RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – In honor of National Pet Day, KOLO 8 is highlighting Reno’s solely 100% human grade, contemporary meals firm for dogs.
Tyson Waldron and Jonathan Burnham have been greatest pals since their days on the University of Nevada, Reno.
“We’ve been climbing partners, roommates, adventure buddies. We’ve traveled all over the world,” mentioned Burnham.
The pair even labored collectively at pizza eating places earlier than working in media collectively.
“We spent a lot of years working for other companies where our goal was to make their brand popular and we wanted to do something where we could be all in on ourselves,” Burnham mentioned.
Now, Waldron and Burnham co-own Good Pup Food Co., which was born out of an epiphany. Already making do-it-yourself meals for his canine with digestive points, Waldron realized he ought to do that full time.
“I just decided to go all in with it and design a way more complete recipe then I was already making. Pretty soon I had a viable product. I brought it to Jon and he was excited right away because he had an elderly dog who had a ton of issues at the end of her life,” recollects Waldron.
Because it’s human grade, a lot of the components are native, hand-picked, and handcrafted in small batches.
“We can’t hide behind forming our food into a pellet, what you see is what you get,” mentioned Waldron.
Since I’m certain you’re already pondering it, in fact I needed to ask in the event that they’ve tried the meals themselves.
“I sneak bites of meat all time,” Waldron mentioned. Burnham, the vegetarian, provides: “We also had a friend of ours eat some as well and he gave us the thumbs up.”
Waldron and Burnham spent a variety of time researching their recipe and, they are saying, they landed on ratio between meat, veggies, and carbohydrates. The mix equates to is 55 to 60% % meat, 25% veggies, and 20% carbs.
The two clarify that contemporary meals can improve the lifespan of a canine over feeding them kibble alone.
“Kibble is just a burnt piece of brown pellet. We gently cook our meats and veggies, and blanche our veggies before immediately freezing the bags,” Burnham mentioned.
Recent research present that some manufacturers of kibble can negatively influence your canine’s well being as a result of it may be made with preservatives, is extruded at excessive temperatures, accommodates little moisture, has extra carbohydrates, and generally low-quality components. Burnham says that some firms are even dishonest concerning the components usually.
“Just today we were looking at another brand of kibble. It was “beef and bison,” however there wasn’t any bison included. It was beef meal and a few rooster poultry meal with none bison. So, there’s positively some bizarre advertising and marketing that a few of these main manufacturers can get away with so we simply needed to give attention to human grade that we knew was going to be good and wholesome,” Burnham mentioned.
They do that as a result of they consider there’s no higher trigger than extending the lives of our beloved pets. So you may really feel good figuring out your pets meals was made for canine folks, by canine folks.
“That connection and bond you have….you just want the absolute best for them,” mentioned Burnham.
If you’re considering giving contemporary meals a attempt go to goodpupfood.com. Waldron and Burnham even arrange a promo code particular for KOLO. At try sort in kolo8 and also you’ll get 50% off and free transport in your first order.
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