Cumberland Pet Essentials

01/28/2025

He looks like a totally different dog!

01/28/2025

01/15/2025

‼️TOMORROW ONLY‼️

The Cookeville/Putnam County Animal Shelter is waiving adoption fees for all dogs and puppies already spayed or neutered.

We will continue the Barktic Blast Adoption Event as scheduled.

Don’t miss your chance to bring home a new furry friend! 🐕

01/11/2025

The Forever Dog - "One of the most obscure mushrooms we use on a regular basis in all realms of life is Chaga🍄, in the form of tea🫖.
Chaga is a strange mushroom because its texture is similar to woody tree bark 🪵(so there’s no sautéing this particular gem). Its hard texture lends itself well to brewing supercharged teas and broths.🍵

We add small Chaga chunks to everything that requires a volume of pure water: from bathwater (Dr. Karen Becker) and hummingbird feeders (to reduce bacteria growth, Rodney Habib disscovered) to homemade batches of kombucha and soak water for seeds we are sprouting. We’ve had fresh Chaga tea in the fridge ever since we discovered this brilliant beverage, and its subtle vanilla flavor is delicious iced or hot (for humans) and can be used to supercharge freeze-dried or dehydrated dog food, in place of reconstituting these foods with plain water.

Chaga’s medicinal properties make it a calming paw rinse for removing road salt in the winter and soothing hot spots in the summer (soak a cotton ball with cooled Chaga tea and apply directly to the sore)."

01/10/2025

We will be closed again tomorrow, Saturday January 11th, due to the snow.
❄️ Be safe out there! ❄️
We will be open on Monday the 13th!

01/08/2025

We are well stocked for you before the storm hits with another delivery arriving tomorrow morning. Come on and stock up!
Stay safe!

01/07/2025

35% off packaged Christmas dog cookies!!

01/01/2025

We are so thankful! We owe our success to all of you who have supported and loved us through the years. We look forward to many more years with you!
Happy New Year!!

12/30/2024

An update on the bird flu that was found in a bag of cat food. According to Northwest Naturals, the brand in question, there was only one bag of food that tested positive for the virus. That was the bag that came from the cat owners home.
Here is part of the Company’s update today.
“It is important to note that the only bag of food tested so far came from an open bag found at the home of the deceased cat. Unfortunately, due to the current widespread concerns surrounding Avian Influenza, the news of this one cat’s passing, linked to raw food, spread quickly. These two lots of food, produced from the same batch, have been on the market for over five months. To date, there have been no other reports of sick or deceased pets after consuming any Northwest Naturals products.”

12/28/2024

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We prioritize safety and are committed to keeping Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) out of our operations. Our suppliers undergo rigourous screening, testing, and full collaberation with partners and agencies to ensure procedures are in place for disease control.

12/28/2024

We will be posting statements from the pet food companies that we carry as they are made available. I will post them here for you to see and to see what procedures and precautions they have always taken to ensure food safety. We will keep you posted as we learn more.

12/28/2024

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12/28/2024

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To say that "avian influenza is on the rise" or to assume that avian influenza is a new and scary disease is irresponsible at best. Quite simply, the reason that we are seeing it come up now and haven't in previous years to the degree that we are seeing now is because it is being tested for by FDA now, where before it was handled by USDA and poultry growers. To speak as though we all need to button up our standards now fully assumes that the standards of raw pet food manufacturers are where the problem stems from. We say constantly that one cannot get healthy food from sick animals - what you get from sick animals is sick food. Solutions Pet Products has been defending our foods and consumers from viruses, pathogens, contaminants, etc ever since we ran our very first production batch.

SOURCING: Like most things regarding health, sourcing is of utmost importance regarding, not just AI, but all viruses and pathogens. Starting from a base of healthy birds, who are not exposed to contaminated birds, eliminates the risk completely before the birds even get to our facility. Clean sourcing that encourages a robust immune system is one of the main benefits of regenerative farming.

FERMENTATION: Besides the incredibly effective food safety step of keeping our foods and raw materials frozen throughout the entire manufacturing process (none of our ingredients ever thaw until the consumer thaws them out at home), fermentation has been shown to effectively neutralize viruses and pathogens through “competitive inhibition”. The strength of our food is in its potent probiotic culture that deactivates harmful entities, including viruses.

EXCLUSIVITY: It is no surprise that factory farmed animals are diseased and are creating a culture of disease. That is why we chose to come out of the gate with the cleanest possible sourcing and the highest quality manufacturing standard - we saw this coming. Our food isn’t co-packed and our ingredients are stored in our own private cold storage facility. Nothing that we haven’t vetted comes in contact with our food at any stage in the process.

HANDLING: It seems as though the FDA warnings regarding avian influenza in raw food are based, if we assume honorable intent, on an abundance of caution rather than on any determinable data. To date, there have not been any robust or scientifically valid studies showing that animals can contract AI from eating raw meat that has been properly handled - instances studied involve either direct contact with contaminated birds or improperly handled raw meat. It is easy to lose perspective - if a pet gets sick or dies, we rush to blame something tangible, often food, before considering other factors, such as how that food was handled, the environment that it was kept in or served in, and how the affected pet lived or was treated aside from their diet.

People can throw around their fancy words like "biosecurity" all they like, speaking as though it is a new concept. At the end of the day, we are not going to change anything that we are doing, because we have been doing what is needed to be done to create safe, clean food from the very beginning. Solutions for pets and solutions for the planet are one in the same.

We are, as we always have been, committed to clean, raw, earth honoring foods. As we usher in a New Year, that conviction remains stronger than ever. Thank you all for your support and your passion and we are excited to move forward in consistency and health ❤️

12/28/2024

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12/28/2024

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At smallbatch, the wellbeing of you and your pets is our highest priority. As concerns about avian influenza grow, we want to highlight the steps we’ve taken for nearly 20 years to deliver safe, high-quality raw food you can feel confident about.

First, we work directly with farms that take food quality and food safety extremely serious. Smallbatch’s poultry suppliers are some of the most respected family-owned and operated farms in the US, that take impeccable care of their flocks and have best-in-class prevention strategies from flock to harvest.

Our poultry is never sourced from factory farms, or our co-manufacturers and we never use mechanically separated meats, which can contain high pathogen loads. Since 2005, we’ve cultivated long-standing relationships with our suppliers and know that they are taking every precaution to ensure our poultry is safe.

Additionally, all of the humanely raised and harvested meat we source is human grade and regularly inspected by the USDA. All flocks are tested for the avian flu before harvesting and cannot be harvested if that test does not come back as negative.

We will continue to monitor developments in this evolving situation and always strive to take every precaution and safety measure readily available to us.