My amazing journey with BARF India!
It has taken me a good year and half to write this review!
One thing that's consistent throughout my liaison with BARF India is that the food has worked wonders for my Casper. Our home is Casper's (a lab) second home... He came to us super energetic, a live wire and as almost all labs, having weight and hip issues. There were certain days, especially during winters and monsoons, where he wouldnt be able to stand up and would whine incessantly due to the pain.
The vet had told us he would have this issue on and off on a lifelong basis, as he had an early onset of hip dysplasia.
We resigned to carrying Casper every 20-30 days to the vet for a pain injection.
Until we changed his diet..Till then we were feeding Casper premium brand kibble. We had experimented with a few premium joint nutrition focused kibble brands but didn't find any change.
We began our journey with BARF India in 2017 and embraced the raw food diet concept through them. We have tried their single protein chicken, single protein fish, single protein lamb, and settled with alternating between Raw Joint Support Special Green lipped Mussels and the rest, for alternate weeks.
During the initial few years the last mile delivery and turn around times from the date of order was a point of friction. We struggled with them and they struggled too. And the only thing going strong and consistent was the fact that the food slowly started working wonders!
Within a 6-8 month period we no longer had to witness Casper having issues with standing up anymore. Vet visits reduced to almost a bare minimum, i.e, a routine check up once a year to check if "all is fine".
We contemplated changing but BARF India's founder, Brian comes with years of experience in pet nutrition. He would, in the initial years attend to our calls personally in case of any other change or ad hoc health issue relating to skin or gut problem we faced.
Post COVID, in 2023-24, we faced a lot of logistic issues with delivery from them and we were pretty miffed. At the time, Brian told us they were struggling with establishing a robust last mile cold chain delivery by themselves, as India doesn't have a reliable and consistent pan India cold chain last mile delivery system. They asked us to hang on and just keep the faith.. and we did ..against a lot of flack and online reviews they were recieving.. won't deny we were that we were tempted to leave many times during that period..
But now it's 1.5 years and they have managed to keep our faith and grow it! They have established their own cold chain delivery system, which is commendable in a space where that's a huge challenge (and that takes time in the land of jugaad😄), and today their TAT's do not exceed more than 48-72 hours, from the day the order is placed, delivered in frozen condition.
I have referred many pet parent friends (dog & cat) and almost all have had some pet health issue and all have seen improvements after switching to BARF India.
They have evolved by taking feedback constructively. And working on how best to make challenges into positives.. their last mile deliveries, their customer service, and they also listened to India centric unique challenges.. They have introduced health issue specific diet plans, customisation for specific issues, and provided a solution to the aversion to handling raw food. They have listened and now have cooked food, air dried food, and supplementary toppers for vegetarian households!
Kudos to BARF India from where they were and to where they are currently, how they continue to keep evolving!
I strongly recommend them since I've kept the faith and lived to tell the tale😄
5 maggio 2026
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