Food for Thought: 28 Fascinating Vintage Dog Food Ads

Here’s some fascinating food for thought! These 28 vintage dog food ads prove that as much as things change, they also stay very much the same.

Take a walk down memory lane with these 28 vintage dog ads! Some brands you’ll recognize as popular foods still on shelves today. Others will ring no bells at all – and some will have you scratching your head – Kellogg’s and French’s made dog food?

Make sure you read the ad copy, too – how different were the dog foods of yesteryear? From the ingredients (horse meat!?) to manufacturers boasting about the nutritional benefits of by-products, it wasn’t only the food that was different, different things apparently mattered to dog owners, too.

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