A dog that does fine on chicken but reacts to beef doesn't need every mixed-meat tin ruled out - it needs one that leaves the beef out altogether, which is the case for a simpler two-meat recipe over a multi-meat one.

Chicken leads this recipe at 36%, with white fish at 14%, ahead of brown rice and naked oats for carbohydrate. The same small joint-support and digestive additions run through it as Chudleys' other canned recipes - fish oil, dried seaweed, glucosamine and chondroitin - each present in fractions of a percent.

• Chicken (36%) and white fish (14%)
• Protein 9%, fat 6%, crude fibre 0.5%, crude ash 3%, moisture 77%
• No beef or lamb in the recipe
• Fish oil (0.5%) and dried seaweed (0.3%) included
• 12 x 395G cans

A note on the claim. Chudleys don't market this as a specifically hypoallergenic or limited-ingredient recipe, but structurally it only names two meats rather than three or four - which matters if you're trying to rule a particular protein in or out rather than simply varying the diet.

Who it's for: owners of adult working dogs who want to avoid beef or lamb specifically, or who simply prefer a chicken-and-fish combination to Chudleys' other multi-meat cans.