Arkwrights Dog Food Review & Ratings

Both Arkwrights foods we have rated score at the very bottom of this site: an average of 19/100 (Avoid), ranking 270 of 290, with the better of the two, Arkwrights Complete, reaching only 19/100. A number that low usually means we are missing label data, so it is worth being precise about what is happening here.

It is not a data gap. The labels parsed. The problem is what is on them: broad category terms in place of named ingredients, and no declared percentage for the things that matter. Our score is not judging the recipe, because the recipe is not disclosed. It is measuring how much you can find out about what you are buying, and the answer is very little.

Terms like meat and animal derivatives and cereals are legal and extremely common at this end of the market. What they mean in practice is that the manufacturer can change what goes in the bag between batches, following whatever ingredient is cheapest that month, without altering a word on the packaging. Plenty of dogs live long lives on food described this way. You simply have no way to know what you fed them.

This is sold as a working dog food, aimed at people feeding several active dogs where cost per kilo is the whole decision. That is a real constraint and not one to be sniffy about. But there are working-dog foods on this site at a comparable price per day that name their ingredients, and that is the comparison worth making before your next order rather than a switch made on the strength of a low number.