Raw Pet Foods

Raw Pet Foods Complete Sticks: Puppy review

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Flavour

Frozen raw food in 1kg sticks that thaw and slice cleanly, across seven varieties from a beef mince to a puppy recipe. Four print a full, percentaged composition down to the offal. The other three publish no ingredients at all, the one thing standing between this range and a full reading.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who portion by hand. A thawed stick slices without a fight
Dogs settled on poultry, with chicken leading four of the seven
Stocking the freezer in one go, as sticks come singly or twelve to a box
A growing dog fed alongside an adult, with a puppy stick in the same format

Worth watching

No ingredients list for the Just Chicken, Meatfeast or Puppy, so ask Raw Pet Foods directly
Ox heart, liver and kidney in the chicken and turkey sticks, so they carry beef too
Chicken alongside the beef flank in the Beef stick

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

The details

Dog fit

Six sticks are listed for adults of every size and one for puppies. Plan for freezer space and a fridge thaw, and clean hands, bowls and surfaces afterwards.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

We have not put a score against this range. The reason is a gap in what gets published, and nothing about the food itself. Three of the seven sticks, the Just Chicken, the Meatfeast and the Puppy, list no ingredients at all, and a recipe whose composition is not declared cannot honestly be weighed up beside recipes that are. The four sticks that do print their composition are detailed and percentaged, right down to the offal, which suggests an oversight on the website and not any reluctance to say. Ask Raw Pet Foods for the three missing lists and this becomes a straightforward range to assess.

What's in it

The label names a Vermix premix at 1%, the only premix in the range, alongside kelp and flaxseed oil.

No ingredients list is published, so what the puppy version changes stays hidden. Ask Raw Pet Foods before ordering.

Against the range

Premix: Vermix 1%; None named on the adult sticks.
Analysis: 16.4% protein, 15.5% fat as fed; Matches the adult chicken stick.

The stick written for growing dogs, though its list is still to be published.

Where a composition is printed, a named meat sits well in front, ox heart leads the organ share and ox liver and kidney follow. Carrots, butternut and green leaf make the plant side, and kelp with flaxseed oil at 1% closes the list. No cereal, potato or pulse appears, and carbohydrate estimates at or near zero.

Kelp and flaxseed oil are the whole supplement story on the adult sticks; the offal supplies copper, vitamin A and B vitamins in concentrated form. Three sticks, the Just Chicken, Meatfeast and Puppy, publish no ingredients list at all.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

190.9 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

16.4%

Fat

15.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

64.2%

Dry weight

Protein

45.8%

Fat

43.3%

Ash

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £4.55 (RRP)
Pack: 1KG, 12KG - the body text of the page additionally types out: Puppy Stick 1KG & 12 x 1KG
A 15kg dog eats: 300 to 450 g a day, 375 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £1.71

Budget end of the raw market.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.