WorkingHPRs

WorkingHPRs Puppy: Premium Working Puppy review

Name: WorkingHPRs Puppy: Premium Working Puppy
Brand: WorkingHPRs

54.6/100Good

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

54.6/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

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

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Poultry

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

Poultry mealNamed only by family.
Rice, maize, oats, barleyA cereal base.
Sugar beet pulp
Fish meal, chicken hydrolysateAnimal content with no species on the fish.
Brewers yeast, egg powder, linseeds, salmon oilThe useful extras.
Minerals, vitamins, DL-methionine
MOS, FOS, L-carnitine, yucca extractL-carnitine helps turn fat into usable energy.
Glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin sulphateAt the very end, with no doses printed.

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

Calcium converts to 1.97% of dry matter, above where growth plans for the biggest breeds usually sit. Discuss it with your vet for a big pup.

Named ingredients

Poultry Meal, Rice, Maize, Oats, Barley, Sugar Beet Pulp, Fish Meal, Chicken Hydrolysate, Brewers Yeast, Egg Powder, Linseeds, Salmon Oil, Minerals, Vitamins, DL-Methionine, Mannanoligosaccharides, Fructooligosaccharides, L-Carnitine, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Glucosamine, Methylsulfonylmethane, Chondroitin Sulphate

Against the range

Meat: Poultry meal, fish meal; Named fresh and dried meat on the other three.
Protein, as fed: 30.0%; The highest in the range.
Ash: 9.5%; 7% on the other three.
Joint doses: Not printed; Printed on the grain-free pair.

The plainest label of the four, and the one to check on calcium for a big pup.

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

350 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

9.5%

Moisture

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

32.8%

Fat

15.3%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

10.4%

Carbs

38.8%

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

40.6%

Carbs

58.2%

Oils

0.2%

Other

1.1%

Pricing & size