The Science Diet for dogs with food sensitivity or allergies isn’t bad. Kinda bland.

I once tasted a Pupperoni stick because it truly smelled fantastic, do NOT do this

Is pet food not perishable or something ? Why not learn traditional long term preservation techniques instead ?

If you’re resorting to pet food, you probably won’t have a large variety of options. Just eat whatever you can get your hands on and hope your stomach can handle it.

I’ve been feeding my dogs many different kinds of pellets and canned foods over the years. I always wash my hands after feeding ASAP, because the smell has a tendency to linger. It’s not vomit-inducing, but it’s still pretty far from pleasant.

I can’t remember the brand, but the packaging looked like human food except for a very small piece of text in the corner that mentions its dog food.

It tasted like it just needed a little bit of salt or maybe ketchup, but was otherwise pretty good.

I’ve also knowingly had wet and dry dog food since then, just because i already took the plunge accidentally so how bad could it be?

Again, I can’t remember the brands, but dry dog food is alright if you’ve literally nothing else. I’m sure some seasoning would help. I would recommend wet dog food though only because it’s easier to season. Tastes mostly how it smells, just blander.

Not dog food, but cat food.

We had 2 kinds of dry cat food, one the cats would eat, one the cats would not eat. We didn’t know what the difference was so I went “Fine!”

Neither tasted particularly good to me, but the one they liked had a crunchy texture and the one they didn’t was squishy, like it was stale Corn Pops cereal.

Between the two? I suggest the crunchy kind.

I plan to only eat my neighbors leftist asses.

(Consensually.)

I used to work at an animal shelter and as a result have dished up the vast majority of commercially available wet cat foods at some point (we’d get lots of stuff donated to us). At least what’s available where I live. Not gonna lie there have been a few fish ones where they’ve honestly smelled just like a decent fish chowder and I’ve thought ‘you know, in an apocalypse…’. Some are just chunks of mackerel or sardines in sauce and I eat sardines in sauce all the time lol. You’d have to eat a lot of them to get enough calories though. Kitten food is probably the most calorically dense but you won’t get a lot of flavor or texture options, mainly mystery meat pâté.

Probably better off just foraging and hoping to not get poisoned if that happens

Since dogs are scavengers and can eat literal shit I’d stay away from dog food, honestly, who knows with what ingredients they pad it, might be indigestible for humans. Cat food, on the other hand, is made to please carnivores, and cats are the pickiest of animals so I believe we should trust the cat. My cat liked Pro Plan kibble and Whiskas meat packets. Friskies kibble is also pretty good, at least street cats that I feed love it. Cat food is more expensive than human food though, so I’d just buy regular canned meats and fish (tuna in particular is dirt cheap and delicious both heated and cold, especially with oil).

My dog and cat love a good Bachelor’s Handbag every few days. I’d happily have those pretty regularly, although they don’t seem to keep you full for long.

Dog food is safe to eat in America at least. They have to keep it that way because kids are stupid and might eat it.

As an example, my son ate cat food one time when he was two.

Wet or dry OP?

I’ve never tried any, I’m just curious of the parameters of the question.

That shit they keep in a refrigerator. It’s literally just a shepherd’s pie/stew marketed as dog food. It smelled better than what I had made for myself one night so I took a bite. If I had no shame, I would have ate that and gave the dogs what I made cuz it was actually better.

My nephew apparently loves kibbles. Got to ask my brother the brand, gonna let you lnow.