ProDog Complete Raw Dog Food: Rabbit review

Raw is the hardest field on our scoring, since the format starts with named meat and rarely needs to lean on anything else. Its midpoint already occupies our Outstanding band. All eleven of these recipes reach it too. Protein and processing, transparency and value read Outstanding on every one, and nutritional balance is Outstanding on all but the lamb, which few ranges manage across so many labels. The Beef and Tripe edges the range, but the spread from first to last is slight enough to set aside. What genuinely separates these is the animal on the front and how rich the mince turns out.

Ingredients, as declared: 80% Rabbit Meat (Includes approx 10% ground rabbit bone), 18.5% Seasonal British Vegetables & Berries (10% green veg, 7.5% carrots, 1% blueberries), 0.5% Wheatgrass, 0.5% Irish sea kelp, 0.5% Atlantic salmon oil

The construction repeats across all eleven labels, which is exactly what makes the range easy to rotate through. A named British meat leads with its ground bone counted inside the percentage, and offal follows where the recipe is built around it. A seasonal vegetable and berry share takes somewhere between a tenth and a fifth of the mix, then kelp and salmon oil close the list. Nothing arrives as a category, and almost nothing goes unquantified.

Ground bone runs at around 10% of the meat in most of these recipes, and in a food with no added mineral list it is the bone supplying the calcium. Where the analysis lets us read it, calcium converts to between 1.03% and 6.46% of dry matter, a genuinely wide spread that tracks how much bone and how much water each recipe carries. The Lamb and Offal sits at the top of that range, so a dog moving onto it is worth watching for a firmer stool over the first week.

Offal is where a raw recipe earns its micronutrition, and ProDog names it in its own right. Liver and kidney carry declared percentages in the beef, lamb, pork and turkey offal recipes. Hearts appear in the Pork and Offal and the Turkey and Offal, and lung and trachea turn up in the beef ones. Liver in particular is among the densest natural stores of vitamin A and iron, and of the B group too. That is precisely why a recipe carrying it needs less help from a premix.

Two recipes lean on green tripe, the Beef and Tripe at 45% and the Chicken and Tripe at 15%. Tripe is the unwashed stomach lining of a grazing animal, pungent in a way nothing else in the freezer manages. It is one of the surest ways to talk a hesitant dog back into its dinner. It is also where the Chicken and Tripe picks up beef, which matters if beef is the thing being avoided.

The tail of each list is consistent and worth reading properly. Iodine and trace minerals come from Irish sea kelp, and the long chain omega 3 fats come from Atlantic salmon oil. Wheatgrass appears at 0.5% in the leaner recipes and ground pumpkin seeds at 1.5% in the offal-heavy ones. None of it is a large inclusion, but in a range with no synthetic premix these are the entries carrying that load, and the maker is upfront that no additives panel is published.

The numbers read the way raw should. Protein converts to between 32.4% and 57.4% of dry matter and fat to between 20.7% and 51.8%, with carbohydrate estimating at zero in most recipes and never rising above 21.4%. That top carbohydrate figure belongs to the Beef and Chicken, and it is an estimate by difference, not a starch in the bowl, since its ingredients list carries no cereal at all.

Rabbit at 80% with around 10% ground rabbit bone. Its meat is the one in the range that carries no British sourcing claim. Portions run large, since an estimated 97.7 kcal per 100g makes this the lightest of the eleven, and protein converts to 54.0% of dry matter.

Per kilo, the Chicken and the Chicken and Tripe are £4.90. The Beef and Chicken, Beef and Offal, Beef and Tripe, Turkey and Haddock and Turkey and Offal are £5.60, and the Pork and Offal is £5.77. The Duck and the Lamb and Offal are £6.60, and the Rabbit is £6.80. Packs are 500g and 1kg.

For a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, working from about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the usual maintenance estimate), a day's feeding runs from £1.93 to £5.85. The gap comes from energy density, not from the figure per kilo. The Rabbit and the Chicken are light enough to feed in portions well over 800 grams, while the Beef and Chicken feeds at 344.