I have to tell you this story before I forget it. Gibbs, the little service dog man, has had his second bath in his lifetime. The first was when he first came home as a stinky baby, the second was because of this. I gave him some chew sticks from PetCo to ease his teething needs. He got it on him and some in him and good grief, did that boy stink. I thought it would wear off but even his mouth smelled awful. I brushed his teeth for the first time to get rid of the PU.
When we left for Oklahoma to take Great Aunt Bea and Pistol Pete back home I was hurrying to get ahead of the bad weather that was to hit Nebraska and northern Kansas and I left the SitStay Bully Sticks and SitStay Big Chompers sitting on the kitchen counter. Remember that Gibbs is teething, his adult teeth are pushing out his baby teeth big time, he needs his SitStay chews.
Chew on me, chew on my coat, chew on his tail, chew on my shoe, he wasn’t hurting anything but he had to chew. I did what all good mothers do, I tried to substitute. I stopped at the nearest pet store which happened to be PetCo. Yes, I know, please don’t give me a hard time about that, the baby has to chew and I thought, “How bad can it be for just this one time?” Oh, I wish I hadn’t gone there!
Anyway, in Gibbs and I went. Mom, Aunt Bea and Pete stayed outside. Gibbs kept rubbing his poor little gums on me, “Get me something to chew!” And I did. I chose what I thought would be the least offensive chew stick, a Red Barn Bully Stick. I sniffed it. It had an odor but wasn’t too bad. I bought two, one for Gibbs and one for Pete.
Ten minutes later in the car, out the window they went. OMG! Talk about stink! The ladies and I were gagging. The dogs were chewing on them but both would stop and look at us as if to say, “Hey. These aren’t my SitStay Bully Sticks. What’s this stuff?” Even they didn’t like the stench. Gibbs shook his head a few times. I did, too. PU! Oh, geez, PU!
As I’m gagging and taking the sticks away, my Aunt Bea says in her smoothest Oklahoma drawl, “Honey, I am so glad you stick to your guns and only carry the good stuff at your store. I don’t think I can stand those Red Barns things again.” She leaned over to kiss Pete, changed her mind and said to him, “Isn’t that right, Pete.”
We rolled the windows back up after about 20 minutes, just about the time we were turning into icicles. Never again. I’ll stick with my own tried and true chews, thanks. SitStay rules. And I’ll never walk away without them again, Gibbs. Sorry little buddy. – Darcie
Darcie,
Never again! I had the same problem. Riley loooves his bullys, and I was out at the house. Rather than go out of my way, I figured “what the heck,” and went to the more convenient PetCo and grabbed two to hold us over.
Awful, awful, stinky stink! Thumbs up to you for carrying better products!
Lindsey
Hi, Darcie, I did the same thing…I ran out of the SitStay ‘Top Crest” bones for my boys and stopped in at Petco …they had a nice display of bones…”roasted” and about a foot long. I thought they would be OK and each boy got one
Christmas morning. Before I gave my second boy his, the first one had crunched, cracked and splintered his!! Oh, my! Not good!! I took all away quickly- had a handful of splintered bones in my hand. Boy I will *never* buy any bones again from anywhere than Sitstay! They are safe, and my boys love them! Thank you Darcie for having good safe products for our loved ones…at least the furry ones!!