Paul Dog Food Review & Ratings

Paul O'Grady's is a value dry range made by Burgess Pet Care, and which bag you pick up matters more here than with most brands. Across 3 rated foods it averages 60/100 (Good), ranking 214 of 290, with scores from 47 to 68 - a spread of 21 points.

That is a wide gap for a range this small. Paul O'Grady's Hypoallergenic at 68/100 is a meaningfully different food from the one at the bottom, and they sit next to each other in the same aisle under the same name and the same face. If you are buying this brand, buy the specific recipe rather than the brand.

The marketing is where we would push back. Ranges in this space lean on phrases like natural and no nasties, and neither of those is a specification - there is no legal definition either has to meet. What lifts a score is a named meat, a declared percentage and an ingredient list you can actually read. That is what separates the top of this range from the bottom of it.

This is priced as an accessible, widely stocked food, and that is a real service. Plenty of households need a bag that costs what this costs, and there is nothing wrong with buying it. If that is you, the alternatives below in the same band and price bracket are worth a look before your next shop - not because you are doing something wrong, but because a few points are available for the same money.