How it started

Today is Sunday and seems like a good day to give a little background on our biscuit business.

Lucky Dog Biscuits started 4 years ago. It actually started as Puppy Love Bakery at the St. Norbert Farmers Market. My husband Quinn and I were looking for something to do together that would use his entrepreneurial spirit and both our our educations and experience. At the same time, we were waiting for our first dog Ruben. We went shopping to look for food and treats and couldn't find anything that met our expectations. This was our first experience at "parenthood" and we took it pretty seriously. With my background as an animal scientist a veterinary technician, I understood what the terms "animal digest", "meal" and BHA and BHT meant and couldn't find anything without it. So it hit us, let's make a food. We backed off that idea a bit and dialed it back to starting to make biscuits. Homemade, flavourful, healthy biscuits for dogs. At the time, it was a bit of a novel idea. At first I didn't think there was any way we could compete with the very well marketed yet full of poop Milkbone but Quinn had faith. We tested recipes on friends and family, had the dogs fill out questionnaires as to their favorites and a little business was born. As we've grown, we've tried different packaging and recipes but we always, ALWAYS made sure our biscuits were baked in a HUMAN GRADE facility using HUMAN GRADE ingredients. This is what makes Lucky Dog Biscuits different. Not only are they formulated using high nutrition value ingredients, but they're perfectly safe for you to eat. Actually, they're probably one of the healthiest things you'll eat all day! In fact we encourage you to try one, right on the side of the package. The only way we can do this is baking them in a bakery that also bakes for people. They're baked right next to cinnamon buns and cookies for people. This is the only way we could guarantee the level of quality we achieved from the beginning and insist on achieving today. While some other manufacturers of foods and biscuits might say they use human grade ingredients (and some of those same companies have been recalled for not only using ingredients that aren't human grade but poisoned) but unless they are made in a bakery or food facility fit for human consumption, then it really doesn't mean much.

so that's what we do. We love it. It's SUPER hard sometimes but at the end of the day we're doing the right thing and we're doing something different.

Thank you for your comments!! We started this blog to connect with others out there who share our passions for healthy food for dogs and we're pumped to talk to you!

We will be running a contest for pictures shortly, stay tuned for that.

Replies to Comment Questions

KAL - we will post recipes for all sorts of good stuff shortly, promise. First we want to make sure we provide some nutrition background.

HEATHER - poor Jake. No fun being the one with dog breath you can smell across the room! It depends on the source of the bad breath: tartar buildup, rotting teeth, a more serious condition like liver or kidney disease or just bad breath. I'd start with a good death cleaning at the vet and make sure there aren't any teeth that have to come out. Let me know how that goes and if that's not the case, we'll keep working on it with supplements like chlorophyll and mint!

Katherine - Stay posted for some variations on the dog food recipe I gave you and some supplement ideas. Billy must just be loving her new food!

Shayla - feel free to start sending your pictures in anytime. Try to send the best quality pictures you have and be sure to include a bio on each dog. Looking forward to it!

Talk to you soon!

Comments

[amber]

Hello, I found your site and was wondering if you have any catfood recipes or if you might delve into the feline side of things in the future. My kitties have sensitive stomachs and I would like to feed them something healthy that doesn't upset them. Feel free to email me back. Thanks in advance

[Kal Barteski]

GOOD POST! I love it when company's are borne out of passion. That's what makes Lucky Dog so cool - the totally authentic, genuine wish to create healthy stuff for pets. That's what I like.