dried lamb at 9.5% and freshly prepared lamb at 3.5% add a land meat behind them. Protein converts to 32.1% of dry matter and fat to 15.8%.

Beef tripe at 3.5% is the entry that changes how a dog behaves at the bowl. It is a small share by weight and an enormous one by smell, which is exactly why it is there. Put it in front of a dog that has been picking at dinner and the picking usually stops. Salmon gravy at 1.5% works the same corner of the recipe.

Salmon oil is generous here at 5.5%. It brings marine omega 3 ready to use, so nothing has to be converted from a plant source. Owners tend to see it first in the coat and skin, and it usually takes a few weeks to show.

Sweet potato at 14% leads the starch, with potato, chickpeas and tapioca alongside it. Estimated carbohydrate finishes at 38.0% of dry matter, on the lighter side for a dry food. Ash converts to 11.4% of dry matter, which follows from the bone that arrives with the dried fish and lamb, and calcium at 2.5% of dry matter comes from the same place.

Halfway down the list the joint pack turns up with its figures printed: glucosamine and MSM at 177.5 mg/kg each, with chondroitin sulphate at 125 mg/kg. Every trace mineral carries a figure too: zinc at 48 mg, iron at 48 mg, manganese at 34 mg and iodine at 0.96 mg per kilo. Yucca extract and tomato pomace close things out, and behind them the usual trace level tail: apple, burdock root and camomile, carrot and cranberry, dandelion, peppermint and seaweed.

£5.18 a kilo, in 700g, 5kg and 14kg bags.

About 227 grams a day suits a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, which comes to £1.18, working from roughly 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). For a dog between 15kg and 20kg the bag suggests 175 to 240 grams. Let condition rather than the chart break the tie.