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Keeping pets awesome, inside and out! Established 2000. At Ruff Haus, we believe every dog and cat deserves the most healthy and natural diet possible!
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That's why, for the last 20 years we have chosen to carry trusted brands that have our furry friends best interest in mind! For a complete list of all the foods we carry, please visit our website at www.ruffhauspets.com. We look forward to your visit!

09/05/2024

Did you know that Marble has two Creative Writing degrees? So I’ll give you one guess who picked out this month’s theme. You shouldn’t need another hint. But what you do need is this cute literary dog mug!! And your dog needs everything else! Okay I’m using “need” very loosely, but they call it creative writing for a reason, right? Okay, okay, I’ll just explain what’s in here for your dog, starting with the elephant in the room; the stinky cod treats. Fish is rich in omega-3s which support brain health and properties of blueberries do the same. So the Icelandic+ treats probably sound gross but your dog will like them and their health will thank you. The other treats are significantly less stinky (and a lot quicker) but still tasty for your pup and still loaded with goodies and antioxidants to support brain & eye health. (And let’s be honest, some pups need some help in the brains department). The newspaper toy isn’t something we expect them to read, but maybe they’ll surprise us. At the very least, the squeaker and rope will keep them entertained while you read!

p.s. Bonus points if you know what book cover this poster is parodying!

p.p.s. The points don’t mean anything, but I’ll get satisfaction if you recognize it.

09/05/2024

What ebook is Rocky reading on the iPad? Wrong answers only.

09/05/2024

November is National Novel Writing Month! “But Marble,” you say, “it’s only September.” Yeah, well, November’s Ruff Box theme is always determined by that big feast holiday, so we’re celebrating NaNoWriMo early. It’s not like your cat is participating anyway, right? So let me have this one thing!!!! Thank you. With that straw man argument out of the way, let me preach eloquent about this box of stuff: there’s a literary quote cat mug for you because odds are your cat won’t like every single thing in the box (do they ever) so at least there’s something you’ll like in it. There’s wet food and treats that will stroke your smarty cat’s ego because they’re smartly named and the antioxidants in the Momentum treats support brain and eye power. And because your cat is more of a visual learner than a listener, the catnip toys are a Cat-Study on art. At the very least, these things (and the box & tissue paper) will keep your feline friend busy while you take a crack at the lengthy TBR stack on your shelf.

p.s. Bonus points if you know what novel cover this poster is parodying.

p.p.s.: the points don’t mean anything. but I’ll feel accomplished if you recognize it.

08/30/2024

Just your annual Rocky the Riveter post to remind you the Haus will be CLOSED Monday, September 2nd in honor of Labor Day! So get your pet food this weekend because after 5pm Sunday, you’ll have to wait until 11am Tuesday to get in the Haus for your treats. Please inform your dogs as well, I know a day without in-Haus treats during walks will be a massive tragedy, but our staff is sooooo tired from all the petting and scritching we do that we need the day 🥵🥵🥵 . We’ll still have treats Tuesday, September 3rd though so the treat crawl can resume then :)

08/26/2024

Everyone say “Welcome Back, West Paw!” After a brief hiatus from the Haus, we had enough requests for people looking for their Qwizl and Toppl fix that we brought them back, along with some fresh & new toys! So the lesson for today is that if you’re (politely) persistent enough with your requests for stuff, we’ll probably acquiesce*.

(*For legal reasons, this is a joke.)

Get your paws on some West Paw! Available in-store and/or online for pickup! Get toys in Limited Edition Lavender while they last!

08/05/2024

Bring the high seas to your looting, thieving feline brigand with the Purritime Ruff Box (no water required)! This box brings the Caribbean to your Purringbbean with fishy treats and food, plus a fish shaped lick mat (to swab the deck with their tongues, as it were) and some Margaritaville catnip toys!! Your cat is a pirate in their own rite, so what they make of this box is their own; any rules imposed are theirs to break as they see fit—though the box itself would make an awfully good ship. . .

08/05/2024

Hoist the colors!!

08/05/2024

It’s Rrrrrrrrruff Box o’clock!!!! The August Ruff Box is taking your pup to the tides (& Margaritaville) with fishy treats and pirate toys—plus a bite sized Kraken for your pup to thrash. No need to swab the p**p deck, this box can sail to your home as-is!

07/05/2024

BOY HOWDY This box is as country as we could get it in the city, and ain’t nothing more that could make it more country unless you’ve got a cattle dog in which case it’s better than perfect. We brought the BBQ to You(r dog) with a Bacon Cheeseburger no-hide, plus a bag of jerky that makes a great trail snack. The Churro Stick is water buffalo flavored, which your dog will love. And it will give them plenty of energy to tug, chew, fetch, herd(?), and wrastle the TWO toys! The small dog box comes with the Territory Natural Leather Pig and the Worthy Dog Wild Wild West Boot. The large dog box has a natural leather tug toy and a buffalo plush squeaker toy, both from Tall Tails. All you’ll need to complete the box is a cowboy hat. And maybe a horse. But we can’t help you there.

07/05/2024

“Yee-Haw, amirite fellas?” -Rocky, probably.

07/05/2024

Get ya’ll’s cowboy hats on cause it’s time to boot scootin boogie on over to the Haus to get the July Ruff Box! The Yee-Paw cat edition box comes with TWO country pun stickers, three wet foods, four toys, and some catnip buds! Cause there ain’t nothing like a little ‘nip while you’re on the trail.

CAUTION: your cat may develop a southern accent upon receiving this box.

07/03/2024

Rocky can’t read but if he could, he wouldn’t mind being in the “Cry Baby Box” because it will be true tomorrow. Things will be exploding in the sky all over the city and our furry friends have no idea why or how—in fact, they probably won’t even see anything, they’ll only hear it. So who can blame them for being stressed and needing some extra security measures? If you’re fresh out of Cry Baby Boxes, try getting some melatonin calming chews and/or upping your pets’ CBD dose just for the next day or so. And don’t forget to make sure all chip and tag information is up to date, just in case the worst happens! We’ll get through these yearly sky explosions together!

*Cry Baby Box and Cry Baby Not For Sale*

07/01/2024

Ruff Haus will be CLOSED Thursday, July 4th. So get your CBD, your melatonin calming aids, and any “stay-out-of-my-way-while-I’m-grilling” treats and/or toys by July 3rd!

Regular Hours Resume July 5th at 11am

06/06/2024

What do you mean this doesn’t look like a Pride Box? Would you change your mind if you knew that the fish kicker toy is a RAINBOW Trout? Actually, that doesn’t matter because I already made the boxes and I’m not switching anything out. I tried very hard to not make this Pride Ruff Box just a bunch of rainbow things because I’m sure it gets old this time of year. And cats can’t really appreciate it fully anyway, since they can only see shades of blue, yellow, and gray. So this is stuff they will appreciate. Well, in theory they will. They’ll at least like the fish kicker because it has catnip. And if nothing else, they’ll like the box. I’m not doing a very good job of selling this, am I? But they’re cats so. . . they decide everything, so what’s the point? They’re tired of me yapping and just want to get at the treats anyway. So come grab a Ruff Box even if its just for the box it comes in!!!*

*an empty Ruff Box costs the same as a full Ruff Box so you might as well take all the stuff inside too.

06/06/2024

Elton John actually wrote Rocket Man initially to be “Rocky Cat” but audiences didn’t relate to a song about a cat that wouldn’t be born for 48 more years. :/

06/06/2024

A business doing something Pride related during Pride month? Groundbreaking!!! But in our defense we do a themed box every month and of course we’re going to do a Pride Ruff Box. . . that’s a no brainer. We tried not to make it look like a Rainbow threw up in the box. The peacock toy is as close as we got to that and I’ve wanted it in this box since last year so no apologies for the neon rainbow feathers 😈 Everything else is either a pride-adjacent pun (that maybe only I find funny) or loosely color-coded. Treats, Food, and even some Chill Out chews so you can go to Drag Brunch without worrying about a stressed pup. Plus, the Pride Edition of the Dog Ruff Box is ONE SIZE!! So no more worrying about which size to get—they’re all the same :)

06/03/2024

It’s been *checks notes* nearly 2 years since I took over Haus Marketing, and I never put a face to the captions. Well. . . here it is: My Face!! (I’m the one that’s NOT a cat.) I’m Marble! You probably recognize me. But if you don’t, that’s okay too, my face isn’t the important part of what I do—it’s the silly images and the words that go with them. Rocky’s face is more important than mine anyway, let’s be real.

What I Do @ the Haus: take pictures. A lot. Mostly of the cat. But products too. I also occasionally post them & write the newsletters. The Ruff Box is my baby that I co-parent with the manager, Tonya. I make all the digital marketing images (including the funny cat photoshops) but NOT the beautiful chalkboard art (my coworker Ivan gets complete credit for that). Finally, I manage the website (as best I can without throwing my computer into the River).

What I Do When Not @ the Haus: Read. Write. Take pictures of my own cats. I have a BFA & MFA in Creative Writing so it’s a wonder how I ended up in pet nutrition, but as is the story with a lot of us—once I was in, I was in for life.

Well, I’m not sure what else anyone even wants to know about me—feel free to shoot a message and I’ll answer what I can!

But now there’s officially a face behind all the “i”s and the collective “we”s. And you know who to complain to if there’s not been enough Rocky content.

05/21/2024

The Haus will be closed Monday 5/27!! Normal hours resume Tuesday 5/28.

05/15/2024

Commander of the Cat Corner

05/05/2024

Welcome to the Ruff Box Drive-In, Dog Edition (no car required; in fact—cars are discouraged. Only toy cars or cars driven by dogs please)! Your pups will be ready to sit in front of the silver screen with you with their popcorn—in treat AND burrow toy form—and other drive-in movie staples, including vehicle pun wet food! As always, this box comes in small or large, which determines the size of the Huxley & Kent Sour Scratch Pups toy, everything else is identical! So while you may not be able to bring your pup to the movie theater (unless it’s a drive-in, I suppose), but you can bring the theater experience to your pup!

As a bonus, for every Ruff Box Dog purchase this month, you’re automatically entered to win a custom Retro Ruff Haus Van toy!!

05/05/2024

Rockwell, tragic beauty.

05/05/2024

Welcome to the Ruff Box Drive-In (no car required! in fact—cars are discouraged! Do not bring your car into the Haus. Unless it is driven here by your cat. They do what they want & there’s no telling them otherwise)! All jokes aside, this box is silver screen ready with vehicle-pun wet food, “kitty popcorn” treats, and a bunch of movie snack toys (including some kitty joints which may have the opposite affect on the movie watching sitting still mood). You can’t bring your cat to the movies (unless it’s a drive in, I suppose), but you sure can bring the movies to your cat!!!

05/04/2024

Rocky looooooves his cat grass. Maybe a bit TOO much. But don’t worry, there’s still some starter kits left for you to get some for your cat too!!

04/19/2024

Raw-curious? Come by the Haus tomorrow and get Raw-ducated with Raw Bistro!

04/16/2024

Perfecting his Blue Steel.

04/05/2024

Listen. The Earth can be Big & Scary and our kitties are just teeny tiny wittle babies that don’t like wearing harnesses much so sometimes they can’t go outside with us. And yeah this cup of grass cannot compare to a big field in the mountains or whatever, but your cats CAN eat this grass at least! They can also eat the Copi cat treats (helping clean our river of an invasive species, what altruistic angels they are) and catnip treats BOTH made locally, as well as the lower-carbon-emissions wet food (though we don’t expect them to care about that as much). Plus they can gnaw on some 100% all natural wool toys. And maybe gnaw on you too when you try to bathe them with the hypoallergenic shampoo. Or you can use it on yourself, that works too. Their world may be narrowed to the distance between their mouth and their bowl, but we can help out the earth by choosing more sustainable products for them to respectively devour/destroy. After all, it’s their planet too! 🌎🐱🐈🐈‍⬛🌱🍃

04/05/2024

brb watching reruns of Big Cat Diary (1996-2009) on Animal Planet all April

04/05/2024

It’s Earth Day this month so we’re highlighting our especially Earth-conscious brands and products! Including two bags of treats made in our very own Chicago, a lower-carbon-emissions wet food, some plant based wipes, a hypoallergenic all natural shampoo, and a fan fave 100% natural wool tug & chew toy! We can’t teach our pups about sustainability, but we can help them enjoy products with sustainable practices. After all, it’s their planet too :) 🌎🐶🐕🐩🦮🐕‍🦺🐾🍃🌱

03/27/2024

This post is coming a whole lot sooner than any of us could have imagined, but it is with a broken heart that we let you know of the passing of our beloved Spot. While we are still coming to grips with this sudden and tremendous loss, we take comfort in knowing we were with him in his final moments as he passed quickly and painlessly at the emergency vet. We are so grateful to MedVet for letting so many of Spot’s Ruff Haus family gather around him and give him a loving goodbye, even if it was much, much sooner than we’d hoped for.

Spot had an amazing 14 years of life, better than most cats ever get. He was loved and doted on by a whole neighborhood. He was the King of Lincoln Square and his subjects paid their respects to him daily. No other cat could possibly have been pet as many times by so many different people as Spot was. If you weren’t a cat person when you met Spot, you’d leave him being a Spot person; a “I don’t like cats, but I do like Spot” person.

It is easy to imagine the longest life for the animals who touch your soul the way Spot did, especially when they are as taken care of as he was, but sometimes the unimaginable is what happens. And Spot was an unimaginable cat. He was the type of cat that is hard to describe. He was a centuries-old human-like soul crammed into the rumbling, toothless, chatty body of Chicago’s Best Cat. And even as his body passes, his soul lives on in how many lives he touched while he lived at Ruff Haus. He will be dearly missed and the pain of his passing will echo for a long time, but the love we have for him is forever.

Thank you to those of you who loved on Spot, no matter how briefly or how long ago, we know he cherished all those moments. Thank you in advance to those of you stopping by the Haus in the near future for giving us and Rocky an extra dose of patience as we mourn. Finally, thank you to Spot. For everything. We wish we could’ve had more time to love you and be loved by you, but we’re so grateful for the time we did have. We love you so much, Spotty. We’ll look for you in the stars.

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Tuesday	11am - 8pm
Wednesday	11am - 8pm
Thursday	11am - 8pm
Friday	11am - 8pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

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Spot is keeping entertained with his new Jacques Le Sock that came in today's shipment From The Field!!

Friday play time!

Don't whisper to Spot when he sleeps.

This treat would have lasted less than a minute but with the Can Toy it lasted nearly 5 minutes. Depending on the treat this toy can go the distance. Dogs love it!

With the current dog flu we don't recommend letting your dog drink from communal water sources. Keeping your dog (and yourself) hydrated couldn't be easier with the Olly Bottle from OllyDog!

A bit of a frolic and a snack.

Kiwi made it and tails are waggin' with One Tail at a Time

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Welcome To The Ruff Haus.

Who are we? We are a community of people and their pets who share a common belief in treating our furry companions as family! Established in 2000, we have been serving Chicago's pets for over a decade. Here at Ruff Haus, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of pet nutrition. Since we have opened, quite a bit has changed in the world of pet food. What hasn't changed is our dedication to quality and rigorous vetting process for the foods that we carry. Whether you're looking for a healthy food option, top notch treat, or a unique leash & collar set, Ruff Haus has you covered! If you're walking through the neighborhood feel free to stop in for a fresh water break or to say hello to our Haus cats Spot and Cisco! We invite you to see how Ruff Haus Pets really does keep pets awesome, inside and out! We look forward to your visit!