Last Friday, I told you about how I had gotten a moth-eaten bag of dog food from Petsmart. Well, as it turns out, it is just not my week for dog food of any sort. While I was at Kroger Tuesday, I decided to get my dogs a box of dental biscuits. Bailey's breath has been a little rank lately, and I thought that the biscuits would help. Plus, they were corn-free, dye-free, gluten-free, and by product-free so Bella could eat them without having to take a healthy dose of Benadryl beforehand.They sound too good to be true, right? They were. As I was still spooked by the Bugsmart incident--I still expect to be accosted by a drove of killer bugs every time I open the dog food bag--I examined the box before opening it and found that the biscuits had expired in October 2007, 16 months ago. I was not going to give something that old to my dogs so back to Kroger I went.
As it turns out, every box of those biscuits on the shelf went out in 2007. Maybe it was a typo, and the manufacturer meant to stamp 2009 on the side. Maybe it wasn't. Either way, I wasn't taking the chance of finding something worse than moths inside the box this time. I ended up buying Blue Dog Bakery biscuits instead. They were slightly more expensive, but at that point I didn't care. I just wanted to go home and be done with shopping. (I think it was Senior Citizen Discount Day because Kroger was packed.) Now I do, as the dogs aren't eating them. They're just carrying them around the house.
Yeah, it's definitely not my week for dog food. That's why I'm staying away from canned, bagged, boxed, and all other packaged forms of dog kibble. With the way my luck is going, I'm liable to find a snake or a black widow inside.
