Arden Grange Large Breed Puppy with Fresh Chicken & Rice

A large-breed puppy's problem is almost never eating enough. It is the opposite - growing quickly on food that encourages them to bolt it, which is why the size of the kibble is the first thing Arden Grange mention on this bag.

The kibble here is deliberately larger to slow eating down, and the recipe underneath is chicken at 35%, split as 30% dried chicken and 5% fresh. Rice comes next at 21%, with maize, chicken oil, beet pulp, chicken digest, dried krill, whole dried egg at 1% and linseed at 0.5%. Joint support is declared rather than implied: glucosamine at 370mg/kg, plus chondroitin sulphate and MSM. Prebiotic FOS is at 1050mg/kg and MOS at 465mg/kg. Arden Grange feed it from 8 weeks to adulthood, and to mothers.

• 2KG bag, complete food for large breed puppies and adolescents
• Chicken 35% - 30% dried chicken and 5% fresh chicken
• Rice 21%, with maize in the recipe
• Protein 26%, fat 16%, fibre 2.5%, ash 7%
• Calcium 1.5% and phosphorus 1%, the pair that matters in a growing large breed
• Glucosamine at 370mg/kg, with chondroitin sulphate and MSM

On the life stage. the listing files this bag under puppy and senior at the same time, which is a filing error rather than a formulation - it is a puppy and adolescent food, fed from eight weeks until adulthood and to nursing mothers, and it is not a senior diet. The awkward part is when adulthood arrives, because a large breed is not finished at the age a terrier is and Arden Grange put no month figure on it here. That is a question for your vet, and it matters in both directions: leaving a large breed on a growth food too long is its own problem, and moving them off it too early is another.

Who it's for: anyone raising a large-breed puppy who wants the calcium and phosphorus figures printed rather than assumed, and litter households feeding a nursing mother from the same bag.