Canned Food at HPNW

Right after Raw Food Month, we ushered in celebration of our canned food. Perhaps you’ve already saw some promotions in store. This may also just be coinciding at a time when you’re considering switching brands from one canned food to…

Dogs, Cats and Garlic

We work a lot with myths in the pet industry, and in a lot of ways it’s no different from the human food industry. Apparently food lobbying brought into existence the grain-heavy food pyramid, which has now been changed into…

Thoughts on Raw Diets

June is Raw Food Month at Healthy Pets Northwest, and so I’ve been commissioned to write about the benefits of a raw diet for your animal, and to share the experiences of feeding our dogs raw. I should say outright…

From Show Dog to Tripaw

In the late summer of 2010, I flew from our long-time Alaskan home to Seattle to pick up a very special delivery – an eight-week-old, 20-pound Akita puppy. He was tired and cautious after his long flight from Ohio, but…