The Farmer's DogReviews of thefarmersdog.com

This dog food gave my dog pancreatitis and he passed at 7 years old. It is cheaper and much healthier for you to cook your dog their food. I do not and never will recommend this brand, I’d give it a negative star rating if I could. I’d rather smash my balls between two encyclopedias before I feed this to another pet of mine.

Pancreatitis and High Fat Kills - If you want your dog to eat food, this is a good choice, your dog will find the fat delicious. Unfortunately, if you're anything like me & my dog, you will visit the vet, emergency vet, and clinics so many times that you'll stop counting after 10 and most likely because that's when the real crisis level has heightened so you're just going from one place to another searching what could be wrong with your dog and why he can't eat and is suffering. Then if you're lucky enough, a veterinarian doctor will see the pattern you show them with the food and the vomiting and then test your dog for pancreatitis and ask you to stop feeding them that food. I just hope that you learn this sooner than we did and that your dog gets to live. I hope the staff that receives these pancreatitis complaints will choose a more honest career path for themselves in the future. I hope the person reading this considering this product will pause and discuss this and other food as options with the veterinarian doctor that will be by your side trying to save your dog's life in the end and not the veterinarian doctors that have chosen employment in marketing for a dog-food company that is absent of food trials and ignoring the risks of a high-fat diet.

First complaint is the way they conduct their business. Every other company to which I have a repeat delivery such as Chewy, Walmart, IHerb, Earthing Co.. and so on, message you in advance to make any changes. I had a heck of a time getting my dogs adjusted to the change therefore needed to change the delivery date. My dogs do not do well with grains and I didn't realize the first order had grains. Second order I was able to make sure to opt out of grains. It was piling up so I changed delivery date and instead of starting over from that point which every single other company does... they shipped the new delivery date plus the old one without confirming order. I was overdrawn on my account because of this and I keep a tight budget even checking my account at least 2 times a day. I messaged them and instead of compensating me or making it right in any way they just dismissed the fact they shipped a double order back to back disregarding my overdraft. When you change a delivery date that should be it. It should recalculate from that point moving forward. Not ship that one plus the old delivery date. That doesn't even make sense. In addition they ought to send you a notification ahead of schedule to make any changes. All other auto deliveries I have practice this. For this reason alone I wanted to cancel. But I put so much effort into changing their food I was just going to let it go. But now, one dog still doesn't care for it but it's all she has so she will eat it because there is no choice. But my biggest concern is my best eater who never complains is now not eating this food after she seems to have developed a pancreatic upset. She is vomiting and had loose stools. I'm so over this company. I have to go back to cooking my dogs food fresh every single day which is what I was trying to not do. I love my dogs more than anything and they deserve the best health and love and I so wanted farmer's dog to be a part of their care but it turns out I am sorely disappointed.

I have two bulldogs. One that can have grains and one that cannot. A 36 lb Frenchie and a 70 lb English bulldog. I’ve ordered a few times. The dogs enjoy the food. My last shipment the labels were wrong. Not only were the labels wrong for each dog, I soon realized some said chicken and they were clearly beef. I reached out. I took pictures, pealed back the label as requested. Then received an email telling me to “go on ahead and switch the labels to the correct bag.” What should have happened was your company should have offered to pay for shipping to take this entire order back, and send a new order. If you had the bag back maybe you could scan it and see who didn’t label the correct dog or the correct food and provide some education to that employee. There are so many of these companies to choose from. Telling me to switch the labels was not the outcome I was looking for, nor is it an indicator or high business standards. One dog cannot have grains.

My vet recently told me that the fat content is too high so I shouldn’t use it anymore. My personal opinion is it is too watered down and smells terrible.

I didn't have any issues until 2026, something in their billing system changed and I started receiving shipments I did not order. Then in April, they charged my account and I received an order. But, then a week later, they charged my account for an order I did not request or receive. I called them, and they insisted I did place an order and that it was delivered to me, it was NOT. Fast forward to May, the same issue again, I received an order, but they charged my card again so this time I received a double order. They double billed ne for April and May, when I called to hopefully resolve this issue, their representatives were rude and unhelpful. I have canceled this account, it's a shame because my dog liked this food but I refuse to deal with a company I can't trust. They are double billing senior citizens and people with families who can't afford this double billing. With the way I was treated, I will never again consider referring anyone to your business again, delete my account and do not contact me ever again.

FYI-I'M IN THE TOP 20% OF GOOGLE REVIEWS. THIS REVIEW IS BASED ON FACT WITH MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: UPDATE: Farmer's dog has reached out to me and they are refunding not only the cancellation subscription fee that I mentioned in this review but also my original order. They also said they were going to look into the situation on why I was charged and why I wasn't canceled when I requested. Lesson learned on subscriptions with companies be careful and be aware. UPDATE ON REPLY FROM FARMER'S DOG: thank you for reaching out and replying I just wanted you to know that I did read and reply and I appreciate it and I hope the readers will take all of this into consideration! Sorry it didn't work out. SUBSCRIBERS BEWARE On June 2nd I canceled my subscription & this morning, June 6, I woke up and there was a charge from them for my subscription. Since I canceled they do not have my permission to charge my bank account and that is fraud. I looked this up before I used the term fraud and if a business charges your account after you have documentation that you canceled their subscription & documentation they accepted your cancellation, then that is a form of fraud. I would be happy to post a screenshot of the documented request for cancellation and the documented reply of my subscription was canceled, on this platform if asked.

Staff is totally unknowledgeable. It looks like they are taking information on your dogs and will tailor the package. Both my dogs have health issues. Both came back with the same recommendations (different only in quantity of food because of their weight and activity level) and if purchased would have made their health conditions worse. One was minor - a food allergy. The other would have caused her to have bladder stones requiring surgery. This was one of the health conditions I selected (oxalate stones) from their list and yet they still selected a high protein diet for her. High protein diets should be avoided in dogs with oxalate stones. I wrote back several times and they said that I can always change and tailor my selection of food and that their protein is high quality. Quality doesn’t matter; human grade doesn’t matter. High protein foods should not be given to dogs with oxalate stones or those prone to them. Never. They totally missed the point that they should never have recommended the food they did in the first place. After going back and forth with them 4 times, I decided I needed to write a review and let the world know that they mechanically crank out their recommendations without thought. If you think you are getting something tailored because they ask about health conditions, you are being fooled.