HUNDE Pet nutrition that's as unconditionally good as their love for you. HUNDE was founded by Clare Kearney in 2015. Pip is a bloody handful.
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HUNDE is borne out of a belief that the food we feed our pets should be as unconditionally good as their love is for us. The intention of HUNDE is to empower people with the tools to make informed choices on behalf of their pets, so they can live long, healthy + happy lives together. The HUNDE range features thoughtfully created balancing blends to ensure that, no matter your circumstances, your p

ets can enjoy the enormous benefits of a homemade, fresh food diet. Clare is an Australian pet nutritionist + writer, specialising in canine and feline nutrition. Clare lives on Bundjalung Country in Northern NSW with her dogs, Tex Perkins and Pip. Tex is a kelpie who likes baths and hates electropop. Clare has studied small animal and natural nutrition at the Holistic Animal Therapy Organisation and the College of Integrative Veterinary Therapies, and has spent the better part of a decade actively educating herself about nutrition and the pet food industry.

What’s your favourite mushroom? 🍄🍄‍🟫🔮⁠⁠A bit of market research: do you like having functional mushrooms in our balancin...
03/12/2024

What’s your favourite mushroom? 🍄🍄‍🟫🔮⁠

A bit of market research: do you like having functional mushrooms in our balancing blends? We’ve been making our blends in their original form for a while now, and it’s definitely time for a review. We know there are issues with our packaging and serving info, which we want to fix, and it’s also important to me that I make the best versions of these blends that I can. That means routinely reviewing the formulations based on your feedback, my continued education, and manufacturing constraints. ⁠

We love functional mushrooms, but they’re certainly not required for nutritional balance, and they are very expensive. We don’t want to put our prices up, and we’ll never compromise on our values when it comes to the quality of our ingredients, but that means we need to keep innovating. ⁠

We have an entire new range of functional foods for dogs and cats in the works, and these will definitely include functional mushrooms. So my question is: is removing the mushrooms from our meal balancing blends a dealbreaker for you? What other ingredients would you happily say goodbye to? Or love to see instead? Hit me in the comments 👇🏼 or send me a DM 💌 with your thoughts and ideas. Clare ✌🏼

Do you feed your pets greens? We love greens for their ability to target some of the unavoidable exposure to harmful hea...
01/12/2024

Do you feed your pets greens? We love greens for their ability to target some of the unavoidable exposure to harmful heavy metals that our pet’s experience. The chlorophyl in leafy greens binds to heavy metals, similar to the way heavy metal medications work.

We personally choose to feed farmed salmon for omega 3 and vitamin D, but because salmon is known to contain heavy metals, we add leafy greens to combat the downsides of this decision.⁠

Greens are one of our favourite additions to our pet’s bowls, but it’s important that we process them in a way they can comfortably digest and obtain the benefits from. Cooking, pureeing or grating will help to break down the plant fibres and aide with nutrient absorption. Adding a fat will assist with absorbing fat soluble vitamins (in this case A, E and K), and making sure a source of vitamin C is added to the meal will help with the absorption of non-heme iron in leafy greens.

Try Clare’s favourite greens blend
🥬🍏🥒🥦🌿🌱🥥🫚

1 cup of spinach
1 cup of parsley
1 grated apple
A thumb sized k**b of ginger, finely grated
¼ cup coconut oil, melted
¼ cup warm bone broth to thin

Blanche or briefly steam the chopped spinach and parsley, then add to a food processor with the grated apple and ginger.
Combine the coconut oil and bone broth in a jug and slowly add them to the running food processor.
Spoon into moulds or an ice cube tray and freeze immediately, then store in a freezer bag.

A Black Friday 🏴‍☠️ sale for Spring? Groundbreaking. We’re getting on the bandwagon because we love a good sale coming i...
20/11/2024

A Black Friday 🏴‍☠️ sale for Spring? Groundbreaking.

We’re getting on the bandwagon because we love a good sale coming into Chrissy. Starting NOW we have 20% off everything in our store, including our meal balancing blends, emu oil and BUNDLES!

We are also throwing in a free emu 🦩 oil for all orders over $200AUD, until they run out (we have about 15 left and I’ll update this post if they sell out).

We have really limited stock of everything at the moment and are in the middle of a production run, so this is a really good opportunity to stock up if you regularly use Hunde, just in case they do go out of stock briefly.

We also have free shipping on all Aussie orders over $150 ✈️

The discounts will be applied automatically but you MUST add the emu oil to your cart in order to claim it. Limit of one free emu oil per order over $200AUD.

Sale ends Midnight Sunday 4 November AEDST ⏰

These are some of our favourite whole foods for felines that target the nutrients they need to thrive, plus psyllium, wh...
23/09/2024

These are some of our favourite whole foods for felines that target the nutrients they need to thrive, plus psyllium, which can be particularly helpful for cats who have transitioned from a high fibre processed diet to a fresh diet and experience constipation. To be completely honest we’re a bit lazy so chuck us a comment or leave us an emoji if you’d like to know why we’ve chosen any of these and specifically which nutrients they are rich in 🦪🐟🐓🪶🥚🦆🫀🌾🐇

It’s still such a trip to see Hunde nourishing people’s pets all over the world. I’m so grateful to each and every one o...
07/09/2024

It’s still such a trip to see Hunde nourishing people’s pets all over the world. I’m so grateful to each and every one of you for sharing it with me! Special shoutout to for always making us look so good 😍

Meet the Team: Part IIThere are so many people we could list here who have played a role in making Hunde what it is toda...
30/08/2024

Meet the Team: Part II

There are so many people we could list here who have played a role in making Hunde what it is today, from mentors to suppliers to designers and the whole team behind . But these are the ones who keep the wheels moving at Hunde, who we couldn’t do it without.

manage our customer service inboxes, on “the email” and social media. If you’ve got a query, chances are these guys will be answering it. They try to get back to everyone as quickly as possible, but if they take a little longer than you’d like, keep in mind that this is who you’re getting mad at (jokes, if you don’t hear back feel free to give them a nudge; they’re probably waiting on info from Clare).
Fave Hunde Product: Emu Oil. Their human says “my dogs won’t eat their food unless it has emu oil on it now so I guess I’m a lifetime customer”

’s Ma is the queen of all things operational, from carefully packing your orders, to making sure we actually have enough stock to pack them at all, and enough post bags to pack them into. She’s the bees knees.
Fave Hunde Product: Blu and Beau are purists who love the Essential Blend

Finally, we have Kevin and Beau. Clare’s lifeline; Sunny’s bestie. If you’ve ever run a business (or two) with a toddler, you need a Beau. And every Beau needs a Kevin.
Fave Hunde Product: Kev loves the Wild Blend with his fresh roo 🐈

👀 Afterpay Day Sale on now 👏🏻 20% off the lot! No code needed! Ends Sunday!
14/08/2024

👀 Afterpay Day Sale on now 👏🏻

20% off the lot! No code needed! Ends Sunday!

Get ready to get fresh for less!   🤩
14/08/2024

Get ready to get fresh for less! 🤩

Keep those peepers peeled for our AfterPay Day Sale 👀  !
08/08/2024

Keep those peepers peeled for our AfterPay Day Sale 👀

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Essential Blends for Cats is FINALLY back in stock! Thank you for your patience with this, we hopefully won’t have anoth...
01/08/2024

Essential Blends for Cats is FINALLY back in stock! Thank you for your patience with this, we hopefully won’t have another delay like this but we produce everything ourselves in small batches so sometimes all of the parts don’t align and things take longer than expected! We’ve also topped up Essential Blends for dogs and we will have a new batch of Wild and Vital blend later in the month (they’re not sold out yet but they’re reeeeeeal close). Thank you all so much for your ongoing support 🫶🏼 Clare x

Bawk bawk! It’s baaaaaack…We found some of our original bottles so our 100% pure emu oil is finally back in stock for a ...
23/07/2024

Bawk bawk! It’s baaaaaack…

We found some of our original bottles so our 100% pure emu oil is finally back in stock for a limited run.

We’ve been squirrelling away behind the scenes trying to work out the very best non-greasy, practical and drip-free packaging solution for you, and we’re SO close to locking it down, along with three, THREE, new functional oils.

But we’re impatient, so in the meantime we’ve got our signature bush chook oil back for a limited time only, until they’re gone. Available now! 🦩

🐈‍⬛ CAT BLEND UPDATE!!Thank you for your patience, pu***es. We have had some set backs with some of the ingredients, but...
18/07/2024

🐈‍⬛ CAT BLEND UPDATE!!

Thank you for your patience, pu***es. We have had some set backs with some of the ingredients, but the essential blend for cats should be back online by the end of the month 🤞🏼

We will post as soon as it’s up 😸!

Dogs > People
11/07/2024

Dogs > People

TU LE PERA CON LA PAPAYA? Roughly translates from Minionese to ‘did you know dogs can eat Papaya?’We love papaya for dog...
01/07/2024

TU LE PERA CON LA PAPAYA? Roughly translates from Minionese to ‘did you know dogs can eat Papaya?’

We love papaya for dogs, which is why we chose it to include it in our Essential Blend for dogs. Papaya is rich in vitamins A, C and E, which are immune system supporting, antioxidant vitamins.

Papaya also contains the enzyme papain, which can have a positive impact digestion, particularly in the case of constipation and bloating or gas in dogs.

It’s a yummy, easy to digest choice if you want to add the most bang for your buck with plant matter.

Cheers, Susan 🍻As a small business, your feedback is greatly appreciated and valuable! If you love our stuff and have a ...
25/06/2024

Cheers, Susan 🍻

As a small business, your feedback is greatly appreciated and valuable! If you love our stuff and have a sec to chuck us a review, you will be directly helping us keep doing what we are doing, and we will also be your best friends forever 😘

20% off everything ‘til midnight tonight 🫨!
22/06/2024

20% off everything ‘til midnight tonight 🫨!

We are keeping our mid year sale short, sweet and simple.😧 20% off the lot 🙂‍↔️ No code needed😬 Limited stock 😮‍💨 Ends m...
20/06/2024

We are keeping our mid year sale short, sweet and simple.

😧 20% off the lot
🙂‍↔️ No code needed
😬 Limited stock
😮‍💨 Ends midnight Sunday (or until sold out)

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HUNDE is Clare Kearney and Tex Perkins.

Clare is a pet nutritionist + writer, specialising in canine and feline nutrition. She likes the ocean, words, and lots of honey in her tea. Tex is a kelpie. He loves baths and hates electropop.

Clare studied communications at the University of Melbourne (twice) and small animal nutrition at the Holistic Animal Therapy Organisation. She is a fully insured pet nutritionist who has hosted sold out workshops in canine nutrition, and is even featured as an expert in a real life hardcopy book.

She believes nutrition fundamentally underpins our health and that without fresh, healthy foods we can’t possibly be at our most vibrant. She sees no distinction between us and our animals in this respect.