Wildways

Wildways Puppy Wet: Duck with Chicken review

Name: Wildways Puppy Wet: Duck with Chicken
Brand: Wildways

71.1/100Excellent

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

71.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

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

Duck

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 duck48%
Chicken18%
Blackberries4%
Pea flour3%
Hydrolysed animal protein2%Names no species, which matters inside an exclusion trial.
Lignocellulose1%
Salmon oil0.5%The marine omegas.
Calcium carbonate, dried rosemary0.3%, 0.01%

The shortest panel in the range: vitamin D3, vitamin E and biotin.

Calcium converts to 0.91% of dry matter, the lowest here and at the lower end of what a growing pup draws on.

Named ingredients

Fresh Duck (48%), Chicken (18%), Blackberries (4%), Pea Flour( 3%), Hydrolysed Animal Protein (2%), Lignocellulose (1%), Salmon Oil (0.5%), Calcium Carbonate (0.3%), Dried Rosemary (0.01%)

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 43.2%; Highest in the range; 40.9% and 35.8% elsewhere
Fat, dry matter: 18.2%; Lowest; 31.8% and 32.3% elsewhere
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 25.4%; Well clear of the other two, and above the 13.6% typical of wet puppy food
Calcium, dry matter: 0.91%; 1.14% in the turkey, 2.37% in the beef

The lean tray of the three and the richest in protein, with the shortest added panel.

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

91 kcal/100g

Protein

9.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.9%

Ash

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

43.2%

Fat

18.2%

Fibre

4.1%

Ash

9.1%

Carbs

25.4%

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

76.2%

Added water

13.9%

Carbs

3.4%

Oils

0.6%

Other

Pricing & size