How do you store your dog food?

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    How do you store your dog food?

    Hey dog lovers . . .

     

    I'm new to the site, but I knew that this was the place to go to get good opinions on dog food storage.  I'm on a team that is developing a new product concepts for dog food storage and we want your opinion.  So please take the time to fill out this quick 5 minute survey.  Thanks!

     

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    Thanks!

    ~Kelly~ 

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    I'll answer your questions here, but I'll not do a survey. I store the  thirty pound bag of kibble in it's bag,, and then inside a human grade plastic food bin.  The bag only lasts seven or eight days, so long term storage isn't an issue for me.  Their home cooked goes in a large, human grade plastic container, in the fridge.
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    Hey dog lovers!

    Here is another dog food storage survey.  This one is about your preferences for dog food storage options and prices.  My team has narrowed down a concept that we are looking to bring to market but we still need your opinion.  It's a short 10 minute survey, so if you have time please take this survey.  Your opinion counts!  Thanks!

     

     http://gsbsawtooth.chicagogsb.edu/art.middlebrooks/purple/WebUpload/purplogn.htm

     

    ~Kelly~

    • Gold Top Dog

    In the garage in a big bin for Brownie and Cuddles and in the kitchen in a little bin for Possum and Baxter.

    • Gold Top Dog

    I'll answer your survey right here. I store my dog food in the basement. Each dog eats something different so they each have their own storage bin. I use cheap storage bins and won't spend more than $10 on a container.

    • Gold Top Dog

    I have one of those big storage containers on casters with a snap lid.  It holds a 33 lb. bag of dog food quite nicely and I keep it in the pantry so I really don't care much about being able to change the design. I think metal would be heavy and cumbersome for that much weight, and ceramic or glass would be just as bad except that there would also be a chance of it breaking. I also think a screw top lid would be a PITA.  I just lift the lid on one side and fold it back.  It cost about $25 and was well worth it.

    Joyce

     

    • Gold Top Dog

    Freezer. Either in the original bag or when it is time to cut up the portions into a plastic bin. Then the 'thawed' portions go into the meat bin in the refrigerator.

     

    • Gold Top Dog

    I, too, will answer your question here.  I keep Caleb's food in the bag in a Stack N Store.

    • Gold Top Dog

    I store both the dog and cat food in their bags in a cupboard. Does using a plastic tub make it last longer or keep it more fresh?

    • Gold Top Dog

    I store 2- 40 lb bags of dry food outside in a metal trash container (always used for this purpose) next to it in another metal trash container is my wild bird food and sunflower seeds.  They all sit in a frame w/wheels so I  can move it if I need to.  I keep treats and snacks in the house in a food grade plastic container w/screw top lid and their fresh goes in the bin in the fridge.  I changed to the metal containers several years ago because the mice and the squirels could chew thru the heavy plastic containers I had outside. 

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    In the bag in a more or less airtight metal trash can.  I go through food so fast I don't worry too much about exposure to air.  I also use the metal because we used to live in a place where I had to store the food on the screened porch outside and raccoons could get to it.  Nine dogs and I had a raccoon problem, sheesh.  Not here though - the guard dogs have access to the house.  But I don't see any reason to change.

    I've got one of those stack and store containers and love it!  The spinny lid is the bomb.  I store duck food in it.

    The cat's food is only purchased 3 pounds at a time and is stored in a large plastic cereal container.

    And of course all my homemade stuff is stored in plastic bags in the freezer.  I freeze the liquidy stuff in silicone muffin forms, then when they are solid, I pop them out and store them all together in gallon freezer bags.  then I can remove 6 oz at a time, about half what I use in a day.
     

    • Gold Top Dog

    I store dog food in atuperware container in the pantry.

    • Gold Top Dog

    Five gallon bucket with a lid.  Smile
     

    • Gold Top Dog

     Kibble is stored in my double-lined 10lb Hyperbin.

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    In a 50lb Vittle Vault.