Seafood Lovers Sampler Kit: Three Boxes
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Buying a gift for a dog usually means adding one more toy to a pile that already has too many in it. Treats get eaten. That is the entire argument for this one. For a dog that leans toward fish it runs to three sampler boxes rather than one. The Seafood Sampler, the Fish Trio, then the Exotic Collection Box for the dog that has already been through the obvious things. A bag of cheddar bites goes in for ordinary days. Other treat kits sit on the bundle guides hub.
Why three boxes and not one big bag
A single large bag of one thing is a fine present for a dog and a dull one for the person opening it. Three boxes means ten different bags, each with one ingredient on the label, and the person receiving it gets to find out something about their own dog rather than just restocking. It is also the difference between a gift that lasts two weeks and one that lasts a season. Our piece on why training with treats works is worth passing on with the box if the person opening it is new to using food as a reward.
The Seafood Sampler is the easy opener
The Seafood Sampler holds freeze-dried pink salmon, freeze-dried shrimp and freeze-dried blue-lipped mussels, one ingredient in every bag, freeze-dried in small batches in Pennsylvania. All three are suitable for dogs and cats, which matters if the household you are gifting into has both. Salmon is the one almost every dog takes straight away, so this is the box to open first if you want an early win in front of whoever gave it.
The Fish Trio goes further in the same direction
The Fish Trio is whole sardines at 3 ounces, anchovies and sardine heads, again single ingredient in each bag, also suitable for dogs and cats. This is a noticeably stronger smelling box than the first one. Sardine heads are the crunchiest of the three and the one cats tend to claim first, which is worth knowing before you hand the box to a house that has both.
The Exotic box is the one that gets talked about
The Exotic Collection Box is freeze-dried frog legs, baby octopus, scallops and eighteen whole quail eggs, single ingredient in every bag, freeze-dried in Pennsylvania. Not every dog will take all four, and that is fine. The box earns its place in a gift because it is genuinely four proteins most dogs have never met, rather than four flavors of the same thing.
Cheddar for ordinary Tuesdays
Cheddar cheese bites come in one 8 ounce bag, one ingredient, crude protein listed at 34 percent minimum and crude fat at 50 percent minimum. The reason a plain bag belongs in a gift full of exotic ones is simple: nobody wants to hand a frog leg over for sitting nicely at the door. This is the bag that gets used daily while the sampler boxes get rationed. Everything here sits in our freeze-dried treats range.
To match a box to a dog you do not know well, our explore page filters the range by protein, life stage and format.
The part of this kit to skip
The waste bags. They are strawberry scented, leak-proof and fit standard dispensers on easy-tear rolls, and they are a genuinely useful thing to own. As part of a gift box they are a slightly odd note, so leave them out unless the person you are buying for would find that funny. We would rather say that than pretend every item in a kit is equally well judged.
There is also nothing here in the way of a toy or a bowl, deliberately. The whole premise is that the pile of objects is already big enough.
Giving it well
Open one box at a time rather than all three, and give a new protein a few days on its own before moving to the next. Watch for loose stool with anything unfamiliar, the same caution that applies to any new treat, and slow down if something does not agree. Count what gets handed out against the day's food, because a gift box makes it very easy to lose track. Put the cheddar bag somewhere it can be reached daily and the three boxes somewhere it cannot.
Supervise treat time, and keep the boxes out of reach between servings. A dog that finds the Exotic box unattended will not ration it.
What it replaces
Another squeaky thing. It also replaces the awkwardness of buying a dog gift when you do not know the dog well, because three sampler boxes cover a lot of preferences without you having to guess which one is right.
Questions we get
Will all of this suit a cat in the same house?
The Seafood Sampler and the Fish Trio are both listed as suitable for dogs and cats, so yes for those two. Check each bag rather than assuming across the whole gift.
How long does a gift like this last?
Rationed properly, a season. Handed out freely, about two weeks. The cheddar bag is what stops the sampler boxes disappearing in the first week, which is most of the reason it is in here.
Can I add a subscription instead of a third box?
You can, and for a gift that should keep arriving it is the better choice. Modified Monthly runs as a dog or a cat box with a new theme and assortment each month.
How it ships
Every item in this kit is ours, freeze-dried or packed in small batches in Malvern, Pennsylvania, so the whole thing travels on one label with one tracking number. No partner parcels, nothing arriving a week apart. If you are sending it as a gift, that single delivery is worth something on its own.
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The rest of the sampler cluster:
