CopRice Working Dog Review

David D'Angelo 1 0

Before chucking a bag of Working Dog in the back of the ute, do you ever wonder whether it’s actually good for your dogs… or if it’s just cheap feed?

Some Aussie working dog foods do right by your dog, such as Black Hawk Working Dog, because – like you – they know meat proteins build and repair muscle, and animal fats are the best source of energy.

One thing in favour of CopRice Working Dog is it’s cheap. Much cheaper than what those city folk feed their Poodles.

But what does cheap really mean?

Read on, and you can decide for yourself.

CopRice Working Dog review

The first ingredient in CopRice WorkingDog is Beef and Chicken Meat with By-Products, which sounds great. By-products tend to have a bad rap, but our dogs would eat road kill given half the chance – because their natural instinct draws them to eating other animals.

But before you slap your cash down on the counter, pay attention to the next four or so ingredients, because these aren’t animal… they’re crops.

Rice, cereals (what cereals..?), rice bran, wheat bran… and cereal protein just after fat.

You may wonder if these grains are healthy for your hard working dog, or if they’re just a very cheap way to feed your farm animal without caring too much if they suffer poor health and joints a few years from now.

You may also wonder why there’s two rice ingredients, and two cereal ingredients?

Well, if they weren’t split into too, they’d have to list it first on the ingredients panel – before meat – which wouldn’t look good.

I bet you’d be willing to pay more for meat than rice, right?

If you don’t feel duped already, those two ambiguous cereal ingredients are probably wheat, which would make three wheat ingredients, two rice ingredients, to only one meat protein ingredient.

That sounds sucky for your working dog, doesn’t it?

And that’s pretty much the whole of the food.

So yes, CopRice Working Dog may appeal to you as a cheap feed for your horde of ravenous working dogs, but if you don’t throw them some real meats, organs, bones, or heck – whole prey – then I expect they won’t be too healthy come middle age. Unless you’re lucky.

Going back to Black Hawk Working Dog once again (linky at the top), you’ll find this to be a completely different working dog food, made with much more meat and fat to support your dog’s health and joints, and natural instinct.

Isn’t that worth a few extra bucks?

Where to buy

CopRice Working Dog is mostly available in rural stores.

Ingredients

The ingredients of CopRice Working Dog food:

Beef and Chicken Meat with By-Products, Rice, Cereals, Rice Bran, Wheat Bran, Beef Fat, Cereal Protein, Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids, Salt, Choline Chloride, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Vegetables, Calcium Propionate, Natural Antioxidants

Typical Analysis

The typical analysis of CopRice Working Dog food: