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Pet owner Fleur Bailey has created a new line of natural, homemade dog food supplements inspired by her Dalmation, “Maddie,” who lost her appetite undergoing chemotherapy for lymphoma.
The Maddie’s Mash line of dog food supplements includes recipes prepared from all-natural, human-grade ingredients locally grown and raised in New York, USA. Bailey says the recipes in the Maddie’s Mash line promote healthy skin, a better immune system, stronger bones and joints, and fewer chronic digestive problems. Recipes include Maddie’s Turkey, as well as gluten-free Maddie’s Beef and Maddie’s Chicken. The meals come frozen in a 32-ounce recycled plastic container.
Maddie’s Mash products are sold through Amazon.com and on the Maddie’s Mash website.
My Perfect Pet, a fresh, frozen and all-natural dog food company in California, USA, has launched a new online store at www.5thAvenueDog.com.
My Perfect Pet’s online store will give consumers across the lower 48 states access to the company's dog food via overnight delivery. The online retail store offers six different food blends: Knight’s, Boomer’s, Buckaroo, Hunter’s, Roxy’s and Snuggles. My Perfect Pet dog treats, Bobo’s Bites and Party Bites, will soon be available to purchase online as well.
“This makes My Perfect Pet available to anyone with an address, even in areas where we do not yet have distribution to retailers,” says president of My Perfect Pet, Karen Scoggins. “Now dog lovers across the continental US can give their dogs the best food, all with the convenience of having it delivered right to their doors.”
To buy products off the My Perfect Pet webpage, customers can select “Buy Online” on the left banner or “Purchase” at the top menu, which will redirect them to the 5th Avenue Dog online retailer. The online store offers a secured input for credit and debit cards.
Pets Plus USA, an online retailer of natural, holistic dog food, recently launched a new selection of Natural Holistic Dog Food in new flavors with added nutrition.
The new, Pets Plus Natural Holistic Dog Food uses premium petfood ingredients with no fillers or byproducts.
“PetsPlusUSA.com carries the largest selection of holistic, organic & natural petfood. At Pets Plus USA, they believe in providing the best quality food and supplies to pets. They're not only feeding their loved ones better, but ensuring a long happy, healthy life,” said a spokesperson for the company.
All-natural dog food, including foods that meet Association of American Feed
Control Officials' requirements to claim “human-grade,” make up 10 percent of
all sales in the US$18.9 billion petfood industry, according to Packaged
Facts.
To determine what this "human-grade" dog food really
tastes like to humans, Lucy Postins, founder of pet food company The Honest
Kitchen, says her employees sample every ingredient when formulating a new dog
food recipe. Yet, a Bloomberg Businessweek article that taste-tested the foods
reveals that not all "human-grade" pet foods are really made to be palatable to
both for humans and pets.
The article says that Weruva's Cirque de la Mer, which includes ingredients
like tuna, pumpkin, carrots and sweet potatoes, claims "Actual Food" and "Made
in a Human Food Facility" on the label, but the fine print cautions, "For Pets
only." The article says that the food does taste like tuna with fresh
vegetables, even to humans. The taste-tester was not as fond of Weruva's Jammin'
Salmon food, however, which was said to have "stringy" chicken and "store
bought" salmon, with vegetables like tomatoes, peas and sweet potatoes that were
hard to taste. Michael's Soul-Stew Chicken's label claims the food contains only
"USDA certified human-grade meats and farm fresh vegetables," but the taste test
for humans proved the food to lack seasoning, though it includes many healthy
ingredients like carrots, yams, potatos and rice, the article says.
Other foods taste-tested were Merrick's Little Italy and Burger Pie &
Sweety fries. The taste tester says both foods were edible but not very
platable, and the Little Italy food looked like "nearly square gelatinous
meatballs float in a gooey brown stock," while the Burger Pie & Sweety fries
recipe consisted of potato chunks in a brownish meat blend.
Another food tested was The Honest Kitchen's Embark food, a dehydrated food
that looks like "chopped broccoli in a recycled, biodegradable box," the
taste-tester said, with fruits and vegetables such as coconut and kelp. The
article says this one has hints of cage-free turkey with hints of rosemary and a
spinach-celery base. The taste tester's most preferred petfood was Nature's
Variety SweetSpots Sweet Potato & Molasses formula. The food, the tester
says, looks like "burnt-orange frozen yogurt" in a brown box, and has a light
hint of sweet potato mixed with molasses.
A new Austin, Texas, USA, petfood company, Nulo Inc., raised US$1.3 million this month through investors, although executives are offering few details about their plans, according to the Austin Business Journal.
Nulo CEO Michael Landa only revealed that it is a startup and officials are busy launching its product.
The company was founded in August 2009, and according to a job posted by Nulo, its products will include all-natural dog and cat foods.
The Humane Society of the United States is launching an all-natural and certified organic dog food called Humane Choice.
The HSUS said it developed the product to offer consumers a wholesome and nutritious dog food that does not contain animal-based proteins.
My Perfect Pet, a frozen fresh petfood company, will help kick off the grand opening of the newest location of Unleashed by PETCO – a small concept pet store – later this month in Chula Vista, California, USA.
My Perfect Pet will offer pets and their owners samples of all-natural dog food.
