Natural Greatness Ultra Premium Adult: Rabbit Recipe review

Both recipes come out in our Good band, level with the middle of the adult dry category. Most of that work is done by the dehydrated meat opening both lists, the joint pair in print and the vitamin and mineral panel dosed line by line. Plant protein in the middle of both recipes keeps them from climbing further, and the turkey adds to that by bundling several birds under one percentage.

Ingredients, as declared: Dehydrated rabbit meat (26%), Peas, Potato, Fresh rabbit meat (10%), Beet pulp, Hydrolysed rabbit (3%), Pea protein, Yeast, Linseed, Potato protein, Chicken oil (2%), Fish oil, Mixed fruit (apple and cranberry), Mixed vegetables (tomato and spinach), Carrot, Pumpkin, Seaweed, Inulin (FOS 0.1%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS 0.1%), Mineral Substances, Yucca schidigera, Glucosamine (900 mg/kg), Chondroitin (200 mg/kg), Rosemary, Parsley.

Both recipes open with dehydrated meat rather than fresh, which is the more honest way round for a kibble. Dried meat is weighed with the water already out of it, so the printed percentage is more or less what reaches the finished food. Fresh meat headlines shrink in the oven. The rabbit adds fresh rabbit at 10% behind its 26% dried, the turkey adds fresh turkey at 10% behind a dried block of 15% turkey and 14% duck and chicken.

Rabbit is the more interesting choice of the two. Dog food uses it rarely, and a great many dogs have never tasted it. That is exactly what makes it useful when the everyday meats have caused trouble. Hydrolysed rabbit at 3% joins the fresh and dried entries, so the animal side of that recipe stays on one species from top to bottom. The oils are the caveat. Chicken oil at 2% and fish oil both appear further down, so poultry and fish are not fully absent from this bag.

The turkey recipe is the richer build, at 28.0% protein and 16.0% fat against 27.0% and 9.0% for the rabbit, with carbohydrate at 40.8% of dry matter where the rabbit runs to 49.0%. Turkey liver hydrolysate at 2.5% is there to keep a small dog interested in its bowl. Dehydrated salmon at 1%, salmon oil at 0.75% and dehydrated whole egg at 0.3% round out the protein sources.

The supporting cast is the same on both labels and it is a sensible one. Linseed brings plant omega 3s and beet pulp supplies gentle fibre. FOS and MOS at 0.1% each are prebiotics that feed the gut bacteria a dog wants to keep. Yucca schidigera works on stool odour. The rabbit recipe also carries seaweed, carrot, pumpkin, apple, cranberry, tomato and spinach through the middle of the list, which is a fuller plate of fruit and vegetables than the turkey offers.

Taurine, the amino acid behind heart muscle, is dosed on both labels: 850 mg on the rabbit and 970 mg on the turkey. On a grain free label that is a welcome sight. The joint pair is only given a dose on the rabbit, at 900 mg/kg glucosamine and 200 mg/kg chondroitin; the turkey names both without a figure. Zinc arrives as the oxide and selenium as sodium selenite. Of the two selenium forms permitted in Europe that is the plainer one, and it is what most of the shelf uses.

Rabbit and only rabbit on the meat side, dehydrated at 26%, fresh at 10% and hydrolysed at 3%, aimed at medium dogs from adulthood into their senior years. At 9.0% fat this is the leaner of the pair, and its joint doses are real ones at 900 mg/kg glucosamine and 200 mg/kg chondroitin. It also carries a fruit and vegetable tail the turkey does without, running to apple, cranberry, tomato, spinach, carrot, pumpkin and seaweed.

The rabbit recipe is sold in 2kg, 6kg and 10kg bags and the turkey in 2kg and 10kg.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would get through about 245 grams a day of the rabbit or about 215 grams of the turkey. The figure behind that is around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). The rabbit label asks 258 grams for that dog, the turkey label 150 grams for a quiet one. Between the two figures, go by the shape of the dog.