

5 prices from Happy Dog UK
Good points
- Meat, fish and organ only
- Almost no starch
- One animal protein: buffalo
First ingredients: Buffalo Meat and Buffalo by-products (buffalo muscle meat, buffalo liver, lungs and stomach) *, minerals All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- 100%
- Protein, dry weight
- 53%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~3%
- kcal/100 g
- 103
Ingredients
Listed first: Buffalo Meat and Buffalo by-products. 100% of the recipe is declared meat.
Buffalo Meat and Buffalo by-products (buffalo muscle meat, buffalo liver, lungs and stomach) *, minerals
Meat animal not named
From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.
Additives
Vitamins / kg: vitamin A (3a672a) 3000 IU, vitamin D3 (3a671) 300 IU, vitamin E (all rac-alpha-tocopheryl acetate 3a700) 12 mg, vitamin B1 (thiamine mononitrate 3a821) 2.5 mg
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Buffalo Meat and Buffalo by-products”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Meat and Buffalo by-products (buffalo muscle meat, … | Named meat | Not given |
| minerals | Other | Not given |
Every ingredient is meat, fish, organ or bone, so we read the food as all meat.
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Nutrition
Protein 53% and carbs about 3%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 10.5% | 53% |
| above the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 7% | 35% |
| Carbohydrate | ~0.5% | ~2.5% |
| below the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.5% | 2.5% |
| Ash | 1.5% | 7.5% |
| Moisture | 80% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.
Why it scores 82
The kind of meat scored best (15 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).
How much meat?
40.4 / 45 points- Meat on the label35 / 35 points
Every ingredient is meat, fish, organ or bone, so we read it as all meat.
- Protein level5.4 / 10 points
Protein is 52.5% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
19.2 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 2.5% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
8 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.
What kind of meat?
15 / 15 points- How the meat is listed12 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.
- Organ meat3 / 3 points
Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is named.
No ingredient deductions.
Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.
Against other wet foods
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 →Ingredient notes
Nothing flagged in 6 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
6 ingredients with nothing flagged
Minerals, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamins
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamins, vitamin A (retinyl acetate)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Minerals
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Buffalo meat and buffalo by-products
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
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Happy Dog UK6 x 800g · £32.99 | 6 x 800g | £32.99 | £6.87/kgCheapest in stock | Visit |
| Happy Dog UK800g · £5.99 | 800g | £5.99 | £7.49/kg | Visit |
| Happy Dog UK12 x 400g · £36.99 | 12 x 400g | £36.99 | £7.71/kg | Visit |
| Happy Dog UK6 x 400g · £21.99 | 6 x 400g | £21.99 | £9.16/kg | Visit |
| Happy Dog UK400g · £3.99 | 400g | £3.99 | £9.97/kg | Visit |
Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Happy Dog UK | 12 x 400g | £36.99 | £7.71/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Happy Dog UK | 400g | £3.99 | £9.97/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Happy Dog UK | 6 x 400g | £21.99 | £9.16/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Happy Dog UK | 6 x 800g | £32.99 | £6.87/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Happy Dog UK | 800g | £5.99 | £7.49/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Happy Dog UK | 12 x 400g | £36.99 | £7.71/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Happy Dog UK | 400g | £3.99 | £9.97/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Happy Dog UK | 6 x 400g | £21.99 | £9.16/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Happy Dog UK | 6 x 800g | £32.99 | £6.87/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Happy Dog UK | 800g | £5.99 | £7.49/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
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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).
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