Sausage Dog Sanctuary Food

Sausage Dog Sanctuary Food Grain-Free Puppy: Salmon With Haddock, Blue Whiting, Sweet Potato & Asparagus review

Name: Sausage Dog Sanctuary Food Grain-Free Puppy: Salmon With Haddock, Blue Whiting, Sweet Potato & Asparagus
Brand: Sausage Dog Sanctuary Food

68.9/100Good

DryPuppy

Flavour

A Good small breed puppy range where you pick the protein: chicken, duck or fish, each at 60% on the label and no cereal in any of them. The joint and gut supplements carry printed doses, which few puppy foods bother with. The mineral end is where the labels run short.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small breed puppies, the size the whole range is built around
Grain-free homes. Sweet potato and potato do the binding in all three
Joint support you can quantify: glucosamine at 170 mg/kg, methylsulfonylmethane at 170 mg/kg, chondroitin sulphate at 125 mg/kg
Pups with unsettled digestion, where FOS and MOS sit alongside added nucleotides
Keeping poultry out of the bowl, using the all fish recipe

Worth watching

No calcium figure on any label. Call the maker if your pup will grow big
Vitamins and minerals given as two bare words, with no additive panel to check
More than one animal in every recipe, and an unsourced omega 3 supplement

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

How this scores

How we score

68.9/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small breed puppies. Set the portion from the bag's chart and check your pup between ribs and hips as the weeks pass.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Chicken 69.9
Duck 69.1
Salmon 68.9

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Three recipes built to one standard, with almost nothing between them and the chicken a fraction ahead.

What's in it

Salmon: freshly prepared, dried21%, 16%Most of the 60% block.
Freshly prepared blue whiting, haddock11%, 10%Three fish, no birds.
Salmon stock2%
Sweet potato, potato, beet pulp20%
Peas6%The most peas in the range.
Linseed, omega 3 supplement
Minerals, vitamins, vegetable stockBare words, no doses.
Asparagus0.2%
Glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane, chondroitin sulphate, nucleotides, FOS, MOSThe range's shared joint and gut pack.

No calcium figure on the label. Ask the maker before feeding a pup that will grow big.

Named ingredients

Salmon, Haddock & Blue Whiting 60% (Freshly Prepared Salmon 21%, Dried Salmon 16%, Freshly Prepared Blue Whiting 11%, Freshly Prepared Haddock 10% & Salmon Stock 2%), Sweet Potato (20%), Potato, Beet Pulp, Peas (6%), Linseed, Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Vitamins, Vegetable Stock, Asparagus (0.2%), Glucosamine (170 mg/ kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (170 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (125 mg/kg), Nucleotides, FOS (96 mg/kg), MOS (24 mg/kg)

Against the range

Meat: Salmon, blue whiting, haddock; Poultry leads the other two.
Protein and fat, as fed: 27.0% and 13.0%; The same as the chicken; the duck is richer.
Energy: 347 kcal per 100g, estimated; The gentlest in the range.

The recipe for a pup that has to stay off poultry.

Every recipe declares a 60% meat or fish block, split on the label into freshly prepared and dried portions with a stock behind them. The dried portion has already lost its water, so it counts for more in the finished kibble than its size suggests. Sweet potato then potato carry the starch, with beet pulp for fibre and peas in varying amounts. No cereal appears.

The joint pack and the prebiotics are identical across all three and printed with their doses. Vitamins and minerals appear only as two bare words, and no calcium figure is given anywhere.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

346.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

27%

Fat

13%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

29.3%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

44.1%

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

55.6%

Added water

10.3%

Carbs

32%

Other

2.2%

Pricing & size