I went to the pet store today. I’m not going to spill the beans about the reason why just yet.
I saw there were 100 kinds of dog food. I didn’t notice so many the last time we had a dog, which was, heck, just a few months ago. Has there been a boom in this marketing sector? I suppose I just bought the Standard Thing at the grocery store before.
So what’s up with dog food?
How much of the expense — and content — is due to marketing?
It’s all so healthy, holistic, organic, natural…and named enough like subdivisions that I’m skeptical. “Whispering Winds”…
Or maybe I’m just a cynic. Maybe it’s a reasonable sort of small biz startup for pet lovers? They get to work with food ingredients to make pets happy and healthy. Why not?
When our sweet ol’ Daisy was ailing I came across a sizeable culture of diet-cure for her aching hip trouble. It was more for German Shepherds but it made me wonder. It had pet-owners basically whipping up fried rice with a few high-octane additives. Mostly it seemed like something *I* should be eating.
Would dogs be better off eating people food?
My uncles used to catch a pile of suckers and smoke ’em and stash ’em somehow for their pasture full of beagles. Is a working dog diet a good one?
Maybe we’ll now find a new bigger need for a chest freezer and the local roadkill. I wouldn’t mind. I can butcher deer faster than I can earn money, it seems.
Yeah, I have dog food sticker shock. I think I went into the premium aisle first. I saw little bags of dog food for $16. With descriptions that read like menus of restaurants I wished I could go to.
We need good food cheap.
