Happy Dog Food Germany - Page 1

Hi Members,
Any ideas about Happy Dog Food Germany
 

I happen to be their distributor in Jordan. Very good food, they offer 3 categories,supreme, premium and essential/economic. They also offer recipes for sensitive dogs and one recipe grain free. All their food is free of artificial colorings and preservatives. The manufacturer and staff are some of the most nice and sincere people I've ever known.
Their food contains good herbs and decent quantity of meat. They do not use vegetable protein substitute like Soya. Some of the foods have meat as 1st ingredient while others have it 2nd. Price/ Quality ration in my opinion is good.

Ibrahim

Hi there, a friend of mine imports and sells it here in Ireland. We had always used another well known brand however I have no hesitation in saying that the quality and value for money of Happy Dog food is excellent. There is a variety of flavours and I have found that the sport/working dog food is excellent for maintaining weight and muscle. Dogs' coats are always shiny and they love their food!. 

I also feed my dogs Happy Dog,,they do well on it.Adults are given Profi-Linie 26/16 and 30/20 in winter,young dogs are fed Maxi Baby 29 and Maxi Junior 23.I like that the proteins in Maxi Junior 23 /for pups from 5 months of age/ are lowered so that the dogs don´t grow too fast. Some of my young dogs suffered pano when they were fed high protein foods in the past. No problems with pano since I switched my pups on lower proteins in that critical age.

Never used this food, so no first hand experience.
However looking at the ingredients I see lots of maize, maize flour, etc. Maize = Corn..... Also I noticed few with "meat meal" = which meat, from what animal? But at the p[rice point of approximately $64 for 12.5kg , I guess its not too bad....
Note that there is also few varieties without corn in them, but they run for quite bit more (Africa)...$90 per 12.5kg.


 

Cage
Relating Pano in dogs to high protein diet is just a non proven theory...

"Another theory is that the recent trend in high-protein dog foods is to blame. The idea here is that protein accumulation in the bone marrow leads to swelling inside the bone. Because the bone is a rigid structure and cannot expand, pressure is exerted on the blood vessels leading to tissue death, inflammation and the panosteitis phenomenon. This is still just a theory."

"In summary, panosteitis is a self-limiting disease affecting many of the long leg bones, predominately in large dogs between 5 and 18 months old. It is apparently unrelated to other lesions of the skeletal or blood systems, and occurs only in the canine, more in some breeds than others. Cause is unknown, but high-protein diets seem to make symptoms worse or longer lasting. Panosteitis is “self-limiting”, i.e., it will “go away” whether one treats it or not. Since afflicted dogs “outgrow” the disease with little or no expense, it is unlikely much research funding will become available to study it. The dog owner should consult his veterinarian to rule out other problems that may be more serious."
 

Fed Happy Dog in the 1980's. Not happy about the food. As said above it used to be a soft corn mush. I feed my dog grain-free/raw food now and would never go back to Happy Dog.

got stuck once or twice having to feed it in a pinch when overseas. dogs would have been better off if i had cut some of that delicious rosemary basted rotisserie chicken in my gluten free alpen muesli and fed that. but the chicken carried the big M brand - mine and mine alone and the pooches had to make do. the HD feeds also don't seem to shine in the german reviews (​http://www.testberichte.de/f/1/2932/39387/1.html) where plenty of cereal, in one form or another, doesn't seem to negatively influence rankings.