Product Review: Carefresh Timothy Hay

We have a great idea for a new invention. It's a giant scale for your hay that calculates how much we eat based on the change in weight per day, and then uses that to estimate how many days worth of hay we have remaining. Once we're down to a certain amount, it will automatically send an order for hay to Small Pet Select, allowing us to get more hay before we run out. Will someone please invent this? The humans need it. They're constantly forgetting to reorder on time, or underestimating how much we eat, causing them to buy hay from the store as a stopgap measure.

Anyway, the point is, we're reviewing Carefresh Timothy Hay today.

Hmm... The hay looked a little fresher in the picture on the Carefresh website.

Let's try it.

The bag of hay we got was not entirely that nice shade of fresh green like on the Carefresh website, but more of a pale yellowish-green for much of the stalks in the bag. Just as we feared from the color, a lot of the stalks were coarse and dry, and we weren't too enthusiastic about eating them. However, as long-time readers of this blog know, our favorite part of the hay is the seed heads, and there a good number of big seed heads in this hay. Yum!

So we'll give Carefresh Timothy Hay 3.5/5 stars, with the caveat that a fresher bag would definitely have gotten a higher rating, and it might have been the pet store's fault for selling an older bag.