Dylan For Working Dogs is a British made value tin, sold as a complete food and bought by people who feed real numbers of dogs rather than one spaniel. The variety pack is twelve 400g cans in a mix of flavours, and it exists so that a kennel is not opening twelve identical tins in a row. It can be fed on its own as the whole meal or spooned over a dry food.

Each recipe is built the same way: meat and animal derivatives with a minimum of four percent of the named meat, then cereals, fish and fish derivatives, minerals and various sugars. The declared panel is Protein 7%, Fat Content 4%, Crude Ash 3%, Crude Fibres 0.5% and Moisture 80%, with vitamins A, D3 and E and a trace element set on top. Eighty percent moisture is the number that explains all the others, and it is entirely normal for a tinned food.

• 12 x 400g cans, complete food for adult working dogs
• Protein 7%, Fat Content 4%, Crude Ash 3%, Crude Fibres 0.5%, Moisture 80%
• Minimum 4% of the named meat in each recipe
• Feeding guide: 2 to 4 cans a day for a 10 to 20kg dog, 4 to 7 for 20 to 45kg
• Made in the UK

"With beef" on a tin means at least four percent beef, and four percent is what this label declares. The rest of the protein is meat and animal derivatives, the legal catch-all for animal material with no species attached, plus fish and fish derivatives. That is normal at this price and it is not a criticism, but it is the thing to know before you set this tin beside one that names sixty percent chicken and wonder why there is several pounds between them. The flavour mix in the twelve has also changed between production runs, from four recipes to two, so treat the exact line-up as whatever is in the box rather than a promise.

Who it's for: Anyone feeding a working dog, or several dogs, who wants a complete tinned meal at a sensible price and does not need a named meat percentage. It also works as a wet topper on a dry food. Not the tin to buy if your dog reacts to fish, because fish and fish derivatives are in every recipe.