Pero

Pero Working & Sporting: Working Dog Active review

Name: Pero Working & Sporting: Working Dog Active
Brand: Pero

33.1/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

On this range the name on the bag matters more than the range. The Lamb & Rice Performance recipe names its animal at 39%, writes out a full list and reaches our Good band. Working Dog Active sits in Average and the other two rations in Poor, all three written in the broad language of the working shelf.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working and sporting dogs on the lamb recipe, with fat at 15%
A dog kept to one meat: lamb, lamb tallow and lamb gravy are the only animal entries in the lamb recipe
Glucosamine and chondroitin, printed in the lamb recipe beside seaweed and cranberry
Dogs who do fine on rice and barley
A yard feeding several dogs a simple, familiar ration

Worth watching

No species named anywhere on the three Working Dog rations, so no elimination diet on them
Maintenance at 6% fat and Premiwm at 7% are modest for a dog that works
Fish meal in Working Dog Active, so that one is not fish free

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

How this scores

How we score

33.1/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyPoor

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Every recipe is listed for adults. If your dog genuinely works all day, check the fat figure first, and expect to feed well above the label's amounts.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Lamb 53.4
Working Dog Active 33.1
Working Dog Premiwm 24.7
Working Dog Maintenance 23.4

Four recipes across Good and Average and Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

The spread across this range comes down almost entirely to how much each label is willing to say.

What's in it

Extruded cerealsGrain, unnamed.
Meat productsNo animal named.
Flaked cereals
Animal fatsSource unnamed.
Pasta
Fish mealThe one entry that says what it is, and it brings marine oils.
Vegetable oils, linseed oil
Vitamins, minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E and copper, dosed, with a list of B vitamins and a yucca extract for stool odour.

Contains fish meal, so it is not a fish-free ration.

Named ingredients

Extruded Cereals, Meat Products, Flaked Cereals, Animal Fats, Pasta, Fish Meal, Vegetable Oils, Linseed Oil, Vitamins, Minerals

Against the range

Protein and fat, declared: 25% and 10%; Strongest of the three Working Dog rations.
Named animal: Fish meal; None on Maintenance or Premiwm; lamb on the Performance recipe.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 51.5%; 41.3% on the lamb recipe, 60.8% on Maintenance.

Of the three Working Dog rations, this one carries the most fat for a working day.

Only the Lamb & Rice Performance recipe writes its ingredients out by name, and every animal entry on it is lamb. The three Working Dog rations use the trade categories of the working shelf: cereals, meat and animal derivatives, oils and fats. Active adds fish meal, pasta and linseed oil to its list.

What varies most is fat. The lamb recipe declares 15%, Active 10%, Premiwm 7% and Maintenance 6%. None of the four prints a moisture figure, so every dry matter reading rests on the standard 8% kibble assumption.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

338.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

51.5%

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

29.5%

Carbs

61.7%

Oils

7.7%

Other

Pricing & size