Item: The Farmer's Dog
Rating: 1
Author: Jesse A

The Farmer's Dog makes fresh, pre-portioned pet food delivered to your door.

The Farmer’s Dog was founded by two dog lovers who were fed up with the ever-growing gap between how pet food was marketed (Wolves! Nature! T-bone steak!) and how it was actually made (Inedible meats! Rendered powders! Extreme processing!). They wanted to make it easier for owners to care for their beloved dogs — starting with truly healthy pet food options. 

Our recipes are developed in partnership with vets to meet dogs' health needs, but made to human-food safety and quality standards. And we deliver it fresh, in ready-to-serve, pre-portioned packs. Better for them, easier for you.

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The Farmer’s Dog earns polarized reviews: many report healthier coats, better energy, calmer digestion, and enthusiastic eating, while others cite gastrointestinal upsets, greasy texture, and no improvement versus kibble. Strengths include visible, human‑grade ingredients and attentive, compassionate gestures, but repeated complaints target messy, non‑resealable packaging, strong odor, freezer space demands, and inconsistency in texture or batches—making it effective for some dogs yet impractical or unsuitable for others.

The Farmer's Dog

The Farmers Dog Food

Pet Food

What do you recommend to buy instead I have a miniature dachshund and he eat his food only once a day and I buy him a Acana dog food you have any recommendations for me he is 11 months old. thank you 🙏

Thanks for sharing! We’re thrilled he loves the beef recipe, and we’re always happy to help make things as flexible as possible for you both. Give Jackson some extra belling scratches from us 😊

Everywhere I look,it’s hills science diet or purina pro plan

Check out my review from today. Hope that helps. 

Check out my review from today. Hope that helps

We’re sorry to hear Juno didn’t have the results you were hoping for. While our initial portion recommendation is just a starting point, this can be adjusted anytime through your Customer Account or by contacting our Customer Care team at care@thefarmersdog.com. We’d be happy to help you find the right portion size to support Juno’s weight loss goals.  Our door is always open if you’d like to give it another try!

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My french bulldog has always had digestive issues. I had tried royal canine, Stella and chewy, instinct, taste of the wild, and home cooking food. I had tried limited ingridient, grain, grain-free and semi raw diets and nothing was able to get her pooping regularly, without blood and at a consistent firmness. Farmers dog has been the solution for us and I would 100% recommend this food particularly for a french bulldog. Weight management has also been incredibly easy since switching. 

My dogs love Farmer's Dog food! The meals are personalized per dog and come portioned. They truly seem like they care about my dog's health. My dogs get excited each time I pull one out of the fridge. They aren’t smelly and easy to handle.

Before putting Ranger on an all raw diet we had him on The Framers Dog for the first few weeks since it’s slightly cooked let food. It was a great way to switch him into eating on a fully raw diet at 12 weeks old. I would highly reccomend this over kibble and if you are wanting to transition your pups from kibble to all raw this is the way to get their body started. 

Stay away from FD!! My dog liked it at first but then started starving himself before eating it again. The packs come inconsistent in color and texture. Soggy super mushy!  Every time there are throw away packs because it just didn’t look right. So freaking expensive to not be what you ordered!!! I see why some people’s complaints are medical issues. I wish some agency would look into all these negatives against FD!!! It’s highway robbery to do what they’re doing and endangering some people’s dogs!! I can make something much better for much less!!! Do yourself a favor and don’t believe everything on there ads!!  If you decide to order you’ll eventually see for yourself!!! Consider yourself warned by more than just I. If you love your pet make or buy something safe and consistent. It shouldn’t break the bank to feed your dog healthy. Thank you for reading. 🤞🏽 

My pups loved the Farmers Dog food. They specialize it to your pups needs and it comes frozen. You cns defrost it and portion it into what your pup needs based on size. It was high quality and they really enjoyed it.

The Hoomans gives this to us and we love it. We go absolutely bananas for the beef and chicken flavors and seriously lose it. We can’t help it, we have such bad manners when we see the farmers dog in our bowls,we eat this food like animals! We like the easy intake instructions about how much we need even though you can’t trust a dachshund to give you the exact amount. Not only do we love the taste, but it keeps us healthy, and our coats, shiny, and our poops pretty small which we hear is a good thing.. One of us, Roscoe, is 17 and still going strong,so this stuff is good! We’ve tried other fresh food brands and this one we really like. Plus we love the free Tupperware container! Yum Yum Yum woof! Xo Puck and Ross. 

What could be improved are the pre-portioned plastic pouches the food comes in. It often was cumbersome and messy to cut the top of the plastic pouch and squeeze the right amount of food out. Not to mention, having that much 'fresh' food in the fridge, even if it was in a plastic pouch and a container still had a smell to it and didn't seem to keep well. 

Completed the online quiz/funnel to determine what kind of food and how much was right for my 27-pound mixed rescue pup. Ended up going with the Beef and Turkey food subscription for about 4 months, and the fresh food was used as a topper to her dry food.

Overall, my dog gobbled up the first two servings of the food, but after that, she was not interested in it anymore. 

My dog loves her custom food from Farmer's Dog. I had to reach out to customer service because I have been trying to help her gain weight, and they were able to add extra protein to her recipe. My only complaints are that I think the plastic packs that the food comes in should have a perforated edge so that I don't have to use scissors to open the pack every single day. Also, it would be easier if you could better customize the delivery date of the shipment. 

I just recently tried the farmers dog for my Frenchie and chihuahua and they were a huge fan! I liked that there were no nonsense ingredients either! Definitely would buy again especially if there’s a sale 

Unfortunately this food didnt work for my Juno. I switched because he has a sensitive stomach and need to lose some weight. Love that i was able to choose the flavors as he cannot have chicken but instead of losing weight he gained so we had to quit using this product 

Honestly, I think the best thing they can do is keep doing what they are doing and maybe add some new flavors to the choices. Right now they have three options.  Also, at some point they can expand and build a community of dog owners who can connect with each other.   Possibly send a branded refrigerator container that hold the open package better than the cardboard one that arrives each month.  We're hooked so this could be for loyal customers!

We have a King Charles Cav that was overweight and consistently getting ear infections.  We moved to The Farmer's Dog and life changed immediately for Hank.  He loves the food, his weight is better and no more ear infections.  Our vet was tremendously impressed with the changes in Hank and so are we.  In addition, the food shipping and communications with the team from Farmer's Dog is wonderful. 

Our dog Jackson has been on the Farmer's Dog since he was a puppy and he absolutely loves it. He's very allergy prone so he only eats their beef offering but they've been fabulous to work with. The customer service is great — they're more than happy to adjust our schedule or ship to another location if we're traveling. 

The packages are a bit messy and sort of wasteful. I wish there was another way other than the plastic packaging. 

The Farmer's Dog is such a customer-centric company. My dog is obsessed with the food (she went on a hunger strike when I gave her just kibble) and the packages are easy to measure out of. There is variety to what she eats and I love that it'll lengthen her lifespan <3

My shih tzu is picky about food and has a sensitive tummy.  She became a quick fan of human grade food through The Farmer’s Dog.  She has tried other frozen brands but seems to prefer the taste from The Farmer’s Dog.  We have been mixing a little bit of kibble with her soft food.  She prefers the beef.  The food looks tasty enough for humans to eat!

Price is tough with the economy but trying to make it work, as long as I can. She is my baby and I will remove luxury things I need to make sure she is the happiest I can be. But a special or discount every once in a while would be wonderful. 

My dog loves every recipe. We started our sweet 8 week old puppy on 1/2 kibble and 1/2 fresh topper and she is now 5 months old and health arms they come. No allergies, healthy stool, phenomenal shiny coat, and gaining weight perfectly. Knowing I am feeding her right and knowing I’m going to add years on her life means more to me than anything. Healthy gut is key to everything. 

My dog has always been a very picky eater. He LOVES The Farmer’s Dog food. He goes nuts when I take it out of the fridge and gobbles it down, something he had never done before.  He is slowly losing weight, and would do better if I could break his habit of begging for treats - or my habit of giving in to his begging.  It took him about a week for his intestines to adjust.  My only issue is the price, but my little guy is worth it!

I have only been a loyal customer of The Farmer’s Dog for a few months now, and at first I was extremely satisfied with my trial order . However, my recent order was truly disappointing, both for me and my dog. First off, there was barely any pieces of meat in this order, while the first had visible pieces of chicken. The new food batch on the other hand came out very watery, and  there is a significant decrease in the amount of food given. 40 g  difference between the trial order (577g/package and 534g/package in the new order) I would love to continue supporting this company as a customer, however, the customer service was not efficient, I sent 2 emails with pictures, receiving no answers, and when I called, I was told the weigh can vary from 1 batch to another (40g difference is a lot!), that they changed the recipe, and cannot do anything for me. I hope we can find a solution to this problem, as I now have over 20 packs of this new dog food that my dog won’t eat! 

My 5 yr old beagle, Ollie, is severely overweight. I began the trial program and am now on 2nd shipment, which came exactly on time.  He LOVES the food and after about 5 weeks he is visibly losing weight and more active. An added bonus, his allergies have all cleared up, including a constant ear infection.  I am very happy customer. Ollie thanks you. :-)

This is the only food that my dog will eat that doesn't make her sick. The quality of ingredients is great & the packaging & shipping is efficient & high quality. 

Farmer’s Dog is fantastic! My pup Auggie, loved it 😍 He would rather eat Farmer’s Dog than any food I was eating. Amazing 🐶 He was so healthy and even puppy like eating their food. When he passed on about a month ago from an aggressive type of lung cancer, the woman I spoke with on the phone to cancel my future orders was so compassionate and wonderful. They refunded the amount I paid for my whole last 42 day order and they sent a beautiful card and plant in honor of my Auggie 🫶 I can’t recommend Farmer’s dog enough. Best food and most wonderful customer care. Thank you🙏

Definitely better for dogs than the dry kibble we used to give my childhood dog (when we didn't know better) but the packages are too big for my friend's small dog but not enough for the larger breed dogs so make sure you are serving your dog the right portion size. It's the next best thing to cooking daily for your dog yourself.  I didn't give it five stars because it's pricey for the size. 