The brand of dog food I buy my dog has a guarantee on the bag that says it “guarantees great taste” or money back. How is that determined? If my dog doesn’t eat it, does that mean that it doesn’t taste good? My dog eats garbage; literally.
Wasn’t there one brand of dog food got into trouble for testing its food on animals?
Anyway, M&S uses a human to test for taste and texture. Link to news article
I don’t know; but being near the end of this deprivation diet has me eyein’ those little dust balls in his bowl with some mighty strong curiousity…:eek:
It means exactly what you assumed. If the dog won’t eat it, you get your money back. I have returned several bags in my time with that guarantee. My dogs are picky eaters and throwing away a 20 dollar bag of food when they offer the “guarantee” would be silly.
Because “tastes like garbage, or your money back!” was a really terrible slogan.
Is this some new initiative to combat a household’s carbon footprint?
Bag tags? Blue box? Grey box? Green bin? Fido-munch 3000?
They employ a ‘dog whisperer’ at all of their retail locations.
“My dog didn’t like this food, so I’m returning it.”
“Oh, really? What do you say about that, Fido?”
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“You loved it? Well, isn’t that interesting. Wait, what’s that?”
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“He kicks you how many times a day?”
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“He makes you lick peanut butter off of what?!”
“Um, look, never mind, I’ll just go.”
But I have never had any food-canine or human-that my dog didn’t relish. So it seems like a meaningless guarantee (in my dog-owning experiences, that is).
Other dogs are different. Mine is a fussy eater.
They need to just go ahead and make dog food in CatPoop flavor and get it overwith. My dog would be ECSTATIC. As it is, he follows the cats around with his nose up their butts like they’re pez despensers. And there’s little chance he’s actually even had THEIR poop, since they are very clean and have a whole room that’s ‘No Dogs Allowed’ just for them.
But yeah. CatPoop Flavor, a guaranteed winner!
Have a human test THAT, hehe.
You are fortunate in that case. Not only are my dogs fussy about their every day food they are fussy about dog treats. They won’t eat milk bones, or anything hard or crunchy as a treat. They won’t even take it from me, just walk away with their noses in the air. I felt bad for my parents because sometimes when we are on our walks, I stop by their house which is in the same neighborhood. (That isn’t why I feel bad). They decided to buy this huge bag of dog bones from Sams to give my guys when they come over. The spoiled dogs wanted nothing to do with them. I believe my folks ended up giving them to the animal shelter.
I’ve had a problem with finicky dogs before. Yes, the very same dogs who would eat each others’ poo. I once bought food that smelled so good I was tempted to try it. They wouldn’t touch it.
My latest dog doesn’t like long-chew treats that would get him out of my hair while I’m trying to work. Pig ears, greenies, milk bones, none of it. What he will do, however, is pretend. He’ll take it, go outside, and then 2 minutes later he is back begging again. “What, you ate it already? Here’s another one.”
He was going and hiding the things in the back yard.
He also refuses to take treats from anyone but “Daddy” or myself. He has done it once, at the dog park, in 4 years, and it was a soft treat, much of which he then dropped on the ground.