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Southend Dog Training Southend Dog Cold Pressed: Venison & Duck review

Name: Southend Dog Training Southend Dog Cold Pressed: Venison & Duck
Brand: Southend Dog Training

65.9/100Good

Cold pressedAdult

Flavour

A six-recipe cold-pressed range, grain free throughout, with the pork, beef and trout and salmon in our Excellent band and the other three in Good. The labels vary more than the packaging: some quote a headline meat figure that does not match the itemised entries beneath it. Venison, duck, pork and trout all lead a recipe here.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept off grain, as not one recipe holds a cereal
Owners after an unusual meat
Adults of any size, on one feeding chart
Owners who feed by eye and correct. The chart gives a range at each weight
Joints that need a hand, with glucosamine and chondroitin in all six

Worth watching

Adults only, so not for a puppy in the house
No vitamin and mineral panel, so no printed doses to check
Green lipped mussel on most labels, and chicken in the pork
Trust the itemised percentages over the summary meat line

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

How this scores

How we score

65.9/100Good

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The chart asks 150 to 375 grams a day for a 15kg adult, so place your dog within it by condition.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Pork 73.1
Beef 71.4
Trout 70.7
Beef 69.1
Chicken 68.0
Venison 65.9

Six recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

None of the six falls short of its category and the strongest clear it; transparency is what separates them, more than the analysis.

What's in it

Ground duck25%
Sweet potato, potato
Venison8%A lean, novel protein.
Linseed oil
Hydrolysed vegetablesWhich vegetables is never said.
Dried apples, dried kale, chicory fibre, seaweed, spirulina
Green lipped mussel, mannan-oligosaccharides, glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate1% mussel

Named ingredients

Quality Meat Content 34%, Ground duck (25%), sweet potato, potato, venison (8%), linseed oil, hydrolysed vegetables, dried apples, dried kale, chicory fibre, seaweed, spirulina, green lipped mussel (1%), mannan-oligosaccharides, glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate. 🦆 Ground Duck (25%) - rich, digestible protein, 🦌 Venison (8%) - lean, novel protein, 🍠 Sweet Potato & Potato - slow-release energy, 🌿 Spirulina, Kale & Seaweed - natural vitamins, Total meat content around 34%, balanced with natural ingredients.

Against the range

Animals: Duck 25%, venison 8%; The most novel pairing in the range.
Calcium, dry matter: 2.17%; Highest; most read 1.41%.
Unnamed entry: Hydrolysed vegetables; The others name their plants.

Handy when the usual meats have all been tried.

All six are cold pressed, grain free and listed for adults, with a named animal at the front of every list. Sweet potato and potato carry five of them; the pork turns to peas and tapioca. Every recipe closes with glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate and mannan oligosaccharides, and most add green lipped mussel at 1% with spirulina, kale and seaweed. Carbohydrate runs from 42.3% to 47.2% of dry matter. No vitamin and mineral panel is published for any of them.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

338 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

11%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

12%

Carbs

43.4%

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

67%

Carbs

23.4%

Veg

6.2%

Oils

Other

0.4%

Pricing & size