Barking Up the Right Street

Our custom has always been to buy good quality - read expensive - dog food in large quantities i.e. four /five sacks at a time and decant the sacks into food bins - read dustbins. The problem with that custom is it doesn't transfer easily to life aboard a narrowboat. One, there is not the space for large food bins and two, there is transportation difficulties in getting large sacks back along a towpath to the boat and that is if you can actually find a retailer of pet supplies anywhere near a canal.
So for the four months that we have been living aboard Caxton, dog food has been whatever I can get from the supermarkets in modest size sacks and that has frequently been Bakers. And Bakers is just fine as far as Fletcher and Floyd are concerned but then F&F are Labradors and anything vaguely masquerading as F O O D is consumed PDQ!

No, the dogs thought the content of their dinner bowls was just dandy, it was me that was getting concerned about a dog food that had bright green kibble and bright orange kibble amidst 'chewy bits' in yet another luminous colour. If I wouldn't eat food with these colourings in why was I feeding them to my mutts? The nutritional value of some of these add-ins is highly questionable according to several websites I have recently consulted. So I have avowed not to buy this kind of product again, instead I have gone for Barking Heads which contains no artificial additives at all.

Of course I have now to resolve how I get supplies when we move permanently aboard Caxton in a couple of months time and then where do I store it? Back to the drawing board then Einstein..