Because Chewy.com was bought out by Petsmart, many of the higher end dog foods are pulling out of Chewy.com…sadly.
The idea is that Petsmart is a large box store and some of the better foods don’t want to be sold alongside foods like well, beneful!
I was really sorry to hear that Chewy was bought by Petsmart as well. Chewy has been a great company to do business with.
I don’t KNOW that this is what lauralite is talking about. However, I am dealing with Acana and Orijen pulling out of Chewy.com for these reasons and I’m GUESSING Fromm may feel the same.
I will buy Benefit wet occasionally as a treat for my dogs. Normally around holidays so they can have their Thansgiving, Easter or Christmas treat. We normally split one container between 1 medium dog and 2 large dogs. I tend to get the ones with peas and carrots so it looks more like stew. For a treat a few times a year it really won’t hurt them. It actually looks appetizing unlike some of the other canned food.
I was feeding it to Casey my Eskimo dog for a few weeks. He went on food strike and decided he just was not that into eating . He was losing more weight that I wanted him to. We would add about 2-3 Tablespoons of the wet Beneful per meal to his dry food and mix it in. Our guys eat twice a day. It was just to try to get him to eat. It was a brand I knew he liked so so it was an easy fix and the container made it easy to store the leftovers in the fridge between meals. I also figured it would be short term and really a top dressing not his meal. It wasn’t worth doing any research and experimenting to figure out what he would eat that was better quality.
Canids are designed to eat other animals: muscle, bone, organs, skin.
Good dog foods contain these as the first several ingredients.
If you have a picky eater, often offering an occasional bone-in, skin on raw chicken thigh, a 73% lean raw burger patty, ground turkey, raw liver, eggs…
…or adding canned fish to their food will make it tempting. Or (gasp) animal fat, like beef trims, lard, unsalted butter (NOT margarine or oils, etc.)
I feed Victor dog foods - Chewy still sells that and it is well priced and US sourced.
Please read your labels and feed your dog as he needs.
This is basically it.
I received a letter via email from Chewy.com that they wouldn’t be carrying Fromm anymore, but that they still had some in stock. I don’t know if they didn’t have much of a supply or if someone went and really stocked up, but the next time I went to order they didn’t have any. I started sourcing other places to buy it and ended up at petflow.com thanks to a recommendation here, but while they have the same shipping price they don’t have the same shipping speed. So I ran out.
ETA: while my first shipment from petflow took a week, my second shipment came in two days. I’m not sure if that is a sign they are trying to be a little bit more like chewy or not, but I’m hopeful. That said, I’d rather have a consistent shipping speed so I can predict when I need to reorder. Two days sometimes and a week sometimes is just frustrating.
