Terra Canis

Terra Canis Senior Wet Food: Game with tomato, apple and medicinal herbs review

Name: Terra Canis Senior Wet Food: Game with tomato, apple and medicinal herbs
Brand: Terra Canis

76.8/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

Four senior cans, all in our Excellent band, built on heart, liver, lung and stomach with every organ given its own percentage. That is rare on a wet label and it is the reason this range holds up. The herbs on the front of the can are seasoning; the meat is why you buy it.

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Our view

Likely to suit

An older dog whose appetite needs coaxing. Organ meat is about as palatable as a bowl gets
Households feeding adults and seniors together, as every can is listed for both
Owners who want to add up the animal content themselves
Dogs off grain: the starch is potato with a little coconut flour
Rotation between beef, venison, chicken and turkey on one house recipe
Poor drinkers. Three quarters or more of every can is moisture

Worth watching

Goat's milk in all four, so none is a single-animal can for an elimination diet
Glucosamine at a trace level, nowhere near a working dose for a dog under treatment
Energy varies a lot between cans, and the labels print no calories. Weigh the bowl again when you switch

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

How this scores

How we score

76.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. The only size listed is the 400g can, so a small dog will need the rest covered in the fridge.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Game

The score, in context

Beef 79.5
Chicken 79.5
Game 76.8
Turkey 76.6

All four Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The four cans finish close together, and what separates them is richness: the poultry recipes run leaner and wetter, the red meat ones denser.

What's in it

Venison muscle meat60%One meat on one line.
Potato, carrot
Tomato8%
Celery, apple5% apple
Goat's milk3%The second animal on the label.
Coconut flour, linseed oil
Oyster shell, brewer's yeast, seaweedCalcium, B vitamins, iodine.
Horsetail, dandelion, hawthorn, fennel seed, stinging nettle, rose hip0.3% down to 0.2%
Glucosamine, mineral clay, pollen, minerals0.2% glucosamine

Vitamins A, D3 and E with copper, iodine and zinc, each dosed in print.

The simplest label in the range for a dog trying unfamiliar proteins, though goat's milk is still in it.

Named ingredients

Venison Muscle Meat (60â€‰%), Potato, Carrot, Tomato (8â€‰%), Celery, Apple (5â€‰%), Goatâ€™s Milk (3â€‰%), Coconut Flour, Linseed Oil, Oyster Shell, Brewerâ€™s Yeast, Horsetail (0.3â€‰%), Dandelion (0.2â€‰%), Hawthorn Powder (0.2â€‰%), Glucosamine (0.2â€‰%), Fennel Seed, Stinging Nettle (0.2â€‰%), Rose Hip, Mineral Clay, Pollen, Seaweed, Minerals.

Against the range

Meat: Venison muscle meat 60%; The others split poultry or beef into organs.
Energy: About 107 kcal per 100g; Densest can; turkey is about 68.
Moisture: 77.7%; Driest of the four.

Portions run smallest on this one, and it is the cleanest label for a novel protein.

Every can writes its meat out organ by organ, with a percentage on each, so the animal content adds up on the label. Heart leads three of the four; the game can is venison muscle meat alone. Potato follows the meat on all four, with vegetables and fruit that change by recipe, and coconut flour binds the loaf.

Goat's milk at 2% or 3%, linseed oil, oyster shell, brewer's yeast and seaweed appear on every label, along with a herb list and glucosamine at or below 0.4%. Moisture runs from 77.7% to 84.3%, and protein from 42.2% to 62.4% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

107.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

9.4%

Fat

7.3%

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

1.3%

Moisture

77.7%

Dry weight

Protein

42.2%

Fat

32.7%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

5.8%

Carbs

15.7%

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

42.3%

Added water

12.7%

Carbs

25.3%

Veg

19%

Oils

0.3%

Other

0.4%