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Whistler's Whistlers Hypoallergenic Dog Food: Small Breeds review

Name: Whistler's Whistlers Hypoallergenic Dog Food: Small Breeds
Brand: Whistler's

58.1/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A short range built to be read in one go: one named meat at the top of each list, a plain starch base under it. Every meat goes in dried, so the percentage on the label is close to what reaches the bowl. The tail of joint and gut extras runs longer than the shelf usually bothers with.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Narrowing down a suspected trigger, as each recipe leads on one named meat
Dogs that get on with cereal; rice, oats and barley do the carrying
Older dogs feeling their joints. Every recipe has a joint ingredient with a printed dose
A small dog, with a Small Breeds kibble sized and dosed for them
The gut side covered: mannan oligosaccharides on the chicken recipes, chicory inulin on the beef

Worth watching

The Irish Beef also carries chicken fat and an unnamed hydrolysed liver protein
Salmon oil and green lipped mussel in the chicken recipes, so neither is fish free
Grain in all three, so none suits a dog that must stay clear of it

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

How this scores

How we score

58.1/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs, the Small Breeds kibble for small dogs and the other two for every size. Whistlers asks 165 to 330 grams a day for a dog of 10kg to 25kg, so let the waistline settle it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Irish Beef 65.5
Chicken 62.1
Small Breeds 58.1

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The size of the meat share is what separates them, and the Irish Beef reads strongest of the three.

What's in it

Chicken meal26%
Rice26%
Oats
Chicken fat
Prairie MealA term that does not say what animal or plant is involved.
Barley, chicken liver
Alfalfa, unmolassed beet pulp, yeast
Salmon oil, salt, seaweedSalt as a flavour enhancer.
Mannan oligosaccharides, green lipped mussel2,000mg/kg, 1,000mg/kgThe mussel is the joint entry, dosed in print.
Milk thistle, yucca, blackcurrant, kale, beetroot, rosemary

Taurine at 1,000mg/kg and carnitine at 600mg/kg, with zinc as sulphate and chelate and selenium as sodium selenite.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%.

Named ingredients

Chicken Meal (26%), Rice (26%), Oats, Chicken Fat, Prairie Meal, Barley, Chicken Liver, Alfalfa, Unmolassed Beet Pulp, Yeast, Salmon Oil, Salt, Seaweed, Mannan Oligosaccharides (2,000mg/kg), Milk Thistle, Green Lipped Mussel (1,000mg/kg),Yucca, Blackcurrant, Kale, Beetroot, Rosemary

Against the range

Fat, as fed: 18%; 13% and 14% on the full-size bags.
Protein, dry matter: 29.3%; 26.4% on the other two.
Grains: Rice, oats, barley; Rice on the chicken, oats on the beef.

The richest of the three, so portions want watching on a little dog with a quiet routine.

Each bag opens on one dried meat, so the declared share arrives close to the label figure. That is dehydrated chicken at 26%, chicken meal at 26% in the Small Breeds, dehydrated beef at 37%. Under it sits a plain, named starch base of rice, oats, barley or potato, and none of the three is grain free.

The supportive tail runs longer than usual, with milk thistle, seaweed, kale, beetroot and a dosed joint entry in every recipe. Carnitine is dosed on all three panels.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

380.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

27%

Fat

18%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

29.3%

Fat

19.6%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

41.3%

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

30%

Carbs

55.4%

Veg

1.7%

Oils

7.4%

Other

5.6%

Pricing & size