Wolf Of Wilderness

Wolf Of Wilderness Junior Free-Range Pack review

Name: Wolf Of Wilderness Junior Free-Range Pack
Brand: Wolf Of Wilderness

86.1/100Outstanding

WetPuppy

Two grain-free puppy recipes with 46% lead meat each, from a named husbandry standard, and an analysis about as close to straight meat as a tinned food gets. Carbohydrate converts to just 2.6% of dry matter. Calcium is printed at 1.38% of dry matter, inside the growth range. It sits in our Outstanding band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who care how the animals were kept
Growing dogs built on meat: protein at 52.6% of dry matter
Puppies raised without cereal
A pup that will finish up large, with calcium declared inside the growth range
Variety without a long list of unknowns, duck and veal beside chicken and salmon

Worth watching

Four animals across the pack, so no single-protein or exclusion trial
Salmon and salmon oil in Blue River
Swapping tin for tin changes the calories, as Blue River runs richer

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

How this scores

How we score

86.1/100Outstanding

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies. Take the starting amount from the maker's chart for your pup's expected adult weight, and allow for the energy gap between the two recipes.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Wolf Of Wilderness Junior Free-Range Pack 86.1

All one Outstanding. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Puppy wet food is the strongest corner of our data, and this pack sits at the head of it on the back of its meat shares, a printed calcium figure and almost no starch.

What's in it

Wild Hills: free-range veal (meat, heart, lung, liver)46%Organ meat at this share is nearer a whole carcass than muscle meat.
Wild Hills: free-range duck (meat, carcass, heart, neck, liver)20%
Blue River: free-range chicken (meat, carcass, heart, neck, liver)46%
Blue River: salmon, salmon oil20%, 0.2%Marine omega 3 from the fish itself as well as the oil.
Broth28.55%, 28.45%The rest of the volume. No cereal, potato or pea in either list.
Wild berries (currants, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries)4%The plant matter.
Minerals1%, 0.55%
Safflower oil (Wild Hills), brewers' yeast (Blue River)0.2%, 0.45%The small housekeeping differences.
Wild herbs, knotted kelp, dandelion root0.25% down to 0.05%Kelp is a natural iodine source.

Vitamins A and D3 with copper, manganese, zinc and selenium, printed per kilo.

One analysis covers both recipes, but Wild Hills is 115 kcal per 100g and Blue River 131.

Named ingredients

Junior Wild Hills - Duck & Veal: 46% free-range veal* (meat, heart, lung, liver), 28.55% broth, 20% free-range duck* (meat, carcass, heart, neck, liver), 4% wild berries (currants, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries), 1% minerals, 0.2% safflower oil, 0.15% wild herbs (nettle, common yarrow, thyme), 0.05% knotted kelp, 0.05% roots (dandelion) Junior Blue River Chicken & Salmon: 46% free-range chicken* (meat, carcass, heart, neck, liver), 28.45% broth*, 20% salmon, 4% wild berries (currants, blueberries, blackberries,raspberries), 0.55% minerals, 0.45% brewers' yeast, 0.25% wild herbs (nettle, common yarrow, thyme), 0.2% salmon oil, 0.05% knotted kelp, 0.05% roots (dandelion) *Certified animal-friendly premium husbandry system

Against the range

A two-recipe wet pack for growing dogs. Junior Wild Hills leads on free-range veal at 46% with duck at 20%; Junior Blue River leads on free-range chicken at 46% with salmon at 20%. Both take their meat as muscle, organ and carcass, from a certified animal-friendly husbandry system.

Broth makes up the rest of the volume, and neither list has a cereal, potato or pea. The analysis is published as one set for the pack, though energy differs: 115 kcal per 100g for Wild Hills against 131 for Blue River.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

115 kcal/100g

Protein

12.2%

Fat

7.7%

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

Moisture

76.8%

Dry weight

Protein

52.6%

Fat

33.2%

Fibre

Ash

8.6%

Carbs

2.6%

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

55.9%

Added water

37%

Veg

0.1%

Oils

0.3%

Other

6.8%

Pricing & size