BarkBox Subscription Box Review & Coupon – September 2015

I got almost the same box (also for a small dog- mine is 20 lbs). We didn’t get those freeze-dried treats though. I wonder if they were just missing? I saw something a few months back about returning items that don’t work for your pup? I can’t remember what it said though. My dog also doesn’t like dry (or super healthy) treats, and only likes plush toys!

I wish we had gotten any of the featured toys. My pup got the medium size box (though we are signed up for the small size) and it had only 1 toy this month, a first ever in our 2 years with bark box. It was a rather small puzzle treat ball. My dog loves puzzle toys but this one was not very well designed unless you use maybe some bird seed since the holes were miniscule. We did get quite a few treats though, 2 full size bags plus a bacon flavored wishbone Buddy has drug all over the house and yard for the last week and a beef knee (blech to me but he loves it). Here’s hoping we see a plush toy or two again next month.

Those Durasqueak toys are quite durable. I can trust Nyx with it (she got a large one in some box or other) when I am not at home, and I can’t say that about very many toys. That is actually one of the first toys I’ve seen from BarkBox that is suitable for heavy chewers (I mean, like, really heavy chewers).

We have a medium-sized Sheltie who’s not at all destructive, but is very, very into treats (all food, actually). He loves, loves, loves his Bark box — and can tell when it’s the Bark Box and not one of my boxes, probably by smell. We got the frog toy, the liver treats (a particular favorite – I’m using them for a specific training purpose), the biscuits (which got added to his treat jar), some roasted knuckles and another toy that I can’t recall offhand.

As you probably know, big dog people get different boxes. We had the frog theme, but got different toys and treats. I have three medium to large dogs and they get so excited about their monthly BarkBox that now they think every package that comes to the house is for them. So all my subscription boxes get me surrounded by excited pups that can’t wait to see inside. 😀 The toys are always great and they love playing with fresh toys. Plus, they manage to destroy a toy a month, on average, so it fuels the circle of life. I like when they send bagged treats because I can distribute evenly. Each month they send a large, single serve treat, so I just save those up until everyone can have one. So if there are people out there with multiple dogs, you don’t have to get multiple boxes. It works well for three. I could see it working for four, too…a half bag of treats and a toy to share—the perfect monthly treat!

Oh, yay! Thanks for doing a small-dog review (I seem to only ever see ones for big dogs).

I just ended my sub because there are too many treats in there for a 10lb dog. But, I still like knowing what to pick up from the Bark Shop if I see something awesome.