WorkingHPRs

WorkingHPRs Puppy: Large Breed Salmon & Potato review

Name: WorkingHPRs Puppy: Large Breed Salmon & Potato
Brand: WorkingHPRs

59.9/100Good

DryPuppy

Flavour

From Excellent down to Good across four recipes, and the spread follows the labels. The grain-free pair name every meat and dose their joint ingredients; Working Puppy names animals only by family. Calcium is printed on every recipe, a point in the range's favour on a growth food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies growing into real work, on recipes built around an active life
Large breed pups. Two recipes are formulated for that frame, with calcium at 1.41% and 1.09% of dry matter
Early joint care on the grain-free pair, with glucosamine and MSM dosed at 170 and 355 mg/kg
Households leaving cereal out, with two grain-free recipes to choose between
Fish-fed puppies. The grain-free Large Breed keeps salmon as its only named meat

Worth watching

Working Puppy's calcium at 1.97% of dry matter is above the usual mark for large and giant growth, so talk to your vet before a big pup lives on it
Every recipe has more than one animal or an unnamed one, so none narrows down a suspected intolerance
The two Large Breed recipes are formulated for big frames; a toy or small pup suits one of the others

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

How this scores

How we score

59.9/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, with two recipes for large breeds. Pick the line on the bag's chart that matches your pup's expected adult weight, and check it again as the weeks pass.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Grain Free Chicken 73.5
Grain Free Large Breed Salmon 70.1
Large Breed Salmon 59.9
Premium Working Puppy 54.6

Four recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Where WorkingHPRs names its meat and prints its doses the recipe does well, and the one built from meals on cereal sits furthest back.

What's in it

Fresh salmonmin 24%Leads comfortably.
Potatomin 15%
Salmon mealmin 11%
Potato proteinmin 11%A processing by-product that lifts the protein figure; it does not digest as well as meat protein.
Barley, oatsGrain-inclusive.
Poultry fatSo the salmon headline is not a bird-free claim.
Peas, beet pulp
Salmon digest, salmon oil
Minerals and vitamins

Vitamins A and D3 with zinc, iron, copper and manganese in mixed chelate and sulphate forms, plus iodine and selenium.

Named ingredients

Fresh salmon (min 24%), potato (min 15%), salmon meal (min 11%), potato protein (min 11%), barley, oats, poultry fat, peas, beet pulp, salmon digest, salmon oil, minerals and vitamins.

Against the range

Grain: Barley, oats; None on the grain-free pair; rice, maize, oats and barley on Working Puppy.
Fibre: 3.5%; The most of the four.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.09%; The lowest, still well inside what growth needs.
Energy: 357 kcal per 100g; Up to 384 on the grain-free Chicken.

Suits a large breed pup you would rather grow steadily than quickly.

Four growth recipes for active and working pups, built two ways. The grain-free pair put named meat at 60% of the label, carry their starch on sweet potato and print doses for glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin. Large Breed Salmon and Potato runs on fresh salmon and salmon meal over potato, barley and oats, and Working Puppy opens on poultry meal over a cereal base.

Calcium is declared on all four, which many growth ranges skip. It sits inside the growth range on three and reads 1.97% of dry matter on Working Puppy.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

357 kcal/100g

Protein

27%

Fat

15%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

29.5%

Fat

16.4%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

7.7%

Carbs

42.6%

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

36.8%

Carbs

58.9%

Oils

3.9%

Other

0.4%

Pricing & size