Sundays For Dogs Review – They Answer the WSAVA Questions, but Not the Price One

Sundays makes an air-dried dog food, sold by subscription, founded by a practising veterinarian. It is one of the more transparent pet food companies we have looked at: it publishes its answers to the entire WSAVA questionnaire, the full ingredient list for all four recipes, and the calorie density of each one per gram and per cup. Then it publishes no price at all — not on the home page, not on the ingredients page, not at the start of the quiz — while running a banner offering 30% off.

What It Is and Who It Is For

An air-dried dog food, which sits between kibble and fresh food. Ingredients are cooked slowly at low temperature and most of the water is removed, so the result is shelf-stable and scoopable like kibble but closer to jerky in texture. No fridge, no freezer, no thawing. It comes as a subscription in four recipes: beef, chicken, whitefish and turkey.

The company is Sundays for Dogs, Inc., co-founded by Dr. Tory Waxman, VMD — a practising small-animal veterinarian, Cornell undergraduate, University of Pennsylvania vet school, internship at the Animal Medical Center in New York — who is Chief Veterinary Officer, and her husband Michael Waxman.

The buyer is someone who thinks kibble is too processed, finds fresh-food subscriptions too expensive or too much hassle to store, and wants the middle option. That is a real gap and this is a credible product for it.

Why a Dog Food Review Is on a Weight Loss Site

Because of the walk, mostly. For a lot of people the single most reliable exercise habit they have ever kept is the one the dog enforces — twice a day, in all weather, whether or not you feel like it. That is worth more than most of the products we review here, and it is free.

There is a second connection, less comfortable. The same measuring problem applies at both ends of the lead. Overfeeding a dog is easy, invisible for months, and done almost entirely with a scoop and an estimate. If you have learned anything about portion sizes from your own experience, apply it here — and that is exactly why the calorie section below matters more than it looks.

The One Number They Do Not Publish

We went looking for a price and could not find one. Checked on 8 August 2026:

To reach a price you complete a four-step flow the site labels Me, My Dog, My Plan, Checkout — so your contact details and your dog’s details go in before the number comes out. Their own copy says it takes about three minutes per dog.

The practical workaround: run the quiz for your actual dog, note the price, and then compare it per 1,000 kcal against whatever you feed now. Because they publish calorie density, that comparison is at least possible once you have the number — which is more than many rivals allow.

They Answered the WSAVA Questionnaire in Public

This is the strongest thing about the company and it deserves to be spelled out.

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association publishes a set of questions vets recommend asking a pet food manufacturer. Most boutique brands never engage with it, because the honest answers are awkward. Sundays has a page that runs through the whole list with its answers written by Dr. Waxman. Here is what they say, with our reading of each:

Two of those answers are admissions against interest — part-time rather than full-time, and no published research. Publishing them anyway, on your own website, under a named veterinarian, is the behaviour of a company that expects to be checked. It moved our rating more than anything else on the site.

The AAFCO Statement Contradicts Itself

Which makes the following harder to explain, because it is on the same page, a few paragraphs apart.

Those are different claims. Maintenance means adult dogs. All life stages includes growth, and growth of large-breed puppies is a stricter profile again because of the calcium and phosphorus limits that protect developing joints. A reader with a labrador puppy gets the opposite answer depending on which line they happen to read, and it is the adequacy statement printed on the bag that carries legal weight.

The most likely explanation is a page that was written in 2019 and updated in one place and not the other. It is still the thing to clear up before you feed this to a puppy: ask them to send you a photograph of the current adequacy statement on the bag you would actually receive. That is a one-email question and they answer email, text and phone.

Calories Per Cup, and Why That Matters Here

They publish caloric density, which many brands bury. From their WSAVA answers:

What Is Actually in It

Full ingredient lists are published for all four recipes, in order, which is exactly what a buyer should be able to see before entering an email address. The chicken recipe, as an example:

A genuinely notable feature: there is no added vitamin and mineral premix in any of the four lists. The preservative is mixed tocopherols, a natural vitamin E form, and the mineral support appears to come from whole ingredients — ground bone for calcium and phosphorus, liver for vitamin A and B vitamins, kelp for iodine, selenium yeast in three of the recipes, fish oil for omega-3s. The company markets this as 0% synthetics.

Meeting AAFCO nutrient minimums across roughly three dozen nutrients from whole foods alone is difficult, which is why almost everyone uses a premix. If Sundays is genuinely doing it without one and confirming it by finished-product analysis, that is impressive. It also raises the stakes on that analysis, which is the specific reason to take them up on their offer to send you the complete nutrient analysis before you commit.

The Grain Decision They Explain

Sundays is grain-inclusive — millet and oats in the chicken recipe, quinoa in the beef, millet in the fish and turkey. In a market where grain-free was the premium fashion for a decade, that is a deliberate choice, and they published an article by Dr. Waxman in July 2019 explaining it.

The reasoning they give is the FDA investigation opened in July 2018 into a potential link between grain-free dog foods and dilated cardiomyopathy, a form of heart failure. We are not going to adjudicate that investigation here — it is a live and contested scientific question. What we can say is that a company choosing the less fashionable, less premium-sounding option and then publishing a signed veterinary explanation of why is behaving the way you would want a food company to behave.

Auto-Renewal, Arbitration and the 30-Day Clock

The terms are where the transparency thins out. Three things to know before you sign up.

One: it auto-renews and cancelling does not refund the current period. Subscriptions extend automatically for successive periods of the same length at the then-current non-promotional rate unless you opt out. You can cancel through account settings, by text, or by email — but the terms state that paid subscriptions cannot be terminated before the end of the current term and that you will not be eligible for a prorated refund of any portion of the fee paid for it. Note also the phrase then-current non-promotional rate: your 30%-off first box is not your ongoing price.

Two: there is a binding arbitration clause with a class action waiver — JAMS rules, jury trial waived, Federal Arbitration Act and Ohio law, venue in New Castle County.

A small thing worth noting if you plan to post that letter: their WSAVA page gives the company address as 675 Alpha Park Drive, Cleveland, OH 44143 and the terms give 675 Alpha Drive, Suite G, Cleveland, Ohio 44143. Use the address in the terms, since that is the one the clause specifies, and consider sending it with tracking.

One more oddity. The site footer has a link labelled Returns. It redirects to the home page. There is a 14-Day Money Back Guarantee advertised prominently on that home page, but no dedicated page setting out what it covers, how you claim it, or whether you return the food. Ask before you rely on it.

Two BBB Records, F and A Minus

The Better Business Bureau carries two listings for this company, at two addresses, with two very different grades.

Neither is BBB accredited. Duplicate records are common and we cannot tell you which one the company regards as its own — though the Ohio address is the one printed in its terms of service, and the New York one has the suite-number format of a mail-forwarding address.

The more useful detail is what the reviews on the Ohio record are about: unauthorised recurring charges after an initial purchase, and receipt of unrequested orders with continued billing. Read that next to the auto-renewal terms above and it is the same story from two directions. It is not evidence of bad faith — it is what subscription billing produces when customers do not read the renewal terms — but it is the specific failure mode to guard against here. Diary your renewal date.

What We Could and Could Not Check on Recalls

We searched the openFDA food enforcement database for any recall naming Sundays and found nothing. Before treating that as reassurance, we ran a control — and the control is the reason we are not treating it as reassurance.

We also checked the FDA’s Animal & Veterinary recalls and withdrawals page and found no mention of the company. Taken together the honest summary is no recall found, not a clean bill of health. If pet food safety history matters to you, check the FDA animal and veterinary recall listing directly before you buy anything, from anyone.

How It Compares

We have deliberately not quoted competitor prices we did not verify today, and we cannot compare Sundays on price at all, for the reason given above. On process transparency, though, Sundays beats most of the boutique category outright — and still sits behind the large manufacturers on the one measure WSAVA weights most heavily, which is feeding trials and published research.

Who Should Try It, and Who Should Not

Good fit:

• You want something less processed than kibble without freezer space or thawing
• You care about manufacturing transparency and will actually read the WSAVA answers
• You want a grain-inclusive food and appreciate that they explain why
• You have an adult dog, which is what the AAFCO statement on the label covers
• You will weigh portions rather than scooping, given 620 to 650 kcal per cup
• You are willing to run the quiz to see a price and walk away if it is too high

Look elsewhere if:

• You will not hand over your details to find out what something costs
• You have a large-breed puppy. Get the current adequacy statement in writing first, because their own page says two different things
• Your dog has a diagnosed condition needing a therapeutic diet. That is a veterinary prescription, not a subscription
• You want a brand with published feeding trials and peer-reviewed research — they say plainly that they have none yet
• You forget to cancel things. Auto-renewal here has no prorated refund, and the complaint themes reflect that
• Price per calorie is your main criterion. Kibble will win and it is not close

Pros and Cons

Limitations of This Review

Everything here was checked on 8 August 2026 against sundaysfordogs.com — the home, about, ingredients, WSAVA, grain-free and DCM, terms, FAQ, reviews and quiz pages — together with the Better Business Bureau, the openFDA food enforcement database and the FDA Animal & Veterinary recalls page.

We did not buy or feed the food, so we cannot speak to palatability, stool quality, how dogs actually do on it, or whether the delivered bag matches the published ingredient list. Every manufacturing, testing and nutritionist claim in this review is the company’s own statement on its own website; we have attributed them rather than verified them independently, because that verification would require the nutrient analyses they offer to send and a facility we cannot inspect. The 2,491 reviews on their site are first-party, with no third-party review platform detected, and we could not verify a Trustpilot score.

Nothing here is veterinary advice. Diet is a clinical question for any dog with a medical condition, and a body condition score from a vet who has hands on your dog beats any feeding chart. If you are switching foods, transition gradually and ask your vet first.

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Verdict

On the things that are hard to fake, Sundays does well. It answers the WSAVA questionnaire in public and gives two answers that make it look worse. It publishes complete ingredient lists and calorie densities. It says its AAFCO compliance is verified by analysis of the finished product, not just on paper. It makes its food in one facility and tests every batch for Salmonella and E. coli. It chose grain-inclusive when grain-free was selling better, and published a veterinary explanation of why. That is a company that expects scrutiny.

Against that: no price anywhere, an AAFCO statement that contradicts itself on the same page, an auto-renewing subscription with no prorated refund, a mail-only arbitration opt-out on a 30-day clock, a Returns link that goes to the home page, and a BBB record at one address rated F for 46 complaints. None of those is disqualifying. All of them put the work on you.

So if you try it: run the quiz to get the number, then compare it per 1,000 calories against what you feed now. Ask for the current adequacy statement if you have a puppy, and for the complete nutrient analysis they offer. Diary the renewal date. Post the arbitration opt-out in the first month. Weigh the food rather than scooping it. And remember that the walk is doing more for both of you than any of this.