The Hunger Of The Wolf

The Hunger Of The Wolf Puppy & Junior: Chicken (Large and Giant Breeds) review

Name: The Hunger Of The Wolf Puppy & Junior: Chicken (Large and Giant Breeds)
Brand: The Hunger Of The Wolf

57.4/100Good

DryPuppy

Flavour

A growth range in two parts: chicken for large and giant breed puppies, lamb and rice for every size, both in our Good band. What sets it apart is the calcium line. Each recipe prints one, at 1.2% and 1.58% of dry matter, and both sit inside the range growing bones want.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large and giant breed puppies, on the chicken recipe with its lower calcium
Owners who read the mineral line first
Pups you want on joint support early: glucosamine and chondroitin are named in the chicken
Households raising pups of different sizes together

Worth watching

Maize in both and wheat in the chicken, so neither suits a pup with a cereal intolerance
Fish meal in both recipes
Chicken fat and chicken liver in the lamb recipe, beside an unnamed animal protein

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

How this scores

How we score

57.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyAverage

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Chicken is listed for large and giant breed puppies, lamb and rice for puppies of every size. Pick the feeding column by the adult size you expect, then work down the rows as your pup grows.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken (Large 57.4
Lamb 53.1

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The printed, in range calcium figures are what lift this pair above other foods built on similar ingredients, with the chicken the stronger of the two.

What's in it

Chicken meal29.5%Meat already rendered and dried, so the declared figure is what reaches the kibble.
Maize, wheatThe starch. Wheat appears in this recipe only.
Fish mealA second animal source.
Poultry fatA family, not the bird.
Rice
Hydrolysed poultry liverThe palatability coating.
Flaxseed, coconut oilRound out the fats.
MOS, FOS, beta-glucansPrebiotics and immune support, named without a dose.
Glucosamine, chondroitinFor the joints of a heavy framed pup, undosed.
Feed additives, ending in Enterococcus faeciumA live gut culture closes the list.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with L-carnitine are dosed; zinc and manganese are chelated, but the trace element doses are printed only in Spanish, French, German and Italian.

Calcium converts to 1.2% of dry matter, the restraint a big pup's skeleton wants.

Named ingredients

Chicken meal (29.5 %), maize, wheat, fish meal, poultry fat, rice, hydrolyzed poultry liver, flaxseed, coconut oil, MOS (mannanoligosaccharides), FOS (fructooligosaccharides), beta-glucans, glucosamine, chondroitin, feed additives (vitamins A, D3 and E, choline-chloride, biotin, chelated form of zinc and manganese, organic selenium, lysine, methionine, Enterococcus faecium).

Against the range

Meat: Chicken meal, 29.5%; Lamb meal at 20% in the other recipe
Calcium, dry matter: 1.2%; 1.58% on the lamb
Carbohydrate: 44.6% of dry matter; 41.3% on the lamb
Wheat: Yes; Not in the lamb

The one to choose for a pup heading for a large or giant adult size.

Both recipes open with a concentrated meat meal and add fish meal as a second animal source, with hydrolysed liver used as a palatability coating. Maize and rice are in both, and wheat only in the chicken. Carbohydrate converts to 44.6% and 41.3% of dry matter against 39.0% for a typical puppy dry food. Neither label declares moisture, so dry matter uses the standard 8% assumption, and both energy figures are our estimates.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

360.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

28%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

6.5%

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.1%

Carbs

44.6%

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

44.1%

Carbs

49.4%

Oils

4.4%

Other

2.2%

Pricing & size