Happy Dog Lamb Small Breed Puppy Food (Sensitive)

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Happy Dog Lamb Small Breed Puppy Food (Sensitive)

DryCompletePuppyContains grain
26/ 100
WeakTied 699th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • 19.5% meat
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Lamb protein* (19.5%), rice (19%), corn flour, greaves, oils and fats… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
19.5%
Protein, dry weight
33%
Carbs, dry weight
~37%
kcal/100 g
357

Ingredients

Listed first: Lamb protein. 19.5% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 19.5%
  • Grain 24%
  • No amount given 56.5%

Lamb protein* (19.5%), rice (19%), corn flour, greaves, oils and fats, corn, rice protein* (5%), hydrolysed protein, beet molasses pulp* (desugared), cellulose, apple pomace*, potassium chloride, yeast* , sodium chloride, seaweed*, linseed, psyllium husk, yucca schidigera*, mussel meat* (0.04%), milk thistle, yeast* (extracted), artichoke, dandelion, ginger, birch leaves, nettle, chamomile, coriander, rosemary, sage, liquorice root , thyme (dry herbs total 0.15%)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.

Additives

Vitamins/kg: vitamin A (3a672a) 17000 IU, vitamin D3 (3a671) 900 IU, vitamin E (as 3a700) 120 mg, vitamin C (as 3a312) 30 mg Trace elements/kg: iron (as 3b103) 65 mg, copper (as 3b405) 14 mg, zinc (as 3b603, 3b606) 125 mg, manganese (as 3b502) 30 mg, iodine (calcium iodate, anhydrous 3b202) 2.5 mg, Selenium (Sodium Selenite 3b801) 0.2 mg Amino acids/kg: L-tryptophan (3c440) 1000 mg Antioxidants, tocopherol extracts from vegetable oils 1b306(i)

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Lamb protein*”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Lamb protein* (19.5%)Named meat19.5%
rice (19%)Grain19%
corn flourGrainNot given
greavesOtherNot given
oils and fatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
cornGrainNot given
rice protein* (5%)Grain5%
hydrolysed proteinOtherNot given
beet molasses pulp* (desugared)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
celluloseVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
apple pomace*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
potassium chlorideOtherNot given
yeast*OtherNot given
sodium chlorideOtherNot given
seaweed*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
linseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
psyllium huskVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
yucca schidigera*OtherNot given
mussel meat* (0.04%)Named meat0.04%
milk thistleOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 33% and carbs about 37%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein30%33%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat16%18%
Carbohydrate~33%~37%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.5%2.8%
Ash8.5%9.4%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the dry foods we rate.

Energy357 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 26

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Meat scored lowest (9 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    9 / 45
    • Meat on the label6.8 / 35

      19.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.2 / 10

      Protein is 33.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    7.8 / 20

    About 36.7% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    4 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    6 / 15
    • How the meat is listed6 / 12

      The label lists the meat as meal and fresh, which earns 50% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat0 / 3

      No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Tied 699th of 1,171 dry foods. 51 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

What the score means

One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.

75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.

How we rate foods →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 37% to 20% by dry weight, and protein is about 38%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

Best wet foods →

Ingredient notes

3 noted: hydrolysed proteins, chamomile and yucca extract. 33 flagged nothing.

  • 3 noted
  • 33 nothing flagged
  • 6 not in our ingredient database yet
33 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, apples, beet pulp, cellulose, dandelion root, ginger, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), milk thistle, nettle, oils and fats, potassium chloride, processed animal protein, psyllium, rice, rosemary, sage, salt (sodium chloride), seaweed, thyme, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamins, yeast

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients
6 not in our ingredient database yet

Artichoke, birch leaves, coriander, L tryptophan, liquorice root, mussel meat

Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Happy Dog UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

ShopPackPricePer kg
Happy Dog UK4kg · £32.994kg£32.99£8.25/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Happy Dog UK800g · £8.99800g£8.99£11.24/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK4kg£32.99£8.25/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK800g£8.99£11.24/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK4kg£32.99£8.25/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK800g£8.99£11.24/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 33 to 36 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
74% this food 19.5%
Carbs
about 19% this food about 37%
To feed
10% less per 1,000 kcal

+36 pointsCompare

Meat
75% this food 19.5%
Carbs
about 18% this food about 37%
To feed
51% less per 1,000 kcal

+35 pointsCompare

Meat
78% this food 19.5%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 37%
To feed
46% less per 1,000 kcal

+34 pointsCompare

Meat
76% this food 19.5%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 37%
To feed
26% less per 1,000 kcal

+33 pointsCompare

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Taken from the maker’s page, checked 28 Sep 2026.

From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 28 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Happy Dog UK (the maker).

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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