Wildways

Wildways Puppy Wet: Beef with Venison review

Name: Wildways Puppy Wet: Beef with Venison
Brand: Wildways

74.8/100Excellent

WetPuppy

Flavour

Three puppy trays that keep their meat named and their plant side small, and all three print a calcium figure, more than most growth foods manage. Each leads with a fresh named animal. Our Excellent band takes every one of them.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies of any size, from the smallest breeds up to giant
Owners who want the lead meat named and weighed
Grain-free homes. None of the three lists carries a cereal
Pups that need water coming in with their food, with moisture in the high seventies
Owners who check the calcium line first

Worth watching

The animals change from tray to tray, and two carry an entry that names no species, so an elimination plan is hard to run
Salmon oil in two of the three
Calcium varies widely between trays, so read each one for a pup that will finish large

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

How this scores

How we score

74.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. For a pup expected to finish large, pick the tray by its calcium figure, then start from the chart on the tray and let condition correct it.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Wildways Puppy Wet 75.6
Beef 74.8
Duck 71.1

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Steady across the board: no single tray carries the others, and all three keep company with the better half of a strong category.

What's in it

Fresh chicken33%The biggest entry, ahead of the beef in the name.
Fresh beef26%
Venison4%
Broth
Pumpkin, apple, camelina4%, 3%, 2%More plant material than its stablemates.
Pea flour
Derivatives of vegetable origin1.4%The one broad heading in the range.
Mannan-oligosaccharides, inulin0.5% eachFor the gut.
Kale, thyme0.5%, 0.3%

Vitamins A, D3, E and B1 with taurine at 800mg and biotin.

Calcium converts to 2.37% of dry matter, above what large breed growth plans normally work to.

Fresh chicken leads the list, so a chicken-free home should know before buying.

Named ingredients

Fresh Chicken (33%), Fresh Beef (26%), Venison (4%), Broth, Pumpkin (4%), Apple (3%), Camelina (2%), Pea Flour, Derivatives Of Vegetable Origin (1.4%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.5%), Inulin (source of Fructo-oligosaccharides 0.5%), Kale (0.5%), Thyme (0.3 %).

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 33%, beef 26%, venison 4%; Two animals in each of the others
Fibre, dry matter: 13.4%; Much the highest; the others sit at 3.2% and 4.1%
Calcium, dry matter: 2.37%; 1.14% in the turkey, 0.91% in the duck
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 7.3%; 12.7% in the turkey, 25.4% in the duck

Read the list, not the name: this is a chicken tray first, and its high fibre is one to note for a delicate stomach.

Every tray opens with a fresh named animal and a second named meat behind it, and pea flour does what little binding is needed. No cereal appears on any of the three lists. The analysis is declared in full, moisture included, and every label prints a calcium figure.

What varies is the animals, the plant side and the minerals. Protein runs from 35.8% to 43.2% of dry matter and fat from 18.2% to 32.3%. Calcium spans 0.91% to 2.37% of dry matter, so the tray you pick shifts the mineral picture far more than the flavour name suggests.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

99 kcal/100g

Protein

8.3%

Fat

7.5%

Fibre

3.1%

Ash

2.6%

Moisture

76.8%

Dry weight

Protein

35.8%

Fat

32.3%

Fibre

13.4%

Ash

11.2%

Carbs

7.3%

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

63%

Added water

20.9%

Carbs

4.8%

Veg

7.5%

Other

3.8%

Pricing & size