Whistlers Dog Food Review & Ratings

We have rated 1 Whistlers food and it scores 77/100, which is Good on our scale. It is a grain-inclusive dry recipe, and the cereal content is the main reason it sits where it does rather than higher.

Whistlers is Irish, from a farm in Co. Donegal, rather than British - worth correcting if you found it on a UK shelf.

The word to be careful with here is hypoallergenic. On dog food packaging it has no legal definition, and in practice it almost always means wheat-free and gluten-free rather than tested against anything. That is a genuinely useful thing if wheat is your dog's problem, and it is not a guarantee about any other ingredient. This is a criticism of the term as the whole industry uses it, not of this brand in particular - it appears on hundreds of bags.

One food is not a range, so read the score narrowly. It tells you this recipe stands up on its label and nothing about the rest of what the company makes, because we do not hold it yet.

If your dog does well on it, the score says you are not doing badly. If you are chasing a food for a suspected allergy, the ingredient panel on the product page is more use to you than the word on the front of the bag.