Pooch & Mutt

Pooch & Mutt Veterinary Gastrointestinal Dry Food review

We don't put a score on this food. It is a veterinary diet, formulated for a diagnosed condition and meant to be fed on a vet's advice. Your vet has seen your dog and we have not, so a number from us could only pull you towards their advice or away from it, and neither of those is ours to do. What follows is what the label declares, what the analysis works out at, and where to buy it, with no judgement attached to any of it.

Pooch & Mutt sells this one as its Veterinary Gastrointestinal dry food. It is a herring and hydrolysed salmon kibble, offered for dogs whose digestion is being handled alongside a vet.

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A veterinary gastrointestinal diet, meant to be fed on a vet's advice, so we give it no score. Fish is the protein: herring first, then salmon in hydrolysed form. The label names everything and prints a percentage on nearly every line.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose digestion is being handled with a vet
Puppies, adults and seniors alike
Owners who want each prebiotic and fibre printed with a dose
Salts for a gut recipe listed openly: sodium chloride at 1%, potassium chloride at 0.4%

Worth watching

Chicken fat at 10% puts chicken in the bowl, though no chicken meat appears
Hydrolysis does not take the salmon out; raise both entries with your vet if your dog is coming off a protein

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size, fed under a vet. Whether it suits your dog is settled with the vet overseeing the case.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Herring

What's in it

Herring protein26%Leads the protein.
Yellow peas25%
Hydrolysed salmon protein12%Cut into fragments, but still salmon.
Buckwheat11%
Chicken fat10%Puts chicken in the bowl with no chicken meat on the list.
Dried apple pulp, salmon oil, brewers yeast7.6%, 3%, 2%
Sodium chloride, potassium chloride1%, 0.4%Printed as ingredients, to put back what a dog loses.
Pea protein, dried algae, egg shellsalgae and egg shells 0.5% eachEgg shells are the named calcium source.
Psyllium, mannan-oligosaccharides, beta-glucans, fructo-oligosaccharides0.5% down to 0.02%The fibre work is done here, so the low crude fibre figure is no surprise.
Mojave yucca, sea buckthorn, Lactobacillus helveticus (inactivated)The culture is inactivated by design.

Chicken fat and hydrolysed salmon are both on the list. If your dog is coming off poultry or fish, put them to your vet.

Named ingredients

Herring Protein (26 %), Yellow Peas (25 %), Hydrolysed Salmon Protein (12 %), Buckwheat (11 %), Chicken Fat (10 %), Dried Apple Pulp (7.6 %), Salmon Oil (3 %), Brewers Yeast (2 %), Sodium Chloride (1 %), Pea Protein, Dried Algae (Ascophyllum nodosum, 0.5 %), Egg Shells (a source of Calcium, 0.5 %), Psyllium Husks & Seeds (0.5 %), Potassium Chloride (0.4 %), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.025 %), β-glucans (0.02 %), Fructo-oligosaccharides (0.02 %), Mojave Yucca (0.018 %), Dried Sea Buckthorn (0.015 %), Lactobacillus helveticus HA-122 inactivated (15x10⁹ cells/kg).

Against the range

A herring and hydrolysed salmon kibble with a percentage beside almost every entry. Yellow peas and buckwheat carry the starch, the salts are printed as ingredients, and the fermentable fibres are dosed. Calcium converts to 0.78% of dry matter, from egg shells.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

385.2 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.1%

Ash

5.2%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

28.9%

Fat

16.7%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

5.8%

Carbs

46.3%

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

38.3%

Carbs

36.7%

Veg

7.9%

Oils

13%

Other

4.1%

Pricing & size