Canagan Small Breed Light/Senior Dry Dog Food – 2kg

Canagan Small Breed Light/Senior Dry Dog Food – 2kg

This is Canagan's newest addition to the dry range: the Light/Senior chicken recipe pressed into the small-breed kibble. The formula is identical to the standard Light/Senior — 27% freshly prepared free-range chicken, 27% dried chicken, 34% protein against 14% fat — but the piece is small enough for a terrier or a toy breed to chew properly rather than bolt whole.

The feeding table is the other reason to choose it. Canagan chart it from 3kg bodyweight upward, where the all-breed Light/Senior table starts at 5kg, so a 3kg dog gets a stated 50g a day rather than a guess. At 2kg the bag is about forty days for that dog and a fortnight for a 10kg one.

Performance & Benefits

• Small-breed kibble size in the Light/Senior formulation.
• Crude protein 34% with crude fat held at 14%.
• Glucosamine and MSM at 1,440 mg/kg each, chondroitin sulphate at 1,050 mg/kg.
• 54% chicken — 27% freshly prepared free-range and 27% dried.
• Feeding chart begins at 3kg bodyweight, which most adult tables do not cover.
• Grain free, with sweet potato, potato and peas instead of cereal.

Suitable For

• Small and toy breeds from about seven years old.
• Overweight small dogs — the 40g-a-day line for a 3kg dog is a usable starting point.
• Dogs that swallow standard kibble whole and would benefit from a smaller piece.
• For adults only. A small-breed puppy needs Canagan Free-Range Chicken Small Breed, not a reduced-calorie food.
• A dog over about 12kg is better on the all-breed Canagan Free-Run Chicken Light/Senior, which is the same recipe in a larger kibble and a larger bag.

Feeding

• Senior maintenance from seven years: 50g a day at 3kg bodyweight, 80g at 5kg, 105g at 7kg, 130g at 10kg.
• Overweight dogs on a reducing ration: 40g at 3kg, 70g at 5kg, 90g at 7kg, 110g at 10kg.
• Split the daily amount into two meals — at these quantities a single serving looks very small in the bowl.
• Introduce over a week: a quarter Canagan on day one, half by day three, three-quarters by day five, all of it by day seven.
• Canagan advise adjusting by 10% up or down and holding the new amount until condition is right.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: freshly prepared free-range chicken (27%), dried chicken (27%), sweet potato, potato, peas, alfalfa, dried egg (3%), chicken fat (2.3%), chicken gravy (1.5%), glucosamine (1,440 mg/kg), MSM (1,440 mg/kg), apple, carrot, fructooligosaccharides, spinach, psyllium, seaweed, chondroitin sulphate (1,050 mg/kg), peppermint, camomile, marigold, cranberry, aniseed and fenugreek.
• Analytical constituents: crude protein 34%, fat content 14%, crude fibre 3%, crude ash 8.5%, omega 6 2.4%, calcium 1.6%, phosphorus 0.95%.
• Nutritional additives per kg: vitamin A 15,000 IU, vitamin D3 1,200 IU, vitamin E 150 mg, taurine 1,500 mg.
• Trace elements per kg: iodine 2 mg, copper 10 mg, zinc chelate hydrate 45 mg, zinc oxide 90 mg, selenium 0.2 mg.
• Canagan publish no metabolisable energy figure for this recipe, so no kcal value is stated here. The all-breed Light/Senior, which shares the composition, is declared at 372 kcal per 100g.
• Canagan make it in 2kg and 6kg only.