Happy Dog Salmon Small Breed Dog Food (Mini Ireland)

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Happy Dog Salmon Small Breed Dog Food (Mini Ireland)

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
23/ 100
WeakTied 847th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • About 49% carbs (dry weight)
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Oats, salmon meal (12.5 %), rabbit protein* (12.5 %), barley, maize… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
25.1%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~49%
kcal/100 g
361

Ingredients

Listed first: Oats. 25.1% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 25.1%
  • Other 0.1%
  • No amount given 75%

Oats, salmon meal (12.5 %), rabbit protein* (12.5 %), barley, maize, potatoes*, oils and fats, potato protein*, hydrolysed protein, beet pulp* (desugared), apple pomace*, potassium chloride, yeasts*, sodium chloride, calcium carbonate, seaweed*, linseed, dried whole egg, mussel meat* (0.05 %), milk thistle, yucca schidigera*, yeasts* (extract), artichoke, dandelion, ginger, birch leaves, stinging nettle, camomile, coriander, rosemary, sage, liquorice root, thyme (total dried herbs: 0.16 %) *dried

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

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

Additives

Vitamins/kg: vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, biotine, calcium-D-pantothenate, niacin, vitamin B12, choline chloride, antioxidants: high tocopherol extracts of natural origin. Trace elements/kg: iron, copper, zinc, manganese, iodine, selenium

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Oats”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
OatsGrainNot given
salmon meal (12.5%)Named meat12.5%
rabbit protein* (12.5%)Named meat12.5%
barleyGrainNot given
maizeGrainNot given
potatoes*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
oils and fatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
potato protein*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
hydrolysed proteinOtherNot given
beet pulp* (desugared)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
apple pomace*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
potassium chlorideOtherNot given
yeasts*OtherNot given
sodium chlorideOtherNot given
calcium carbonateOtherNot given
seaweed*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
linseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried whole eggOtherNot given
mussel meat* (0.05%)Named meat0.05%
milk thistleOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 49%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein24%27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat12%13%
Carbohydrate~44%~49%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
Ash7%7.8%
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.

Energy361 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 23

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (3.7 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    9.9 / 45
    • Meat on the label8.8 / 35

      25.1% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.1 / 10

      Protein is 26.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    3.7 / 20

    About 48.9% 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 847th of 1,171 dry foods. 42 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 Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 49% to 30% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.

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. 42 flagged nothing.

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

Antioxidants, apples, barley, beet pulp, biotin (vitamin H/B7), calcium carbonate, choline chloride, dandelion root, egg, ginger, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), milk thistle, nettle, niacin (vitamin B3), oats, oils and fats, pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), potassium chloride, potato, rosemary, sage, salmon, salt (sodium chloride), seaweed, thyme, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamins, yeast

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: 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, liquorice root, mussel meat, rabbit protein

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 UK10kg · £54.9910kg£54.99£5.50/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Happy Dog UK4kg x 2 · £48.294kg x 2£48.29£6.04/kgVisit
Happy Dog UK4kg · £26.994kg£26.99£6.75/kgVisit
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 UK10kg£54.99£5.50/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK4kg£26.99£6.75/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK4kg x 2£48.29£6.04/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK800g£8.99£11.24/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK10kg£54.99£5.50/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK4kg£26.99£6.75/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK4kg x 2£48.29£6.04/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 34 to 37 points higher and cost up to 19% more.

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Carbs
about 8% this food about 49%
To feed
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Carbs
about 26% this food about 49%
To feed
12% more per 1,000 kcal

+36 pointsCompare

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80% this food 25.1%
Carbs
about 29% this food about 49%
To feed
19% more per 1,000 kcal

+35 pointsCompare

Meat
74% this food 25.1%
Carbs
about 27% this food about 49%
To feed
16% less per 1,000 kcal

+34 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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