Specific CRW-1 Weight Reduction review

Ingredients, as declared: Pork, maize, fish, cellulose powder, vitamins and trace elements (including chelated trace elements), egg powder, fish oil, sunflower oil, psyllium husk, minerals, L-carnitine.

Pork opens the label, maize is second and fish third, so the loaf is pork-first with a cereal and a second animal protein close in behind. The fish is entered simply as fish with no species attached, and egg powder brings in a third animal source further down the list.

Cellulose powder sits fourth, high up for a wet food, and psyllium husk arrives later for its soluble fibre. Crude fibre is declared at 4.2%, and in a food that is 77.1% water that is a considerable amount of fibre once the water is set aside. Filling a dog up without feeding it much is precisely the job this diet gives its fibre.

Fat is declared at 2.5% and protein at 7.1%, with energy at 66 kcal per 100g. That is a deliberately light food, and it shows in the portions: 850 grams a day at 10kg and 1430 grams at 20kg. A slimming dog on this diet gets a genuinely big bowl in front of it. That is rather the intention.

The fats come from fish oil and sunflower oil. L-carnitine is a named addition right at the list's end, and the trace elements are chelated. Proportions have to be read off the ingredient order, since the label prints no inclusion percentages anywhere.

Pork, fish, egg and maize are all in print, which matters if there is an intolerance to manage alongside the weight. The vet running the programme sets how much your dog gets and for how long, not the table on the pack.

It arrives as a pack of six, each unit 300 g, at £9.61 a kilo. On an estimated 1269 grams a day for a 15kg dog, the daily figure is around £12.19.