Pawtential Collagen Chew Small – Salmon Flavour Single 36g Stick

Pawtential Collagen Chew – Salmon, Small 36g

This is the small stick in Pawtential’s salmon recipe: 36g, 104 kcal, and sized for a terrier or a spaniel rather than a labrador. Like the rest of the range it is built on beef gelatine at 64% rather than rawhide, so it gives a dog something firm to work at without the digestibility problems hide can bring.

Worth knowing before you buy: salmon is a 4% inclusion here and chicken breast makes up 12%, the lowest poultry level of the four flavours but still enough to matter if your dog reacts to chicken. The fish is a flavour, not the bulk of the stick.

Performance & Benefits

• Rawhide-free chewing on a 64% beef gelatine base.
• Crude protein 68% with crude fat of just 3%.
• 104 kcal per stick, so it fits a small dog’s daily allowance without dominating it.
• Salmon at 4%, with flaxseed oil and 300mg/kg vitamin E in the recipe.
• Sized for small mouths — 36g is roughly a third of the large stick.
• Firm but not brittle; it softens as the dog works at it.

Suitable For

• Small dogs, and light chewers of any size.
• Owners moving away from rawhide chews.
• Dogs that prefer a fish note to beef or chicken flavour.
• A short occupier — twenty minutes of quiet rather than an afternoon.
• Not suitable for a dog that must avoid poultry, since chicken breast is 12% of the stick; and a powerful chewer will go through a 36g stick in minutes, so the 110g large is the better buy there.

Feeding

• Complementary pet food. Feed as a treat alongside a nutritionally balanced diet.
• Allow 104 kcal per stick against your dog’s daily intake.
• One chew at a time, with fresh drinking water available.
• Supervise your dog for as long as the chew is down.
• Introduce gradually if your dog has not had a collagen chew before.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: beef gelatine 64%, chicken breast 12%, pea protein powder, vegetable glycerine, salmon 4%, bell pepper powder, minerals, flaxseed oil, carob flour.
• Nutritional additives: vitamin E 300mg/kg. Also contains a preservative and rosemary extract.
• Analytical constituents: crude protein 68%, crude fat 3%, crude fibre 2%, inorganic matter 3%, moisture 16%.
• Energy: 291 kcal per 100g; 104 kcal per 36g stick.
• Product code 272866, barcode 5019146728667. One stick per listing.
• The maker’s own page for this stick describes it as made with collagen and peanut butter; that wording belongs to the peanut recipe, and there is no peanut in the salmon composition above.

Care & Caution

• A 36g stick reduces quickly to a swallowable size — take the last piece away rather than letting the dog gulp it.
• Supervise your dog for the whole time the chew is being eaten.
• Contains chicken and beef gelatine as well as salmon; avoid it if your dog reacts to poultry or beef.