Pero

Pero Working & Sporting: Working Dog Maintenance review

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

23.4/100Poor

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

23.4/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyPoor

ValuePoor

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

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

CerealsNo grain named.
Meat and animal derivativesCovers anything from good meat to the plainest by-products, and the mill can change it without changing the label.
Oils and fatsSource unnamed.
Minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium as sulphates and selenite.

Fat at 6% is modest for a dog that works all day.

Named ingredients

Cereals, Meat and Animal Derivatives, Oils and Fats, Minerals

Against the range

Protein and fat, declared: 19% and 6%; Lightest in the range; the lamb recipe is 27% and 15%.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 60.8%; Highest in the range.

This reads more like a resting ration than a working one.

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

313.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

19%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

20.7%

Fat

6.5%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

60.8%

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

32.5%

Carbs

50%

Oils

10.6%

Other

6.9%

Pricing & size