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Laughing Dog Wheat Free Senior Complete review

A solid, honest dry food. 29% declared meat content is respectable, and the label tells you exactly what is inside. Feeding it costs about 63p a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 75/100 Good
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Top 47%scores higher than 53% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£0.63 approx.per day for a 10 kg dogcheaper than 53% of dry foods
29%declared meat content
United Kingdombrand origin
316kcal per 100 g

Where the points went

The full breakdown, exactly as the algorithm scored it. How our rating works

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 75/100 across 18 ingredients (declared percentages used for 8, position estimates for the rest).
30 / 40
Label clarity
Every ingredient individually named (+5); percentages cover 90% of the recipe (+5.4); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
14.4 / 15
Additives
No artificial colours, flavours, controversial preservatives or added sugars found.
10 / 10
Red flags
No red-flag ingredients.
0 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 29%.
10.6 / 15
Nutritional balance
Composition not fully declared - scored neutral (4/10) until the analytical constituents are published.
4 / 10
Processing
Assumed extruded kibble (standard high-heat process).
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
75 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 75 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 30 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is additives at 10 of 10.

The label declares 29% meat, which is a real number, which already puts it ahead of the many that print none, and the ingredient list names things individually rather than hiding them in catch-all categories.

At about 63p a day to feed a 10kg dog, the question is not whether it is cheap but whether the label justifies the price - and on our scoring, it broadly does.

Ingredients

Straight from the label, grouped by role - every ingredient is coloured by our published classification and links to its full page.

Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label
Additives (as declared on the label)
Vitamin a 17000iu, Vitamin D3 2000iu, Vitamin E 550mg, Zinc Chelate of Amino Acids Hydrate 200mg, Manganese Oxide 156mg, Ferrous Sulphate Monohydrate 133mg, Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate 97mg, Copper Sulphate Pentahydrate 20mg, Selenised Yeast , Inactivated 8.7mg, Sodium Selenite 6.5mg, Calcium Iodate Anhydrous 3.3mg.

Feeding & cost

What a bag actually costs to feed - worked out per dog, not per pack.

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
12 kg£44.49£3.71

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 10 kg adult dog needs about 169 g a day = £0.63 / day, £19.15 / month.

How we work this out
  1. Energy: an adult dog at rest needs about 95 × weight0.75 kcal a day (the FEDIAF maintenance formula - a 10 kg dog works out near 534 kcal).
  2. Portion: divide that by this food's energy density, 316 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £3.71 / kg, for the daily cost, then by 30.4 days for the month.

Estimates scale to your dog's weight and the food's calorie density - a denser food needs fewer grams. A rough guide; always follow the pack. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

Declared analysis converted to a dry-matter basis, so wet and dry foods compare fairly.

Protein

22.8 % DM
Directory average: 28.2

Fat

12 % DM
Directory average: 14.8

Fibre

3.8 % DM
Directory average: 3.6

Energy

316 kcal/100g
Directory average: 365.3

Moisture isn't declared on this label - dry-matter figures assume 8% (typical for a dry food) and are marked estimated.

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