Happy Dog Small Breed Senior Dog Food (Mini Senior)

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Happy Dog Small Breed Senior Dog Food (Mini Senior)

DryCompleteSeniorContains grain
19/ 100
WeakTied 986th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • 13% meat
  • About 53% carbs (dry weight)
  • Some meat not named by animal

First ingredients: Rice, maize, meat meal, barley, animal proteins* (poultry 4 %, lamb 4 %)… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
13%
Protein, dry weight
26%
Carbs, dry weight
~53%
kcal/100 g
360

Ingredients

Listed first: Rice. 13% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 13%
  • Other 0.3%
  • No amount given 86.7%

Rice, maize, meat meal, barley, animal proteins* (poultry 4 %, lamb 4 %), oils and fats, fish meal (5 %, of which 50 % salmon meal), hydrolysed protein, beet pulp (desugared) , apple pomace , potassium chloride, yeasts*, sodium chloride, seaweed*, linseed (0.15 %), dried whole egg (0.1 %), chicory powder, milk thistle, mussel meat* (0.02 %), yucca schidigera*, yeasts* (extract), artichoke, dandelion, ginger (0.014 %), birch leaves, stinging nettle, camomile, coriander, rosemary, sage, liquorice root, thyme (total dried herbs: 0.14 %). *dried

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

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

Additives

Vitamins/kg: vitamin A, vitaminD3, vitamin E, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, biotine,calcium-D-pantothenate, niacin, vitamin B12, choline chloride, vitamin C,L-carnitine, antioxidants: high tocopherol extracts of natural origin. Trace elements/kg: iron, copper,zinc (zinc oxide, zinc chelate of amino acids hydrate,), manganese, iodine,selenium

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
RiceGrainNot given
maizeGrainNot given
meat mealMeat, animal not namedNot given
barleyGrainNot given
animal proteins* (poultry 4%, lamb 4%)Named meat8%
oils and fatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
fish meal (5%, of which 50% salmon meal)Named meat5%
hydrolysed proteinOtherNot given
beet pulp (desugared)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
apple pomaceVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
potassium chlorideOtherNot given
yeasts*OtherNot given
sodium chlorideOtherNot given
seaweed*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
linseed (0.15%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.1%
dried whole egg (0.1%)Other0.1%
chicory powderVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
milk thistleOtherNot given
mussel meat* (0.02%)Named meat0.02%
yucca schidigera*OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 26% and carbs about 53%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein23.5%26%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat11%12%
Carbohydrate~48%~53%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2%2.2%
Ash6%6.7%
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.

Energy360 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 19

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (2.4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    5.6 / 45
    • Meat on the label4.6 / 35

      13% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1 / 10

      Protein is 26.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    2.4 / 20

    About 52.8% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    6 / 15
    • How the meat is listed6 / 12

      The label lists the meat as unnamed meal, fresh and meal, 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 986th of 1,171 dry foods. 21 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 Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 53% to 32% by dry weight, and protein is about 35%.

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. 43 flagged nothing.

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

Antioxidants, apples, barley, beet pulp, biotin (vitamin H/B7), chicory root extract, choline chloride, dandelion root, egg, fish, ginger, l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), milk thistle, nettle, niacin (vitamin B3), oils and fats, pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), potassium chloride, processed animal protein, rice, rosemary, sage, salt (sodium chloride), seaweed, thyme, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), 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, dried, 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 x 2 · £46.504kg x 2£46.50£5.81/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Happy Dog UK4kg · £25.994kg£25.99£6.50/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 UK4kg£25.99£6.50/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK4kg x 2£46.50£5.81/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK800g£8.99£11.24/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK4kg£25.99£6.50/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK4kg x 2£46.50£5.81/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 30 to 41 points higher and cost up to 23% more.

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Carbs
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Carbs
about 26% this food about 53%
To feed
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72% this food 13%
Carbs
about 41% this food about 53%
To feed
22% less per 1,000 kcal

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56% this food 13%
Carbs
about 32% this food about 53%
To feed
23% more per 1,000 kcal

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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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