SmartHeart adult dog wet pouch 130g review

At around ₱36 as of August 1, 2026 for a 130g pouch, roughly ₱277 a kilo. It publishes 8% crude protein, 3% fat and up to 85% moisture, which puts it in a small group here.

Take the water out and the number changes completely

A wet pouch is mostly water, and the protein percentage on the label is measured including it.

Strip the water out and roughly 53% of what remains is protein. For comparison, a typical dry dog food runs around 25 to 30% protein at about 10% moisture, which is somewhere near 30% on the same basis.

So the pouch that looks weak on the label is the more protein-dense food, by a wide margin. That inversion runs through every wet product in this catalog, and SmartHeart is one of the few dog listings giving you the two figures needed to see it.

What a 130g pouch actually covers

A 10kg dog needs roughly 600 to 700 kcal a day, and a larger dog considerably more.

A 130g gravy-style pouch carries a small share of that, so feeding wet food alone means several pouches a day for a medium dog and a great many for a large one. At roughly ₱277 a kilo against dry food at a fraction of that, wet-only feeding is expensive in a way most people discover after the first week.

The normal pattern, and a sensible one, is kibble in the bowl with a pouch stirred through it. That gets the palatability and the moisture without the cost.

Adult only, and why the label matters more in dogs

This is labelled for adults.

Life stage matters more in dogs than in cats because of size. A puppy needs more calories and protein per kilo than an adult, and large-breed puppies need something extra: controlled calcium, because growing too fast on too much of it is linked to skeletal problems. That is why large-breed puppy foods exist as a separate category.

Feeding an adult maintenance food to a growing dog gets the first part wrong. Feeding an ordinary puppy food to a large-breed puppy gets the second part wrong. Neither is fixed by a wet topper.

Dogs are not small cats

Worth saying because the cat food advice nearby does not transfer.

Dogs are omnivores with flexible requirements. They are not obligate carnivores, they do not depend on dietary taurine the way cats do, and they use plant protein far better. A dog food is a genuinely different formulation problem from a cat food, and a dog can eat a broader diet safely.

What dogs are more sensitive to is weight. Obesity is the commonest preventable health problem in dogs, and a daily wet topper on top of a full bowl of kibble is exactly how it creeps in. Reduce the kibble when you add the pouch.

Who should buy the SmartHeart pouch

Buy this if you want a daily topper with a published analysis, your dog is an adult, and you will take a little kibble out to make room.

Skip it as a complete diet for anything larger than a small dog, where the cost per kilo is the problem.

Other dog food on this page

For a large can at a lower price per kilo, see the PetMarra meat loaf dog can 375g. For a cheaper pouch from the same format, the PetMarra chunks in gravy 130g is a few pesos less.