Wolf Of Wilderness Tins Senior: Wild Hills review

Our Excellent band holds both of these tins, and it holds them at almost the same height, so neither one is the compromise pick. Wet food does strongly here as a category, and the halfway mark of the wet shelf already reaches Excellent. A recipe has to declare a great deal to finish above that. These two do: two named animals with printed percentages, named cuts, named herbs, named oils, and not one entry written as a legal category.

Ingredients, as declared: 40% veal meat, hearts, liver, 29.5% stock, 25% duck meat, liver necks, 2% raspberries, 2% bilberries, 1% minerals, 0.2 % wild herbs (dandelion root, nettle, ribwort, common yarrow) 0.1% salmon oil 0.1% linseed oil 0.1% green-lipped mussel extract

Green Fields leads with chicken at 40%, listing meat, hearts, livers, gizzards and necks, then brings in lamb at 25% taking in tripe among the cuts. Wild Hills swaps in veal at 40% and duck at 25% on the same construction. Naming the cuts like this is unusual, and it is useful: tripe and liver are among the easier and denser things an older dog can digest.

Meat stock accounts for 29.5% of both tins and is the only entry that keeps its animal to itself. Everything else on the label is complete. That one gap is what stops either recipe serving as a true single animal diet.

Protein converts to 41.2% of dry matter in Green Fields and 42.9% in Wild Hills, with fat at 24.8% and 25.8%, which keeps both tins firmly on the meat side of the ledger. Neither list carries a starch ingredient. The estimated carbohydrate reads 24.4% of dry matter in Green Fields and 19.2% in Wild Hills, against 15.8% typical for adult wet food. That figure is arithmetic residue, not a cereal share you could remove.

The last entries are the senior touches. Salmon oil and linseed oil bring marine and plant omega 3 respectively, and green lipped mussel extract is the ingredient owners of stiffening dogs most often reach for. All three are declared at 0.1%, so treat them as a gesture in the right direction and keep any prescribed joint support exactly as your vet has set it.

The wild herbs at 0.2% are broken out one by one as dandelion root, nettle, ribwort and common yarrow, which is the honest way to list a herb blend even when the amount is small. Minerals at 1% and the added panel handle the micronutrition, with vitamin D3 at 200 IU, vitamin E at 30mg, zinc at 15mg, manganese at 3mg and iodine at 0.75mg, each dosed in print. Calcium itself is not among the declared figures.

Veal at 40% and duck at 25%, the tin to reach for when chicken or lamb is off the menu. Just remember that veal is beef as far as an avoidance list is concerned. It runs a touch drier at 76.0% moisture, a touch higher on protein at 42.9% of dry matter and a touch denser at 111 kcal per 100g.

£3.34 a kilo on both recipes.

As a guide, take a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, which the standard maintenance estimate puts at about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75). That is £2.57 a day on Green Fields or £2.53 a day on Wild Hills. In grams that is roughly 770 of Green Fields or 757 of Wild Hills. The labels put a 20kg dog on 823 grams of Green Fields or 810 grams of Wild Hills, which lines up closely with the energy based estimate.