The Farmer’s Dog Shows the Promise of Meal Delivery for Canines
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There was a time when there weren’t really that many options when it came to choosing dog food for your best friend. In fact, there were only three or four major brands to choose from just 20 or 30 years ago. If you wanted to keep your friend happy and well-fed, it was up to you to travel to the local feed or discount store and purchase one of those name brands or the local store brand. You didn’t really have any other options available. Today, all of that has changed. Now, you can choose from all kinds of different foods. This is both good and bad, depending on how you look at it. After all, there are more options today than there ever have been in the past so you can feed your dog whatever they need to be happy and healthy. With that being said, it can also get confusing because there are so many different brands to choose from that you might not know which ones are really the best. In addition, the food isn’t always easy to find, especially if you feed your dog one of the more specialized brands. Fortunately, a relatively new brand called The Farmer’s Dog is working to change all of that.
As previously mentioned, this brand hasn’t been around nearly as long as many of the other types of dog food that you can buy. That hasn’t stopped them from making quite a name for themselves, though. Typically, the company provides a mixture of wet and dry food in containers that are specially designed to be opened and fed to your dog immediately. That way, the food doesn’t sit around until it goes rancid and it’s more palatable to your dog from the beginning. Their goal is to provide high-quality dog food that is a healthier option for most dogs and make owners more aware of the best way to feed their dogs.
As you might have guessed, they recommend keeping the food sealed until it’s actually time to feed your dog and then only opening enough to feed them right then and there. They don’t recommend allowing the food to sit in the bowl all day long. Although many dog owners do exactly that, it’s something that more and more people are trying to convince others to get away from doing. Even with dry food that is sold in a bag, more and more veterinarians and dog nutrition experts are recommending that the food be left in the bag, placed in a sealed container, and only opened when it’s time for feeding. They recommend putting only enough food in the bowl to allow your dog to eat and then ensuring that anything that’s been left out for longer than four hours is thrown away. This is something that leaves a lot of dog owners scratching their heads, because it’s always been a practice to leave dog food open and exposed to the air indefinitely. However, you might want to look at it from this perspective, which is largely the stand that The Farmer’s Dog takes. You wouldn’t want to cook breakfast for yourself, leave it sitting until after lunch, and then eat it. When it really comes right down to it, you can say the same thing for your dog. Dogs really are more than pets. They’re family members, so they should be treated as such.
When you consider the fact that the type of food you provide for your dog, as well as the way you feed them, can have a dramatic impact on their overall health and life expectancy, it only makes sense that you choose to do everything in your power to allow them to be as healthy as possible. The Farmer’s Dog is taking the next steps to help you do exactly that by providing a delivery service. If you’ve ever found yourself running all over town searching for your particular brand of dog food, only to come up empty-handed, you know how important a meal delivery service for your dog can really be. In fact, it just might be the difference between feeding that high quality food and getting something of a much lesser quality because that was the only thing you could find at the store.
The Farmer’s Dog takes a much different approach than most traditional dog food companies. They’re looking at it from a point of view that takes into account how busy most people are these days. They want the best for their dogs, but they might not always be able to purchase the food themselves due to time constraints. This is largely the same thing as having a meal delivery service for you and your children, only it’s for your dog. In both cases, you’re getting high quality, nutritious food that’s good for the ones you love instead of settling for something that isn’t quite as good because you didn’t have time to find something better. That just might make The Farmer’s Dog one of the most unique dog food companies that’s ever existed.
