Archived Blog
This was our older, food-led blog. We've stopped adding to it — PawPicks writing is now Milo-led and lives under PawPicks Posts. These posts stay online at their original addresses because people have linked to them and the advice in them is still sound.
Some links are Amazon affiliate links (see our affiliate disclosure) — that never changes which foods we pick.
Milo's Post-Dental-Surgery Care Kit: The Three Products We Use
After Milo's dental surgery we tried three things at home — Soopa dental sticks, ProDen PlaqueOff and finger toothbrushes. Honest ratings for all three, including the one we'd genuinely buy again and the one it's still too early to judge.
Read Post →The £30 to £90 Dog Food Shelf: What Your Money Actually Buys
We line up five real foods from £30 a bag to £89 a bag and break down what changes at each step — meat content, ingredient naming, additives — and where the extra money stops mattering for most dogs.
Read Post →Switching Dog Food Without the Upset Stomach: Our 10-Day Plan
The exact ratio schedule we used to move Milo onto a new food with zero digestive drama, the two mistakes that cause most "my dog can't tolerate this food" verdicts, and three foods that make good landing spots.
Read Post →Looking for the hot-weather post? It lives at its original address — How to Keep Your Dog Cool in Hot Weather — and is now listed under PawPicks Posts.