BarkBox Subscription Box Review & Coupon Code – July 2014

I always appreciate someone posting a warning like this…..thank you Chels! We have had BB for large dog for awhile now and haven’t had this issue. We received something one month that was questionable and never gave it to her. For Sept and Aug it was heavy on the toys and lighter on the food which I wasn’t happy about. Our pup has a kazillion toys. Here is what we received for Sept. I will say she loves the sweet potatoes, however, how can I delicately put this, hmmm…..well when she does her business it is very evident that she has eaten the sweet potato chips.

Safemade Pet Pawxford Pennant $7
Petsafe Indigo Smokehouse Strips – Bacon $7
Barkworthies Sweet Potato steak Fries $8
Etta Says Duck Chew – $4 this is one of those sticks that I don’t like to see, I am always afraid of choking and not sure if she will get this
Fabdog Pom Poms $10

Indigo chews had to be thrown out… My dog wound up swallowing a piece that was too big… Thankfully he threw it up himself but the awkward size of the bottom part of that chew wasn’t ideal!

I am on my fourth box from a groupon deal. So far I’m mostly happy with everything we’ve gotten. I can’t remember the names of everything, but here are some standouts.

Good Standouts
* Barkworthies Beef bladder chew from May box. My pup LOVED this. It lasted longer than any other chew we’ve had. I’ve had a hard time finding this exact chew though.
*Freeze dried beef from June box. These quickly turned into his bedtime treat. I found a similar treat at a pet store to tide us over until I can order these again.
*Corduroy Whale from July box. This is one of his absolute favorites now.
*Green super squeaky ball from May box. Sadly lost it’s squeak after about a month
*Banana chips were also a huge hit.

Bad Standouts
*SQUEAKERS! Quite a few squeakers have completely stopped working. I have a 10lb cavalier. He can’t do that much damage. The clam from July box wasn’t working out of the box.
*Crab treats from July box. He loves them, but they make me gag every time I open them up. Their smell is so very strong.
*Apple cobbler treats from May box were pretty much ignore.

I have been really happy overall. The value is definitely worth it. I spent well over the cost of the box on one trip to the pet store.

Just want everyone to know that those Indogo tiple chew dog bones gave my little puppy a bowel obstruction!!! Just cost me $150 at the vet for x-rays and an enema to help him pass it all! It literally looked like blue paste when he threw some of it up. He was one sick little puppy! DO NOT feed your dog those bones!

Just a heads up, if you sub to the large box and got the benebone nylon chew, make sure you watch your dog very carefully! My 40 lb. husky had the end of this demolished in less than 5 min. and when I looked, the surface was SUPER sharp where she had left a bunch of teeth marks. Fortunately I watch her closely with new toys and chews but I can see that if she had another 10 min with that chew she would have taken the end off and swallowed it. I threw it away

I get the large size although I consider my dog medium at about 50-60 pounds, but husband said to get the large and it’s been great. I can’t seem to get any better deal than $19/month for 6 months because i’m already subscribed when coupon comes out. When this runs out I will try and catch it and get the year since we don’t plan on ever stopping. I don’t have any repeats but some I wish we did. The only thing the same in my box is the pina colada smoothie and to my surprise Lucy wouldn’t eat it. She licked it for awhile then took it out of her bowl (we froze it) and just left it.
Here is what we received in our large dog box and I think anything here would be fine for a medium dog.

Loopies Fish Bones….a beautiful long blue fish. $15
Bixbi Daily Essentials Chicken Breast Jerky Treats $10
Healthy Dogma Coconut Flavor Barkers $8
Etta Says Duck Chew $4
Mr. Barksmith’s Pina Colada Smoothie (we did have this in a previous box in another flavor but lost it) $2

I would never subscribe to this if I had to pay the full 29.

My pup’s first box arrived. I got the April box. 🙁
The summer theme looked so fun.

What is up with that Indigo treat?! My dog is doing the same thing. She is uber picky with treats but went buck wild when we gave her the Indigo treat. But she’s not eating it…she is just guarding it with her life! I went to take a picture and she grabbed it and ran away from me like a bat out of hell. So crazy!

I subscribe to the medium BarkBox, I have a 50lb dog. This was our 2nd box through the groupon deal and I’m pretty happy about it.
1. We got a crab stuffed toy which my dog loves stuffed toys so that was a big hit. 2. We also got the Bixbi daily essentials chicken breast jerky treats. 3. The Indigo triple chews. 4. And the Healthy Dogma Blissful banana crisps which was only made with bananas and coconut oil which was pretty cool. I was a little nervous that our dog wouldn’t like the banana chips but so far so good.

I have subscribed for around 6 months and typically love it… The past 3 months have included practically the same items just slightly different flavors so I’m a bit bummed about that. Last month we even got an exact duplicate 🙁

This is box 2 of the Groupon deal. This is a medium-size dog box that is shared by a 15 lb dog, a 45 lb dog, and a couple of cats. They were circling the box as it was being opened. Last night the cats were playing in the box.

1. Harry Parker Play Shark Large Toy – My small dog decided it was hers. It is the size of her body! My big dog will take it back later. This is a sturdy toy.
2. A Pizzle stick which is being saved for later.
3. Indigo Triple Chews medium size – Both dogs enjoyed them.
4. Cool Treats Pina Colada. My small dog ran off with it.
5. Bixbi Daily Essentials Chicken Breast Jerky Treat. This must be what the cats were smelling. Both the cats and dogs had a treat.