Nutriment Gourmet Burgers Beef & Cheese – Grain Free Low Fat Dog Treats

Gourmet Beef & Cheese Burgers for Dogs

Gourmet Burgers are semi-moist, burger-shaped treats made in Britain by Pet Treats Wholesale, and the Beef & Cheese version is 40% beef with chicken, 1% cheese and sweet potato behind it. They are grain free, soft enough to tear in half, and sized as a proper reward rather than a training crumb.

The declared analysis is 22.44% crude protein and 19.1% crude oils and fats, with crude fibre at 33.96% — by some way the highest fibre figure in the burger range, and a long way below the 44–58% protein of the single-meat flavours. Worth reading the figures rather than the flavour name if protein is what you are buying on.

Performance & Benefits

• Beef at 40%, with chicken, cheese at 1% and sweet potato.
• Grain free — no cereal appears in the declared composition.
• Semi-moist and pliable, so one burger tears down to whatever size of reward you want.
• Made in Britain by Pet Treats Wholesale, who list the Gourmet range as easy to digest.
• Declared crude protein 22.44% and crude oils and fats 19.1%.
• A six-item composition, short enough to check quickly against a dog's known triggers.

Suitable For

• Dogs that want a substantial reward rather than a training-sized crumb.
• Recall work, where one burger can be broken into several pieces.
• Grain-free feeding plans.
• Dogs that take beef, chicken and a little dairy without trouble.
• Not a low-fat treat, whatever the listing title says — at 19.1% crude oils and fats these are wrong for a dog on a strict fat restriction.

Feeding

• Feed supervised, with clean fresh water always available — Pet Treats Wholesale's own instruction.
• A complementary treat: feed in addition to a complete and balanced diet, not instead of one.
• Reduce the main meal to allow for what goes in as treats across the day.
• Tear a burger into pieces for training, or give one whole as a reward.
• Pet Treats Wholesale publish no daily allowance by bodyweight, so none is stated here.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: beef 40%, chicken, cheese 1%, sweet potato, minerals, glycerine.
• Analytical constituents: crude protein 22.44%, crude oils and fats 19.1%, crude fibre 33.96%, crude ash 8.9%, moisture 15.6%.
• Pet Treats Wholesale publish the same Beef & Cheese analysis for the Burgers and for the Slices, so the two formats share these figures.
• The maker lists Gourmet Burgers as a 10-piece pack of 360–370g and as 1kg nets of 28–29 pieces. No pack weight is published for the size listed here.

Care & Caution

• Feed supervised. A whole burger is a mouthful a hungry dog can bolt, so break it up for a fast eater.
• At 19.1% crude oils and fats these are rich. Keep the quantity modest for a dog carrying weight or with a history of pancreatitis.