Southend Dog Training

Southend Dog Training Southend Dog Puppy Raw Food: Beef with Tripe review

Name: Southend Dog Training Southend Dog Puppy Raw Food: Beef with Tripe
Brand: Southend Dog Training

84.4/100Outstanding

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Flavour

Two frozen puppy recipes with a short list and a very high animal share: 90% named meat, taken as muscle, bone and organs. Both sit in our Outstanding band. The beef carries the fuller organ set, and the chicken is the leaner of the two. One gap matters for a growing dog: no calcium figure on either label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want bone, heart and liver doing the job of added minerals
A simple rotation, with one red meat and one poultry recipe built the same way
Puppies that need starch kept out
Several dogs or a chest freezer, with boxes from 1kg up to 50kg of tubs
Growing dogs of any eventual size

Worth watching

No calcium figure. Ring the maker before settling a large breed puppy on it
Salmon oil in both, so neither suits a puppy kept off fish
Freezer space, fridge thawing and clean hands, bowls and surfaces afterwards

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

How this scores

How we score

84.4/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Portions are a share of bodyweight, so start from the maker's chart and review it as the puppy grows.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Chicken 85.9
Beef 84.4

All two Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Our scoring is toughest on raw puppy food, and both reach its top mark on the strength of a label that is nine parts animal.

What's in it

Beef: with bone, heart, tripe, liver, kidney90%Organs carry much of a carcass's micronutrition. Tripe is rich in protein and easily digested.
Butternut squashGentle fibre.
Green vegetablesA broad heading; we would like the vegetables named.
Blueberry
Salmon oil, hemp oilThe omega 3 side. Puts fish in the tub.
Chicory rootInulin, a prebiotic.
KelpIodine and other minerals, with no premix to supply them.

No calcium figure on the label. Ask the maker before feeding a large breed puppy.

Named ingredients

Beef 90% (Beef with Bone, Beef Heart, Beef Tripe, Beef Liver, Beef Kidney), Butternut Squash, Green Vegetables, Blueberry, Salmon Oil, Hemp Oil, Chicory Root, Kelp

Against the range

Organs: Heart, tripe, liver, kidney; Heart and liver only in the chicken.
Fat, dry matter: 40.7%; 32.9% in the chicken.
Fibre, dry matter: 9.1%; 3.2% in the chicken.

The richer recipe, with the fuller organ set.

Each recipe is 90% one animal, itemised as meat with bone and organs. Ground bone is meant to supply the calcium, so there is no premix or vitamin panel, and neither label prints a calcium figure. The other tenth is butternut squash, green vegetables, blueberry, salmon oil, chicory root and kelp, with hemp oil added to the beef.

Carbohydrate barely registers on either analysis. The beef is the richer recipe and the chicken the leaner.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

155.9 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11.8%

Fat

13.4%

Fibre

Ash

4.5%

Moisture

67.1%

Dry weight

Protein

35.9%

Fat

40.7%

Fibre

9.1%

Ash

13.7%

Carbs

0.6%

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

90%

Veg

7.2%

Oils

1.5%

Other

1.4%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £4.92 (RRP)
Pack: 10kg (20 Tubs), 15kg (30 Tubs), 20kg (40 Tubs), 30kg (60 Tubs), 40kg (80 Tubs), 50kg (100 Tubs), 5kg (10 Tubs), 1kg (2 Tubs)
A 15kg dog eats (our estimate): 485 to 590 g a day, 540 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £2.66

The maker gives a range, 250 g to 400 g a day for a 5 kg puppy, so there is room to feed to condition.

Budget end of the market for a raw food, and strong value for what is in the tub.

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