Skipper's Working Dog Food: Salmon & Potato review

1. Salmon 64.7
2. Salmon 53.4

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Both sit in the same band, carried by named fish and printed splits, with the grain-free bag a clear step ahead within it.

• Freshly prepared salmon22%Heavy with water that the oven removes.
• Dried salmon13%Quietly doing much of the work.
• Salmon oil6%A named fish oil at a printed figure, counted inside the 44% salmon.
• Salmon gravy2%
• Potato24%
• Oats, maizemaize 13%The cereal half of the starch base.
• Beet pulp4%Fibre for a dog eating large portions.
• Minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E with iron, zinc, manganese and iodine dosed in print.

Oats and maize: not for a dog kept off cereal.

Starch

Potato, oats, maize

Sweet potato, peas and potato in the other

Carbohydrate, dry matter

53.7%

48.2% in the grain-free bag

Protein, dry matter

23.9%

28.3% in the grain-free bag

Omega 3

Salmon oil 6%

Linseed and an unsourced supplement

Pick this bag when oats agree with your dog and there is no reason to avoid cereal.

Both bags take all their animal content from fish, with the fresh, dried and stock shares printed. Both sit on a generous starch base for energy and use beet pulp for fibre, with the same trace elements dosed. One keeps oats and maize with potato; the other uses sweet potato and leaves cereal out.

Price per kilo

£4.67 (RRP)

Pack

12kg

A 15kg dog eats

155 to 265 g a day, 210 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.98

Portions are built for dogs in real work; a quieter dog on the same scoop will put weight on.

On the analysis alone, you are paying a little more than this bag earns.