I am currently in Afghanistan but my mother is taking care of my dogs. My mother is retired so I do not want her to have to spend a lot of money on the dogs so I take care of their expenses.
I am also making a bit more money than I used to so I can stop giving them the processed nasty food (that is probably contributing to my dog's alergies and itching). So I decided to get them some good healthy organic dog food with no preservatives. After checking out different companies I decided to try
http://www.orijen.ca/ brand dog food. Their site has a list of online vendors.
I went to their online vendors and found the one with the best price and free shipping.
I found the dog food I wanted. Copied the product page link. Pasted the link into the easy form at
http://www.bitspend.net and put my mother's address in there and placed my order.
A few hours later bitspend got back with me and gave me an invoice with a bitcoin payment link. I clicked on the link and paid with my bitcoin client.
Quite simple, order placed and my dogs get some quality dog food. I did not need to search for bitcoin merchants, I could go with the best product I could find on the Internet.
No more need to spend dollars on the Internet anymore.
Orijen is one of the better dry foods, but the best way to get rid of the allergies and itching is give them fresh raw meat, you can buy those premade and frozen or do it yourself. I always go for the frozen ones (smuldier) and they do great on it and they really love it. From time to time they also get raw fish and eggs as an extra. Giving dogs dry food how good the quality may seems is like if you would ate every day mac donalds for the rest of your life, day in day out without anything else, you'll survive but it's not healthy. A dog needs fresh raw meat and not grain with a percentage of dried meat waist.
But to get more on topic on the bitcoin part
I like the idea that I can pay everywhere with bitcoin, but preferred if I didn't need a middle man but I think these services are great to deal with the "only few people use them as currency because nobody accepts them and nobody accepts them because only few use them as a currency" problem.