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I love Barnes Supply! We buy most of our pet food there. A couple of years ago, we learned the hard way that pets aren't safe eating most of the supermarket brand foods. We lost our beautiful, sweet tortoiseshell cat to kidney failure, a casualty of that national rash of pet foods tainted with bad Chinese grain ingredients. Afterwards, I wanted to learn as much as possible about pet nutrition so I could feel confident I would never again feed our pets something harmful. I was stunned to learn that the vast majority of commercial cat and dog foods are made with ingredients like corn and wheat that are really bad for cats and dogs. After all, they are carnivores. That means they need meat. They just aren't built to digest plant proteins very well. Also, the most common allergies in cats and dogs are to corn, wheat, and soy, but we usually don't realize that our itchy, scratchy, stinky, hairball-y pets wouldn't be like that if we gave them better food. Most of the commercial foods are loaded up with cheap grain-based fillers and most of us never know better. Even a lot of the of the so-called ""premium"" brands are really not much better, when you read the ingredients. Now I'm careful to read labels and buy foods that don't contain things like wheat gluten or corn. The really annoying thing is that safe and healthy brands of pet food aren't sold at most supermarkets or even pet stores. Barnes Supply Co is a treasure because they do sell the good stuff, and in a wide variety, at decent prices. Barnes Supply has the best range of natural, organic, and ""specialty"" brands of any store I've seen - Innova, EVO, Wellness, Taste of the Wild, Solid Gold, Organix, and more. By the way, they also have a nice gardening and outdoor section, and sometimes they'll even have some locally made treats for humans up by the register.
Pros: Quality and variety of products, especially good pet foods.
Cons: Parking can be a bit difficult, but there's more around back.
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