Honestly good dog food 🐶

Dogs nutritional needs are unique depending on their age, breed, size, and lifestyle. Puppies feeding amounts can change month to month as they grow.

Puppies eat lots for their small sizes as they grow, and go through several growth phases. Use a dog feeding calculator to determine the quantities of food best for your dog. Bigger dogs that grow very fast will need a large breed dog food.

Puppies should also split their food over more servings, eating 4 times a day until 4 months old, then 3 months a day until fully grown.

Adult dogs are safer eating twice a day rather than 1 time per day.

There is no one, single thing that dogs need to eat. The most common food types to feed dogs are:

1. Dry food – good value and very convenient.
2. Wet food – good value but bought a can at a time. Needs to be refrigerated.
3. Raw food – expensive but done well, is perhaps the best thing for dogs.

Woah, a dry dog food brand recommending raw food? What gives. Yes, raw can be great but it is quite expensive, a lot of work and needs very sterile preparation as dodgy raw food can have disastrous consequences. So it’s great, but not possible for everyone.

Wet dog food is typically low quality and contains a lot of glycerin to make it shelf-stable without going off.

Dry dog food varies wildly in quality. Most dry dog foods (a.k.a. kibble) are not very healthy in our opinion and with so many kibble options it’s almost impossible to tell. Scratch is built as the ultimate kibble – selling direct to you so we can spend more on our sustainable Australian ingredients and give you full transparency along the way.

We’re dog food nerds and obsess over every ingredient and part of our supply chain to get your dog the best food, each and every time.

We’ve optimised every part of our business to put dogs first:

1. We skip stores and only sell directly to you so we can sell for the same price but afford an extra 45% on ingredients
2. Most kibble sits in store shelves and warehouses for months. We only sell on subscription so we know when your dog needs food, and can time when we make it to send your dog food that’s been made fresh.
3. We run things like a good old fashioned business – make enough to be sustainable and look after your team but we’re responsible with money and growth to keep Scratch great value. We’re not trying to be the biggest – the most trusted.

Yes, and unfortunately dogs get food poisoning from bad food all too often. In Australia, there is no mandatory recall for dog foods so it’s not public knowledge but hundreds of dogs have died in recent years from dodgy food.

It’s why Scratch dog food is transforming dog food with better ingredients, more transparent labelling and good old fashioned honesty.