Lorne Greene 1978 Alpo Dog Food Commercial That's a commercial I remember growing up. Did you catch what Lorne said? "Alpo *beef flavored* dinner. Protein *flavored* with *real beef juices*". What is beef flavor? What are beef juices? Notice no mention of meat but the allusion that meat/beef is used. This is when the big
I hear stories like this rather frequently as you might guess, nearly weekly in fact. But this one story stood out for some reason. A person has fed her dogs Fetching Foods samples, loves it, saw for herself the benefits, even KNOWS the benefits of raw. She got a new $3500 puppy. She said she
This is the first Fetching Foods magazine article. The publisher framed the article to memorialize it. Very cool. Here's the article's text: Where did you grow up? How long have you lived in the area? Las Vegas welcomed me in 2006 from my birth city of Sacramento, California. I was raised just north in a
You look at the label, comparison shop, find the best food for your dog or cat. You're paying a bunch for it too, so it must be good, right? There's so much marketing sleight-of-hand with pet foods... For example ask yourself why would a company take "whole, fresh meat" and then *process* it into kibble,
Video here It’s well known that protein, and the quality of the protein, is important for the maintenance and development of you pet's skin and coat. Hair is more than 90% protein. Skin and hair, with normal turn-over, requires 30% of the animal’s daily protein intake. Protein deficiency from an inadequate diet can be seen
A companion video is located here: https://youtu.be/IDyCrl4nVmk Ever hear the saying, “an ounce of prevention’s worth a pound of cure”? When it comes to medical issues, Americans prefer to handle diseases with cures rather than prevention. A cure usually means you start taking action at a trigger point. You can see direct results. It FEELS
If you have a pet that's afraid of fireworks, like our ridgeback Rosie, then you might want to take a few steps to ease her fear. There are desensitization programs that you can put them on to mitigate the effects of fireworks, ahead of a fireworks-holiday. But if you find yourself just now thinking
This is a companion blog to our DIY for Raw Dog Meals article. You can also watch the supplemental video on the Fetching Foods YouTube channel HERE. Check out our basic starter kit for turkey, venison, and rabbit. Here's an additional (entertaining and humorous) video by The Two Crazy Cat Ladies, using the recipe. Fetching Foods
To answer the question simply: yes, you can. Perhaps you’ve heard otherwise, or there are some caveats. That’s what this article will get into. *In case you’re wondering, kibble is dry food artificially formed into little brown shapes most people feed their dogs and cats. (I recently added a video to complement this blog, potentially
Dry, cereal-based pet foods (aka kibble) caught on during World War II, when tin rationing put a stop to non-essential canning. Pet owners were delighted because dry pet food was less messy, stinky, and more convenient. As a satisfied Spratt's Patent Cat Food customer of yesteryear put it, the little biscuits were "both handy and
