No longer carrying Acana and Orijen pet food
Paw of the Family
Hey Paw Family!
It's time for another blog post. I believe the title says it all when it comes to what this blog post will talk about.
Acana and Orijen are 2 extremely good dog food brands that are both owned by Champion Pet Foods. Champion has won best pet food company 8 years in a row! We have been thrilled to be able to sell their products in the store to our customers.
So why are you removing these two brands from the store and why is there a big picture of who makes dog foods at the top of the post? To put it short, Champion Pet Food is being purchased by Mars the candy bar company.
Mars values and our values here at Paw of the Family do not align when it comes to pet food and the nutrition we give our animals. We tell everyone who walks into our doors that there is nothing in this store that we would not feed to our own pets. We of course need to make money to keep the doors open and to be able to pay the bills, but the money is secondary to us. Helping our community in taking care of their pets, helping with advice, and providing a place where you can trust that what you are feeding your animals is safe and healthy is NUMBER 1 BY FARRRRRR! (capitalized, in bold, and extended last word to emphasize lol). Quote from Mars pet food 5 core principles, "We base decisions on Mutuality of benefit to our stakeholders." https://www.mars.com/about/five-principles
Mars produces other brands such as Pedigree, Eukunuba (which was once a great food), Cesar, Royal Canin (also once a great food), etc.. All using ingredients such as Corn and by-products, and some using non named meats, fats, and even worse, using ingredients such as BHA/BHT which are believed to be cancer causing (1 in 15 dogs get cancer these days).
It doesn't matter what brand it happens to be, we WILL honor our promise to this community to put our pets first and not the money.
Mars has already started discussing innovation and streamlining the products that Champion offers, and this often leads to reduced QA standards even if they didn't change a single ingredient, such as plastic and metal shavings being found in their foods. (https://healthypetproducts.net/blog/the-top-5-manufacturers-of-recalled-pet-food/) We would rather get ahead of any of that, than to risk any bad products being sold from our store.
We are sorry to those in the community that buy these foods from us, however, we are already hard at work on a replacement. We are leaning towards Farmina as the replacement but we would LOVE to hear from you!
Best Regards,
Paw of the Family