FLEAS ON PARADE

Posted on May 11, 2013 by My Pet Blog

They aren’t just coming, they’re here.   And if you want to fight them without chemicals, My Pet Naturally has the protocol down.   First of all, you need to realize this is a war.   It’s imperative to treat your whole environment.  The house.  The bedding.  The yard.  The pet.  The natural way to do this is with diatomaceous earth, which we carry as a food grade product. It’s a powder you lay down and then vacuum up.  Fleas are becoming resistant to chemical control, but the way a natural flea product like Paraclear works is to dehydrate them until they’re dead.  And unless fleas grow armor, it’s always going to work.

A bath, and at best a professional groomer’s bath, is a good idea.   The professional bathers at My Pet Naturally Clean will de-shed your pet first, and have a pretty good idea of the flea situation at that point.  We use natural but effective flea shampoo and usually wash and rinse much more vigorously that you might do at home.   So flea control  is much more thorough.

My Pet Naturally carries a select group of products that are as good as they get for natural flea control.   In addition to Azmira’s Paraclear and Lumino Datamaceous Earth we like Ark Naturals Neem Protect Spray which also relieves itching  and their Flea Flicker Tick Kicker which is a strong natural repellant.  The excellent company Keys supplies My Pet Naturally with a whole line of products we love, particularly Koda by Keys Omnishield Natural Insect Repellant and Keys Redicare and Metacare which have Neem oil for soothing and flea repelling.

So start your flea prevention program now.  Drop by My Pet Naturally or give us a call and we’ll answer any questions you may have.

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ADVICE FOR JULY FOURTH: THINK LIKE A DOG.

Posted on July 4, 2012 by My Pet Blog

July Fourth is a famous day for dog misery.  Well adjusted or not, dogs don’t usually like chaos; and the Fourth is twenty four hours of behavior that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.   Even if you are a person who enjoys an open flame, lighting a tiny little finger sized bomb and tossing it helter skelter isn’t a particularly rational extension of building a campfire.   Let’s warm ourselves by the fire, have some dinner, and then blow something up.

I’m not a fan of explosions so I can get the dog’s point of view pretty easily.   Fireworks are loud.  They are random.  They are harbingers of destruction –as in lightening following thunder or the tree falling on the house after it breaks with a mighty “CRacKKK!”.  But on the Fourth, human beings seem to disregard the natural function of noise and applaud it.   Weird.

So the dog doesn’t like the Fourth.  Doesn’t like the noise.  Doesn’t like the way we act.   Wishes it were all over.   And in the meantime, he might shake, or bark, or hide, or just generally give you the wide eyed googly look of a whale about to eat a shark, or throw one up.

Yet people somehow ignore the dog’s attempts to ask for peace and quiet.  They take the dog out with them to see the fireworks.  Or into the alley to watch while they set something off.   And they give him a bath the day before so he will be presentable.   People.  Get a clue.

This year, do your dog a favor.   If you can, shut the windows and put on some music that soothes you.    If the dog gets nervous on the Fourth, consider wrapping him in a tight jacket – I did not say straight jacket – like a Thundershirt.   Give the dog a bone and put him in his crate.   Turn on the TV if you want to see fireworks, but shut off the sound.    Barbecue if you will, but try not to behave like a banshee or your dog will fear you are announcing something doom like.

We have products in the store for this particular holiday that we like a lot.  Calm and Relax, a homeopathic treatment from Asmarawill do just that for a nervous pet.  Happy Traveler by Ark Naturals settles stomachs as well as nerves so it’s good for a dog that is being brought places on the Fourth.   The aforementioned Thundershirt is a wrap around jacket that seems to cut down on a pet’s reactivity (read: panic) to a notable degree.   And if your dog tolerates your idea of July 4th, he deserves a monster bone. We have those too.  Even if he won’t touch it until the noise is over.

And if he doesn’t want to eat, by the way, leave him alone.

Make sure your dog is on a leash, tagged for identification and not so afraid that he is at danger of bolting if you take him to see the fireworks.  Treat often.   Pace yourself for his sake.  And when the day is over, thank him for putting up with a world that is nothing like the one he would have created if he were king.   God I love dogs.   Someone put a crown on that mutt with the twinkle in her eye.  Now you’re talking.

 

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SUMMER’S ALMOST GONE: FLEAS ON PARADE

Posted on September 9, 2011 by My Pet Blog

I suppose you have to chalk it up to luck, but I have had dogs all my life and only had the mildest flea problem once in all those years.

This summer, I had the fleas that ate Chicago on my dogs.   Mean fleas.  Determined fleas.  Circus fleas.  It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t comfortable and it wasn’t easy to deal with.  In fact I am still dealing with it now.   My beautiful dogs have bare legs and bumpy chests.  My two cats are chasing their tails.   Mars managed to chew his feet to pieces in thirty minutes.  Astra’s butt fluff, her only bit of modesty in a tailless world, is gone.   Every few hours they started scratching and couldn’t stop.  Mars started doing a flea hop walk with one stride forward and one leg up to scratch under his arm.  Ahhhhrgh!

I have learned my lesson.  And I have some advice to share as a result.

When your dogs start scratching, don’t chalk it up to environmental allergies, even though they are worse than ever in the summer with the heat, humidity and the pollen.   If I had it to do over I would have gotten my dog bathed at My Pet Naturally Clean when he first started to scratch and ask the groomer to look for fleas or done it myself.  If you find them, make sure they are all off before you take your dog or cat out of the tub.  A commercial dryer will in fact blow the fleas to kingdom come.  But they might not be dead.  Better to take them off one at a time and kill them between your nails.

Be proactive if you want to stay natural.  If your pet is itching, you need to get to the cause quickly.   Vacuum your apartment, do the laundry,  all the laundry, including the towels and the bedding.  Use a non-toxic spray on your dogs and your furnishings. Over and over again.  Put down some diatomaceous earth and leave it there for a few hours before vacuuming it up.  Diatomaceous earth is a food grade powder.  Many people eat it to get rid of internal parasites.  It is just the right shape to pierce the exoskeleton of the flea and kill it with natural dehydration.  Don’t forget to treat areas under furniture.  Treat your car.  This is war.

Any itchy spot your pet develops needs to be treated with a topical anti-itch, anti bacterial spray to keep it from getting worse.   Scratching compulsively can give your dog a yeast infection.   Keys’ Metacare healing lotion is a phenomenal product.   Everyone at My Pet Naturally uses it on themselves and their pets.    Natural sprays with neem or cedar should definitely be employed and often.  It’s the odor that drives off the fleas. If you can’t smell it, neither can they.  This might cause your dog to act like a jumping bean rolling downhill, but that’s life with fleas.    You will be tempted to put a tee shirt on your dog to stop the itching.  Please consider the temperature first.   Vacuum bags need to be primed with Paraclear (our brand of diatomaceous earth) and tossed out; bagless brands need to be cleaned.   Look everywhere for fleas.  What you don’t know will hurt you… and your pets.  Dogs and cats may need a bath weekly for a few weeks.   You will find that the pet who hated water is suddenly less interested in fighting you.  That’s because it’s one of the few things that seems to quiet the stingy itchy monster.   Make sure if you bathe more often (you are stripping away natural oils that keep the coat healthy) that you use a moisturizing conditioner; the one  we like at My Pet Naturally is Azmira’s Organic Conditioner. Consider a Shoo Tag, a magnetic tag that hangs from your pet’s collar and repels fleas.

Here’s the really bad news.  You maybe have to do this three times before you’ve got the fleas bitten.  I mean beaten.  And even then if you let the fleas get out of hand, you might have to do a chemical bomb and then de-chemical your house like crazy.   Because there is no question that fleas do tremendous damage to the quality of a pet’s life.   And if you have a flea crisis, you might have little choice but to turn to chemicals, which is something we all try to avoid

Once the fleas are gone, you can’t really rest.  You can only start over.  And the name of the game is flea prevention.  Which is everything you just did to get rid of them, on a regular basis.  Now I have to go vacuum.  Sigh.

My Pet Naturally carries the following products for Flea Control

Products that kill fleas

Paraclear by Azmira, diatomaceous Earth  Dehydrates fleas.

Ingested products that change a pet’s odor to make it less attractive to fleas

Garlic powder

MSM powder

Raw food is also said to be less of an allure than kibble.

My Pet Naturally also carries repellants:

Nature’s Inventory Wellness Oil Flea and Tick repellant w/peppermint, jojoba, eucalyptus, rosemary and citronella.

Organic Neem Dip by Azmira

Organic Neem Spray by  Azmira

Management products at My Pet Naturally:

A variety of shampoos and neep dip from companies like Azmira, Organic Oscar, Envirogroom and others.

Procollar soft Elizabethan collars to keep a pet from scratching

Shoo Tag magnetic repellant tag

Products that soothe:  We have many of these at My Pet Naturally and also at My Pet Naturally… Clean

Keys Reddi Care products Neem and Karanja oil are the best product we’ve found for soothing itchy dogs and healing skin breakouts.

Yucca intensive is a natural anti inflammatory.  Newton Flea and Bug Bite is a homeopathic.

Astra and Mars and my apartment and car are defleaed.  I am still dealing with ragged skin and the itchy aftermath of the attack of the fleas and I know now to make flea prevention part of my life.

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THE WOLF CONNECTION and MY PET NATURALLY

Posted on September 2, 2011 by My Pet Blog

My Pet Naturally is pleased to announce a friendship with The Wolf Connection,   The Wolf Connection is a unique and powerfully life-changing organization that teams at-risk youth with wolf dogs in a transformational bonding process of mutual care, respect and honor for the natural world.    If you are a Wolf Connection friend and you let us know, we will donate a portion of our profit to the Wolf Connection.   We are also supplying them with food for their animals and hoping to do a fund raising event for them soon.  Check them out at:   http://www.wolfconnection.org/

About Wolf Connection:

Wolf Connection was founded in 2009 by Teo Alfero, who’s life ambition is to be of service to future generations. For that reason, Wolf Connection is not the typical wolf and wolfdog rescue organization.

First and foremost, Wolf Connection is a youth education and empowerment program, with rescued wolves and wolfdogs as the centerpiece. With the help of the animals, young men and women reconnect with nature, learn to be of service by responsibly caring for another being, and work towards becoming the kind of person they want to be. The animals help them focus on their impulses, feelings and emotions in a constructive way; they learn to forgive and give others (and themselves) a second chance. They also reflect on, and learn about, loyalty, honesty, integrity, courage, contribution to society, commitment, sense of purpose, and self confidence.

Our social network covers an even broader spectrum. True to its tagline, “An ancient bond for modern times”, its purpose is to provide a place that connects not only wolf and wolfdog lovers across the world, but also animal lovers in general. People who feel a deep appreciation and connection to the animals in their lives, and to the animals of the world. People who feel that connection to animals is enriching their lives and their relationships with all life forms (including humans) on a day-to-day basis.

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PIT BOSS EPISODE AT MY PET NATURALLY

Posted on September 1, 2011 by My Pet Blog

If you caught the latest episode of the Animal Planet show Pit Boss, entitled “Separate Ways,”  the grooming salon in the episode is My Pet Naturally… Clean! The pretty young receptionist is our very own Sarah.   It turns out Sarah has a talent for theatrics and she is already working in rescue, she raises kittens for adoption through the West Los Angeles Shelter.   We do dog adoptions here on Sundays through Lhasa Happy Homes, and are proud to have been able to work with Shorty and the Pit Boss Crew. And very proud of Sarah for all that she is and does.

For more information on the episode or to find out how you can watch it please visit Pit Boss’s site on Animal Planet!

Also visit Lhasa Happy Homes  for more information on our Sunday adoptions!

Sarah and Friends Xmas 2010 @ MPN - Thanks for being so awesome Sarah!

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Is premium pet food worth the price?

Posted on July 21, 2011 by My Pet Blog

We recently heard a Money 101 segment with Bob McKormick on KNX 1070 radio here in Los Angeles, suggesting that a way to cut costs for pet owners is to avoid premium pet food.   If what he means is “more expensive without having true value”, we agree.  But as sellers of pet food that contains ingredients which are much more nutritious, less injurious, and easier for dogs to remain in excellent health upon, we would like to say that Mr. McKormack is incorrect in generalizing that a food which costs less is better to feed your pet than a food which is more expensive but contains higher quality and healthier ingredients — even if you are thinking about dollars and sense.

 

 

 

 

Fact one:  The amount you pay for vet bills is frequently related to the diet you are feeding your pet.  Everything from kidney stones, to skin allergies like hot spots to systemic yeast infections starts with what you feed.  Feed bargain food and you save money when it goes in, but pay double when you need the dog to be treated medically to deal with what happens to the dog on that cheap diet.  Mr. McKormack cited an eight hundred dollar vet bill.  We wonder if any of it was related to allergies or other issues in which nutrition is a factor.

Fact two: Grains like corn, wheat and soy, popular fillers in inexpensive foods, will cause all kinds of issues in dogs from skin breakouts like hot spots to chronic gastrointestinal problems like irritable bowel syndrome, to behavior issues like hyperactivity.   My Pet Naturally does not sell food that contains corn, wheat or soy.

 

Fact three:  Inexpensive foods frequently use animal by-products, which contain parts of the animal other than muscle meat.   Farm animals which die of unknown causes or are euthanized are salvaged for bargain pet food.  Other salvaged animals and parts of animals considered offal – like entrails, skin, heads, feet, beaks –  may also enter the “mix.” These “by products” are cooked at a high temperature until they become a grayish, homogenized meal.    This is not a product deemed fit for human consumption.  It is only utilized for pets because  animals they aren’t considered to have the same value as people.  In other words, their life is cheap.   By the way, because this process destroys so many nutrients, “supplemental” vitamins and minerals are added.  Nothing about the product resembles something you would want to eat.

 

Fact four:  The pet food industry’s governing council, The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), has established guidelines for when a pet food product can be labeled “complete and balanced.”  This is a private organization whose members come from the industry it polices and it sets its own standards without oversight regulation.
Fact five: When you determine what it costs to feed a product, you must calculate based on whether the food takes four cups to give a certain amount of calories or one cup.  When you buy a big bag at Wal-Mart, do you know how much of it you have to feed versus a smaller bag of better food at My Pet Naturally?

There are more than just practical reasons to feed quality, natural food to an animal that you have stewardship over.  As Handy said, you can judge a nation by how it treats its animals.  Do you think of animals as having value, needs and feelings that deserve kind consideration? Or do you think of them as being somehow too inconsequential or not valuable enough to treat well?   Kindness and decency in how we regard not just our pets, but also the animals that are slaughtered to make their food and ours, is worth cultivated even if it costs a little more.   Of course we would argue that it costs less to make choices for a holistic food in which the animals used to produce it are farmed decently.   A morally uncertain, or worse, disdainful, attitude towards the suffering of livestock or the quality of the life of a companion animal has a cost of its own.

 

My Pet Naturally’s mission is to offer the consumer healthy food for a healthy pet.  Our staff is educated and professional and can help you make an informed choice that is right for your dog or cat.   Brands like Origen and Petcurean use free-range animals and no by products in their food.  The Honest Kitchen, an air-dried raw food, is less expensive than canned.   Party Animal has a range of organic food.  And Harmony Farms makes a raw balanced diet for pets that uses human grade ingredients.   While these food cost a little more, we would eat the pet food that we sell.  We doubt that anyone would eat the pet food that they buy at a big box budget store.

 

We would like to invite Mr. McKormack to reconsider how he makes decisions about what to feed his pets.     While value is his area of expertise, pet nutrition is ours.  There are many sources of information about what goes into pet food and it’s worth investigating.   There is no question that bargain food can have an expensive backlash.  And that decently priced, well sourced and produced “premium” food that is natural, holistic and even organic and which you choose with the help of an informed professional at a store like My Pet Naturally, can be much less costly to feed in the long run.

 

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Sofie Pup: The Story of a Rescued Dog

Posted on July 8, 2011 by My Pet Blog

SOFIE USES THE LEOS LIKE PILLOWS TO SLEEP ON.

We’ve all heard those heartbreaking stories of unwanted dogs or cats being abandoned.  We connected with Lhasa Happy Homes, who does pet adoptions out of the store on Sundays, to do what we could to give as many of those stories happy endings.  These adoptions help, but not every abandoned pet is fortunate enough to be part of an adoption group.

One morning about six months ago I arrived at My Pet Naturally and saw a light brown dog left tied next to the dumpster on the alley beside our Pico Blvd store.   She was a young female who looked to be part Rhodesian Ridgeback and part Lab.  She was very skinny, but seemed very friendly and would make adorable facial expressions with her droopy dark lips.

I couldn’t just leave her out there, so I took her into my office at the store and scheduled a time for the vet to take a look at her.  She had no tags and no microchip.  We put up a notice but nobody appeared to be looking for her.   So we got her up to date with her shots and started feeding her Harmony Farms raw food.   For the time being, she came home with me.   She began filling out and acting more playful and energetic.  She played with my Leonbergers Rocco and Zutch even when they just wanted to lie around, which was very funny to see.   She even started to sleep on them, using them like a pair of big floor pillows and making herself comfortable in what can only be described as a Leonberger sandwich.   Sheepish when she first showed up, she became more outgoing and friendly.  And her eyes were so expressive that you would swear she knew how to talk and any minute she’s come out with a quip on the meaning of life.   It seemed like we knew this dog well enough to name her.  The little reddish brown dog with the ridge down her back, the pouty full lips and the energy of an Energizer Bunny became “Sofie.”

We already have two Leonbergers, a cat, a salt-water aquarium, and a house constantly filled with people that require more care than our pets.  Now that Sophie was healthy and well-adjusted we planned to adopt her out to a new home.  She would make someone a terrific rescue pet.   My wife thought so too.

Pets come into our lives many ways.  Finding a lost, abandoned or neglected pet running loose is a common event.   Many people assume this means the dog is homeless.  That anyone who deserved to own a dog wouldn’t lose one.  But accidents happen.  Gardeners let out dogs.  They escape from cars in accidents.  A dogwalker trips and drops a leash.   The dog slips out of an ill-fitting collar.

How to keep from losing a pet? These are just the bullet points:  Make sure your pet is micro chipped.   It is routine for any dog professional – a vet, a rescue person — seeing a dog that has been found for the first time to check it for a microchip.  Make sure your dog has a tag with identifying information on a well-fitted collar.  Walk your dog on a collar that he or she cannot slip out of.  It is no kindness to keep a collar so loose that the dog can get out of it.  The rule is two fingers of slack, no more.  We like to suggest walking dogs on martingale collars because the dog can’t slip out of them.  If you come into My Pet Naturally we will gladly show you the different collars and how they are properly fitted.   When in doubt about coming and going at your house, crate the dog.   We prefer a crate to a closed room because people open doors to closed rooms without thinking but they don’t open crates that way.   Make sure your dog has a good “Come” when called.    Take a class if you have to, but get your recall down.  And don’t ever call your dog to do something he doesn’t care for.  Go and get him.

What if you find a dog?   If it’s left tied up at the doorstep to your pet store, it’s a fair assumption it’s been abandoned. But even then, don’t assume nobody wants it.  The best thing to do is bring it to the pound, because that’s where the owners are going to be able to find it. You will have the first right to claim the dog after the holding period is over and this will give you time to figure out the details of adopting a new pet into your family.   If you absolutely won’t consider this, you are still responsible for trying to find the owners.  Put an ad on Craigslist.  Put up flyers.   Check for a microchip.  Do what you would want someone to do if your dog were lost.  If nobody claims the dog, you can make it a part of your family in good conscience and with total happiness.

The next morning when I heading out to My Pet Naturally, I saw Sofie waiting at the window watching me leave.  Her tail was wagging.  She was grinning with fat lipped enthusiasm.   And she looked just a little worried.   I went back in and talked to Wendy.  Sophie had wiggled her way into our hearts.  We couldn’t let her go.  She’s part of the family now.

Neil Massa with Gerry Hirschfeld & Pat Troise for My Pet Naturally

 

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Containing Pets: The Truth About Crates and Ex-Pens

Posted on June 28, 2011 by My Pet Blog

Mars the Leonberger and Astra the Swedish Vallhund are in My Pet Naturally most days.  When we get here in the morning they go for a run back and forth if the store is empty, and then head directly for the exercise pen where they hang out during the day.  It’s their choice to get inside and chill.  Always.

 

A lot of people ask about the exercise pens.  They want to know why the dogs are not free to roam the store.   Occasionally customers think the dogs are not happy.  This is because we ascribe preconceived notions that to be within bars is a bad thing.  Many of us probably got this idea from bad prison movies, although a few might have gotten this idea from a more direct experience.  The fear that being in a contained space is bad frequently keeps people from crate training their dogs.

 

It’s important, however, to remember that people (generally) like to sleep in houses or in bedrooms with the door closed.  We like to be contained when containment implies safety and security.  The idea of being contained only becomes negative when it is perceived as being contained against out will or trapped.

 

Dogs are no different.  My dogs feel at home in their exercise pen.  They would rather be with me, getting tremendous amounts of socialization at the store and in their exercise pen than alone at home with free run of the house.  This brings us back to the initial question.  Why aren’t the dogs free to roam the store?  The answer is quite simple; they are much more safe in the exercise pen.   There is always the possibility of unsafe dogs coming into any pet store.  For a strange dog to greet them in a narrow space creates the possibility that there will be a fight.    No thank you.

 

Dogs can react to ex-pens negatively sometimes.  First of all, they are pack animals and separation is something they have to learn to tolerate if they want to share a life with humans.    A crate actually helps with this if owners are firm and understanding and build up time in the crate a little at a time.   A crate also helps with housebreaking and can reduce the destructiveness of a teething puppy.   But it’s important to note that a crate is not an alternative to training the dog to be a good citizen.  Separation anxiety, teething, and housebreaking all need their own training program.  A crate is a tool.  It’s how you use it.

 

Next time you see Mars and Astra in their living room, imagine they are gazing out a picture window.   It will change your perception.   People who have not crate trained or containment trained their dogs are missing out on one of the best ways to get a dog to chill and to chill with them.  Talk to your trainer or do some investigation and get your dog a clubhouse.  He’ll thank you for it.

 

Pat Troise for My Pet Naturally

 

 

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WHAT IS A CHEW TOY?

Posted on June 19, 2011 by My Pet Blog

Customers come into My Pet Naturally all the time looking for an indestructible chew toy. We invite you to reconsider this concept.  A “Chew toy” is an oxymoron.

That dogs chew footballs and rubber sticks and frisbees don’t make those things great chew toys.  They are great toys, but they are not primarily chews.

Dogs chew for two reasons.   As puppies they chew  because their adult teeth are emerging and it feels good to massage the gums until the baby teeth are out.  As adults they chew to get the last bit of value from a food item.   Both  of these activities create a general connection between chewing and pleasure.  This is why the dog chews up your chair legs, his bed and your Iphone.

This is also why there are a ton of toys out there designated as “chew toys” by the general public.  You might notice, however, that many although not all of the manufacturers of these items are less forthcoming in using the word “chew” with even their toughest toys.

in any case, Dogs absolutely must chew.  We think that the most appropriate item for a dog to chew on is not a toy.  It’s either skin or bone or some artificial version of the same.  The artificial chews are also artificially flavored.  Doesn’t sound good to us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We keep our chews together at the west L.A . pet and grooming store, in our infamous bone bar .  There dogs can get value and pleasure for their pearly whites with items as small as chicken feet and as large as full leg femur bones.  Or they can get our very favorite, raw marrow bones, from the raw section.    They like them frozen as well as defrosted.

Dogs can also get toys at the store.  Toys fall into a few categories but the main ones are fetch toys, tug toys  and disembowelable toys.  Don’t be surprised if your dog repeatedly takes his soft toys apart.  That’s what dogs do.  And if you notice, they take the toys apart from the weakest point — often the equivalent of an animal’s navel.   Play behavior after all is a stylized way of learning and practicing survival skills.  The dog is a prey animal.  Almost all play behavior is based on his hunting skill set.

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The Honest Kitchen

Posted on June 7, 2011 by My Pet Blog

All the Benefits of Raw in a Food that Sets the Trend

 

Dogs Know What They Like

The trend these days is towards dehydrated foods for pets.  They are stable, have a high degree of palatability, and you can take them anywhere with great convenience, even outer space!

We sell a great deal of the Honest Kitchen’s excellent products.  We are definitely in favor of a raw food diet, but we understand that not every pet owner wants to deal with fresh raw food.  My Pet Naturally has the solution.  Neil calls it Astronaut food.  It’s a premium dehydrated raw food diet from The Honest Kitchen that lots of dogs really love.

Who’s Eating Your Dog’s Food?

What is this stuff?  The Honest Kitchen products bridge the gap between raw and commercial pet foods.  They start with fresh raw ingredients bursting with vitamins and antioxidants and then they gently dehydrate them.  Simply re-hydrate with warm water, and a wholesome healthy meal is ready to serve.  So ready, that when The Honest Kitchen staff came to My Pet Naturally and introduced the store to their product they mixed up a batch and started picking out the bananas, which they ate themselves.

Kick the Can

Choose from eight core diets including Embark for active dogs, Keen for dogs that do well with some grain in their diet, or Preference, their fruit and vegetable foundation diet that you mix with your own choice of fresh protein.  My Pet Naturally is happy to help you pick the right product from The Honest Kitchen menu.  And remember, the Honest Kitchen is the ultimate travel food, even if you are heading into outer space.

What happens, really, when you add water to the Honest Kitchen?  It looks, tastes and has nearly the same nutritional value as it did in its original raw form.  This means that you are getting 100% human food grade ingredients, fruits and vegetables harvested at peak season, meats and eggs dehydrated at a temperature that destroys any bacteria, healthy fats, protein and fiber, vitamins, minerals, amino acids — all the fuel your pet needs to thrive.

How does the Honest Kitchen compare to canned food?   Well, for example, a 4-pound box of Embark contains roughly the amount of food in twenty or twenty-one 13 oz cans.  This makes the Honest Kitchen a much better value, ounce for ounce and while we aren’t knocking canned food, the whole food nutrition of raw food is nonpareil for your pet’s well being.

The folks at My Pet Naturally want you to know that The Honest Kitchen has all the benefits of a raw food diet while being safe to handle, and easy to store and prepare.  The finished product is nutritious, delicious, convenient and healthy.  Neil at My Pet Naturally has one question he uses to decide if a food is quality or not.  That question is:  Could you eat it yourself in an earthquake?  With The Honest Kitchen, the answer is:  Yes you could.  And it would taste just fine.

 

 

 

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