Spring has sprung!

Hello Hoomans! It is has been a little while since I last wrote anything, my human has been busy recently but he has promised to sit down and write stuff for me so everyone can stay up-to-date with all my happenings, which I am sure we can all agree, are very important!

Spring has finally come to Kent, and in true English fashion it was very wet and windy, and then sunny and then, suddenly, it went back to being very wet and windy again! Generally my human is very good as gauging the weather, especially if he is taking me out but on occasion he has gotten it wrong and we have both ended up soaking wet!

Now that the fields are suitable for us to go walking in again (at the end of winter they all so muddy that it was had for the human with only two legs to walk). The fields are now full of yellow flowers, my human says they are oilseed rape, and it is so much fun to run down the shady burrows left by the tractors! The yellow flowers are growing up so much that it is becoming difficult for my human to walk us the ways we would normally go but I don't mind as it means we go new ways.

Last week we had to leave the flat as the estate agent had a viewing booked. So we went out to meet my other human at the pub, but it rained and I got all wet and shivery. When we got to pub it wasn't so bad, I got to eat lots of crisps and then my humans bought me wet-food to make up for me getting so wet.

With it being so hot my human has been bringing water out with us so I can drink. He has this weird water bottle but I refuse to drink from it, so he has to use this little folding bowl instead. Even when he pours the water into that, I will sometimes ignore it and try and climb into irrigation ditches or little streams for the refreshing water there instead.

The other day I got so hot outside because I was running around so much, that I made myself ill. My human has said that if I continue to do this, he will have to buy my a towel coat, I think it will make me look ridiculous but also don't want to be hot.

Until next time, Bark Bark Lick!

Barks and Bunnies: Monthly Treat Box Challenge

Edit (10.05.2015): Well this is awkward... It appears my human forgot one of the items in this box. I have made him add it to the review. I would like to thank Barks and Bunnies for offering to send the "missing" items. - Pixel



We got the Bark and Bunnies Love Them Happy Classic Box at the end of February, for the reasonable price of £16.99.


The box contained a number of interesting and fun items. Firstly it contained a Fat Cat Mini Gruntleys pig toy, which on its own typically retails at £7.99. This tough and fun toy has become a favourite of Pixel's and he loves the grunting sound it makes when he chews it. In the box there was also another toy, a pack of Kong Sports Balls which we are forever finding under our feet. We also received 60g box of Lily's Kitchen Breakfast Crunch and a 60g bag of natures:menu Treats with Lamb. I am sure that many of you know that Lily's Kitchen make fantastic, and high quality pet foods, and the natures:menu treats are deliciously meaty. To finish of the box, we also received
a bar of pure nuff stuff dogsbody soap, a fantastic dog soap that leaves Pixel's coat in an amazing condition and him smelling lovely. The whole box was topped off with a short hand-written note to Pixel that made the box feel extra-special.  Everything was sent to us in a forage box, a cardboard box that will filled with straw, so your dog has to search to find his presents. Once we had removed all the goodies from out box, we gave it to our bunnies who absolutely loved it.

Quantity

For £16.99 we received a total of five items. For the type of items that they were, it is about what you would expect for the money. They were all good brands that we would happily buy ourselves.

Quantity: 4/5

Quality

Every item in the box is of high quality. The Fat Cat Mini Gruntley toy is extremely well made and durable, the Lily's Kitchen and nature:menu treats are high quality products made from good ingredients, and while I do not have much experience with dog soaps, I cannot fault the pure nuff stuff dogsbody soap. For £16.99 I cannot complain of the quality of this box.

Quality: 4/5

Variety

This box was made up with five products, two treats, two toys and one bar of soap. A pretty diverse mix when it comes to what you can send out in a dog box. Of the treats, one of them is a pack of crunchy kibble treats, while the others were soft, chewy and very meaty.

Variety: 4/5

Value

The products we received retail roughly around the following prices:

• Fat Cat Mini Gruntleys toy: £7.99
• Lily's Kitchen Breakfast Crunch: £1.59
• natures:menus Treats with Lamb: £1.79
• pure nuff stuff dogsbody soap: £3.50
• Kong Sports Balls: £4.20

In total that would bring all the products to £19.07. However you look at it, that is pretty good value for money. The box contained useful and fun items, and everything in it we have used!

Value: 4/5

Satisfaction

Overall I think Pixel and I were very satisfied with this treat box. The items were interesting and of high quality. The fact that everything comes in a forage box is amazing, and the presence of a hand-written note does improve my satisfaction with the whole thing. 

Satisfaction: 4/5

If Pixel and I were not undertaking the Monthly Treat Box Challenge, we might have settled on Barks and Bunnies as out monthly source of treat box fun. I am certain that once we have finished the challenge, we will be ordering from them again.

Barks and Bunnies received 4 Barks out of 5!

You can find the box here!

The Monthly Treat Box Challenge Rankings

1. Barks and Bunnies Love Them Happy Classic Box (4 out of 5)
2. Woof Box (2.2 out of 5)

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