We have a 7 month old Akita and he is now on Wainwrights, his coat is lovely and there are not any signs of upset tummy.
The manager recommended wainwrights in our local pet shop, the contents of meat are ok, but it is the nutriants you have to look at as well, we are no experts, but our dog is happy on the Wainwrights product, I think it is personnal preference, some might say it is cost. Wainwrights isn't the cheapest, but I'm sure there is a reason for that.

I have seen 15KG bags of food for £10.00, but I wouldn't risk it on my dog, you do get what you pay for. or at least I hope so.

Thanks Pete & Barnie the Akita

Of those two wainwrights is clearly the best. 4% meat is as Jackson posted, a bit of a joke.

I'm not a fan of James Wellbeloved myself, not since it was taken over by masters food, plus my dog didn't do well on it, extreme wind, coat not great etc. I have used the wainwrights wet food, but never the dry. I found the wet to be good quality. I can highly recommend both Arden Grange and Orijen.

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I've used both Wainwrights and Beta and would say that Wainwrights is a much better quality food.

My boy's been on Wainwrights for about 6 weeks now. His coat looks great and feels soooooft even though he's got big dog fur now. he loves Turkey and Rice one, athough he is a lab and in all likelihood would eat a lump of coal if you put it in his bowl. The breeder I got him from feeds all of her dogs Beta and they all look fantastic but I was eager to give my boy the best food I could afford and Pets At Home were doing a special offer on Wainwrights. Even for full price it's a very reasonably priced high quality feed IMO. It's no Burns or Orijen but let's face it, they can't be eating gourmet 3 Michelin star everyday, right?

I'm actually moving him off Wainwrights this week and onto Arden Grange. Not because I dislike Wainwrights but because he's got a slight coprophagia problem and I've tried everything, including worming him to stop it. He developed this horrible habit while I was changing from Wainwrights to Skinners so maybe it was the Skinners (more likely as it had maize in it) but now I'm just looking to completely uphaul his diet in case it's in any way related. You might also like to know that Wainwrights is hypoallergenic as is Arden Grange. I'm sticking to hypoallergenic stuff just in case. At least this way you'll know there are no fillers in the food.

I swopped my pup from beta that she was weaned onto to Wainwrights puppy and she did well on it. Only problem I had was that she wasnt always too keen to eat it.

Switched her to Skinners hypoallergenic adult and she seems happier with this but Wainwrights still gets my vote as a good puppy food.

I'm a big fan of skinners, my dogs are doing great on it, they ove the salmon and rice and the duck and rice. And I'm not saying you shouldn't use puppy food (I did) but if you look at ingredients, you wont actually see much, if any difference between adult and puppy foods. Seems you just pay for the 'puppy' gimmick. I know plenty of people who never bothered and put their dogs and adult food from day one and there dogs are doing just as well as mine.

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out of those two wainrtights wins hands down its a whole eap better food

It's good that you're all trying to help, but if you check out the first page of this thread, you'll see that it's 18 months old. I think that the OP has sorted it by now.

i have got a 2year old dogue de bordeaux and believe me i have tried every dog food going. wet. dry raw. and was told about wainwrights duck and rice. and i have never looked back. although he eats 4 to five trays a day with small bite mixer. dont ask me why. hes never been healthier. as a dog who suffered from chronic colitos. he has never had it since eating this food i would recommend it to fussy dogs as well