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5 Best Dog Food Subscriptions in Australia in 2024 – Reviews & Top Picks

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By Chelsea Mortensen

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Dog food subscriptions have been booming, and it’s not hard to see why. Your dog probably needs the same type of food every few weeks, so why not just make it automatic? Subscriptions also give additional options, including fresh food diets that aren’t feasible to keep on store shelves. But with so many services available, you might need help parsing the reviews to find what would work for you.

Here are five of our favorite dog food subscriptions available in Australia right now.

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A Quick Comparison of Our Favorites in 2024

Rating Image Product Details
Best Overall
Winner
Scratch Scratch
  • Freshly produced dry food
  • Easy to compare benefits
  • Grain-free and grain-inclusive options
  • Best Value
    Second place
    Raw and Fresh Raw and Fresh
  • Low cost
  • Bulk and smaller meal options
  • Try before subscribing
  • Premium Choice
    Third place
    Complete Pet Complete Pet
  • High-quality, small-farm food
  • Detailed nutrition information
  • Lots of fresh and freeze-dried options available
  • Best for Puppies
    Lyka Lyka
  • Five protein options
  • Multiple grain-free and grain-inclusive recipes
  • Portioned for your dog—including growing puppies
  • Petzyo Petzyo
  • Raw and dry options
  • Three protein options per food type
  • Lots of delivery coverage
  • The 5 Best Dog Food Subscriptions in Australia

    1. Scratch Dog Food Subscription — Best Overall

    Scratch Turkey Recipe

     

    Food Type: Dry
    Delivers To: NSW, SA, TAS, VIC, WA, QLD (Parts)

    If you want a no-hassle dog food subscription that meets your pet’s needs, Scratch is a perfect choice. We found it to be the best overall dog food subscription in Australia. Although dry kibble isn’t as glamorous as fresh food, Scratch stands out from the supermarket food bags because it is made with premium ingredients and with a short turnaround so that your food isn’t sitting in a warehouse for months. It has three different recipes—a grain-free mixed protein, a grain-free kangaroo, and a grain-inclusive lamb—with easy-to-parse comparisons that help you figure out what’s best for your dog’s age and diet. We should note that recent research suggest that dogs without grain sensitivities are healthier on a grain-inclusive diet. Although the options are a little limited, one of these recipes will fit most dogs’ needs.

    Subscription is easy with Scratch. Delivering to all of Australia except the Northern Territory and a few remote parts of Queensland, you can pick any delivery frequency—so if your dog goes through a bag in exactly 37 days, that’s fine. You can also buy without a subscription, although you’ll miss out on some perks. This food comes in 8-kilogram or 16-kilogram bags, so most owners won’t need deliveries too often.

    Pros
    • Freshly produced dry food
    • Easy to compare benefits
    • Grain-free and grain-inclusive options
    • Lots of delivery options
    Cons
    • Limited recipes

    2. Raw & Fresh Dog Food Subscription — Best Value

    Raw&Fresh Beef & Chicken Complete Meal

    Food Type: Raw Grain-Free
    Delivers To: NSW, ACT, QLD, and VIC

    If you’ve got a large dog or you just want to save a little extra money, Raw and Fresh gives you the most bang for your buck. This high-value subscription service gives you raw food at a low price. It has three protein options: beef, kangaroo, and chicken. Although that’s a little lower than some other subscription services, it still gives you a few choices to consider when picking out food for your dog. This meal option also gives you plenty of customization options when it comes to sizing. Meal packs range from 125 grams to 2.5 kilograms, so you can choose to buy each day’s food in its own package or buy a bigger bulk pack if you want to parcel it out yourself and save a little money on the way.

    You can also choose subscription length at your convenience—you can pick how many weeks go between deliveries, with options anywhere from 1 to 6 weeks. Our only quibble with Raw and Fresh is that all its food is grain-free. Although some dogs need a grain-free diet, new research is showing that foods with whole grains are best for dogs.

    Pros
    • Low cost
    • Bulk and smaller meal options
    • Try before subscribing
    Cons
    • Grain-free
    • Limited meal options

    3. Complete Pet Dog Food Delivery Service — Premium Choice

    Complete Pet Meal Beef Roll

    Food Type: Raw, Freeze-dried
    Delivers To: QLD (Parts), NSW (Parts)

    Complete Pet takes a stand against large-scale farming with their carefully sourced, premium-ingredient fresh food and passes the benefits on to your dog. With only the finest proteins, grains, and vegetables selected for their recipes, many reviewers saw an immediate difference in their dog’s health and appetite.

    They offer six different meat options for their raw foods—beef, chicken, camel, goat, kangaroo, and venison—making it ideal for owners who want a lot of variety or dogs with allergies to the most common protein sources. Their freeze-dried foods include beef, chicken, kangaroo, and goat. These versions have the same recipe as the original but are shelf-stable until rehydrated. Complete Pet also offers various sizes of packaging, and you can buy without a subscription so you can see what’s best for you.

    Although we love Complete Pet’s options, they are a little less user-friendly, with a somewhat confusing website and no ability to set up subscriptions online. This means that you have to phone them if you want to receive recurring shipments.

    Pros
    • High-quality, small-farm food
    • Detailed nutrition information
    • Lots of fresh and freeze-dried options available
    • Try before subscribing
    Cons
    • More expensive option
    • Less friendly website
    • Can’t set up subscriptions online

    4. Lyka Dog Food Subscription — Best for Puppies

    Lyka Beef Recipe

    Food Type: Fresh
    Delivers To: Varies by postcode

    If you want a hassle-free subscription experience, and especially if you’ve got a growing puppy, Lyka is the choice for you. They do all the work of calculating meal sizes and portions, including upping the serving size as time goes on if your dog is still growing. Unlike most subscription services, Lyka is subscription only. That can make it a little more complicated to sign up, but it means that you’ve got a full support team ready to help with making subscribing as easy as possible.

    Lyka has five different options: beef, chicken, turkey, lamb, and kangaroo. So you have plenty of choices if you like variety or several different options if your dog is picky. Only some of these options include whole grains, so unless your dog has special dietary needs, we suggest keeping at least one grain-inclusive meal in the rotation. The only big drawback to Lyka is that it doesn’t make price comparison easy—you have to fill out a whole survey to estimate how much your dog’s food will cost. It’s also a little pricier, although you can order a half subscription and supplement with dry food if wanted.

    Pros
    • Five protein options
    • Multiple grain-free and grain-inclusive recipes
    • Portioned for your dog—including growing puppies
    Cons
    • Hard to calculate pricing
    • A bit expensive
    • Subscription only

    5. Petzyo Dog Food

    Petzyo Beef

    Food Type: Raw, Dry
    Delivers To: NSW, SA, TAS, VIC, WA, QLD

    Petzyo is a great option if you want a mixed diet for your dog. It offers both fresh, raw food options and dry foods, so you can choose what balance you want. There are also quite a few protein options available. In dry food, they have Chicken & Turkey, Salmon & Oceanfish, and Kangaroo, while their fresh recipes include Chicken, Beef, and Kangaroo. They also are ideal if you live in a more rural area—they deliver nationwide except Northern Territory, so if other raw food subscriptions don’t deliver to your area they might. Their health information section is very comprehensive, with detailed nutrition breakdown and ingredient lists that are easy to parse.

    Although we love a lot about Petzyo, there are some drawbacks. Their dry food is all grain-free, so it isn’t ideal for a complete diet. Many recipes also have peas and lentils, which more recent research has suggested may be linked to a rise in heart disease in dogs. Their raw food is also more expensive than many others on this list. Overall, it’s a great option if you plan to do a mix of dry and fresh foods, but if you only want one type of food,  another company choice might be better.

    Pros
    • Raw and dry options
    • Three protein options per food type
    • Lots of delivery coverage
    • Lots of health info available
    Cons
    • Dry food is grain-free
    • Raw food is on the expensive side
    • Many recipes have peas and lentils

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    Buyer’s Guide

    Some dog owners may be unsure which type of food to buy for their canine: fresh or dry. Both types of foods have their advantages, but you want to select the best one for your pooch.

    Fresh or Dry—What’s Right for You?

    Why to Consider a Fresh Diet

    There are lots of great reasons to think about a fresh diet. Unlike dry or canned foods, which can vary widely in quality, most fresh diets are based on nutritionally sound principles and have high-quality meat and vegetable products going in them. Since the food is less processed, you can be sure that real meat and veggies are going into your dog’s food. Many fresh foods are made with premium ingredients that you won’t see in most dry foods.

    Another reason to consider fresh food is for hydration. Before kibble, dogs got most of their hydration from eating fresh food, not from drinking out of a water bowl. That means that many dogs don’t drink enough water on their own to stay hydrated. Fresh food brings that back into balance, giving your dog lots of moisture without them needing to sip extra.

    Reasons to Stick with Dry

    With all of that, there are still good reasons to consider dry food. Convenience is one of the biggest factors. Fresh food usually requires freezer space to store and planning to defrost regularly. Some fresh food is easier to portion than others, but all of them require some work. They’re also very dependent on delivery services—a disruption to the supply chain could mean an emergency for your dog. Finally, there’s cost to consider. High-quality dry foods are generally cheaper than fresh foods, so if you’re on a tight budget, your dollar stretches more. If your dog drinks plenty of water, there is not much measurable difference between a raw and dry diet. Although there’s lots of anecdotal stories about the power of fresh food, there haven’t been studies showing a significant difference between fresh and dry foods of similar qualities.

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    Conclusion

    With so many great subscription choices, it can be tough to pick just one. But we found Scratch to be the best overall service because of its ease of use, great nutrition, and good price. Raw and Fresh food is the best value raw food option, while Complete Pet is a perfect premium choice. Whatever you choose, we hope these reviews helped you figure out what is best for you and your dog.


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