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01/28/2025

Reckless regulatory marketing stokes fear of raw pet food.

01/21/2025

🐾✨ Training Treat Spotlight! ✨🐾

This Train Your Dog Month, we’re featuring Yak9's Cheese Bites—the ultimate training treat for your pup! These soft, flavorful bites aren’t just delicious; they’re packed with ingredients that support your dog's overall health. 🐶💪

🌟 Why We Love Yak9’s Cheese Bites:
✔️ Soft texture, perfect for training sessions
✔️ Packed with health-boosting flavors
✔️ Made with premium ingredients to keep your pup happy and healthy

💛 Flavors & Benefits:
🍂 Pumpkin, Turmeric & Coconut: Aids digestive health and supports a healthy immune system.
🍓 Strawberry, Blueberry & Banana: Packed with antioxidants and vitamins for overall vitality and strong immunity.
💚 Spirulina, Mint & Flaxseed: Supports healthy skin and coat, freshens breath, and provides Omega-3s for joint health.
🍎 Apple, Cinnamon & Honey: Boosts energy, promotes healthy digestion, and adds a natural sweetness your pup will love.

✨ Healthy treats = happy dogs! Yak9’s Cheese Bites are a great way to reward your furry friend while supporting their well-being.

📍 Stop by today to grab a bag of these nutritious and delicious training treats!

01/20/2025

🧀 Happy National Cheese Lovers Day! 🧀

Today, we’re celebrating with a unique and healthy twist—Solutions Raw Goat Cheese DOGh! 🐾 This ancient Persian soft-cheese recipe, also known as "Doogh," has been thoughtfully modified just for dogs, blending tradition with wellness.

✨ Why Choose DOGh for Your Dog?
Not only is this cheese delicious, but it’s also packed with incredible ingredients to support a healthy digestive system:

🌿 Wild Harvested Yucca Schidigera – Supports gut health
🍒 Cranberries – Rich in antioxidants
🌼 Chamomile – Promotes calm and digestion
🌱 Dandelion Root – A natural detoxifier
🥒 Zucchini – Nutrient-packed and hydrating
🌟 Diatomaceous Earth – Helps with digestive balance
Solutions cheese as reduced moisture content to create the perfect cheese treat for your pup while keeping it wholesome and functional.

Let your dog join the cheesy celebration while reaping the benefits of these carefully chosen ingredients. 🧀🐕

01/18/2025

🎉 Today's Training Treat Highlight! 🎉

Introducing one of our newest products from Polka Dog – the perfect training treat for your furry friends! 🐾

✨ Why You'll Love It:

🐶 Soft & Chewy – ideal for puppies and older dogs.
🏆 Perfectly Sized for treating and training sessions.
🥩 Made with Beef Raised on US Farms for quality you can trust.
🛠 Handmade & Slowly Dehydrated in Boston, MA, for that extra touch of care.
Whether you're teaching new tricks or just rewarding good behavior, these treats are a delicious and nutritious choice for every dog! 🐕💛

01/17/2025

🐾✨ Training Treat Spotlight! ✨🐾

For Train Your Dog Month, we’re proud to feature another fantastic local brand: Winnie Lou! These single-ingredient, high-reward treats are perfect for training sessions that keep your pup focused and eager to learn.

🌟 Why We Love Winnie Lou Treats:
✔️ Locally made with care 🏔️
✔️ Single-ingredient for a clean, wholesome snack
✔️ High-reward, making them perfect for training success

Whether you're teaching new tricks or reinforcing good behavior, these treats are sure to make tails wag. 🐶💕

📍 Swing by today and support local while treating your furry friend to the best in training rewards!

01/16/2025

🌟 New Product from RAWZ! 🌟

We’re thrilled to introduce RAWZ Shredded 5.5 oz Cans – the ultimate choice for your pet's nutrition! 🐾

✨ Why Choose RAWZ Shredded?

✅ Minimally Processed for maximum nutrition.
🚫 No Artificial Binders or Gums – because your pet deserves only the best.
❌ No Xanthan Gum
❌ No Guar Gum
❌ No Cassia/Locust Bean
❌ No Agar Agar
❌ No Carrageenan
❌ No Potato Starch
🐓 No Antibiotics Added – just pure, high-quality protein your pet will love.
RAWZ Shredded is crafted with care to deliver the cleanest, most natural nutrition possible – no shortcuts, no compromises. Give your pet the gift of real, wholesome food! 🐕🐾

01/15/2025

🐾✨ Training Treat Spotlight! ✨🐾

This Train Your Dog Month, we’re shining the spotlight on Boulder Dog Bits—your new go-to training treat! These locally-made, single-ingredient treats are perfect for keeping your pup motivated during training sessions.

🌟 Why We Love Boulder Dog Bits:
✔️ Made locally with love 💛
✔️ Single-ingredient for a clean, healthy treat
✔️ Small enough to fit in your pocket or training pouch—perfect for on-the-go training!

🍖 Available Flavors:
🐟 Salmon
🐓 Chicken
🦃 Turkey
🐂 Bison (not pictured)

Treat your pup to these delicious, nutritious bites and make training a breeze. Support local, train happy, and keep those tails wagging! 🐕🎉

📍 Stop by today to grab a bag of Boulder Dog Bits and see why we’re obsessed!

01/15/2025

01/14/2025

🐾New Product Alert! 🐾

We’re thrilled to introduce Oma's Pride Ground Beef Green Tripe – a premium, finely ground, unbleached green beef tripe made with love for your pets! 🌿🐕

✨ Why You’ll Love It:

🐄 Sourced from Wisconsin-raised, grass-fed cattle.
🌱 Naturally occurring digestive enzymes, probiotics, and essential amino acids for optimal digestion & immune support.
💪 Promotes strong muscles and supports healthy skin & coat with fatty acids.
🍽 100% natural – no preservatives, additives, or flavorings.
❤️ Great for pets with seasonal allergies or digestive issues like diarrhea & constipation.
🐾 Made in small batches in the USA for quality you can trust.
What’s the deal with tripe?
Unbleached green tripe retains all its natural nutrients, helping your pet maintain a healthy digestion, vibrant energy, and overall wellness.

📢 Note: This product has a strong natural odor – pets love it, humans… maybe not as much! 😉

Give your furry friend the best with Oma’s Pride Ground Beef Green Tripe. 🐕✨ Because they deserve nothing but the best!

01/13/2025

We are so excited to announce that we are officially signed up with Astro Loyalty. This is huge for us and something we have been working toward for over a year - getting to the point where we can give back to the people who support us the most has been very high on our priorities list. Astro makes it so easy for retailers to track frequent buyer purchases and redemptions and we couldn't be happier to partner with them to get this off the ground.

BUY 12 GET ONE FREE applies to all frozen foods, in all sizes. Available at participating retailers. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH ❤️

01/13/2025

🐾✨ Training Treat Spotlight! ✨🐾

January is Train Your Dog Month, and what better way to motivate your pup than with our featured training treats—Momentum Training Bites!

🌟 Why We Love Them:
✔️ Low-calorie, perfect for training sessions
✔️ Single-ingredient, healthy, and delicious
✔️ Available in flavors your pup will adore: Turkey, Chicken, Beef, and Pork

🎉 Special Bonus: These treats are part of Astro's Frequent Buyer Program! For every 10 bags you purchase, you’ll get the 11th bag FREE!

Stock up and make training sessions fun, rewarding, and oh-so-tasty for your furry friend. 🐶💕

📍 Visit us today to grab your bags of Momentum Training Bites and let the training begin!

01/11/2025

🎉 Train Your Dog Month Highlight: 🐾

Our first spotlight goes to Shepherd Boy Farms —makers of freeze-dried, single-ingredient treats that are paw-sitively perfect for high-reward training sessions! 🐶✨

Not only are these treats incredibly tasty, but they’re also natural and wholesome—making them a win for both you and your pup. 🦴💙

Give them a try and see your dog’s tail wag with joy! Stay tuned for more of our favorite training tips and products this month.
PS. Cats love them too!

01/11/2025

Someone recently told us that "fat has little to no nutritional value" so reposting this feels appropriate.

Since Ancel Keys first proposed that replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat could reduce the rate of cardiovascular disease, fat in general has been under constant fire, but particularly fat from animal sources, like butter, cream, tallow, lard, etc. Thankfully, as more and more evidence is collected and brought to light, it has become increasingly clear that the idea that "fat is bad for you" is utterly preposterous and has led to many catastrophic health movements since it was first introduced.

To be clear: there are many, many types of toxic fats. Fats from seed oils or fats that have been oxidized or fats that are rancid are all devastating to health in various ways. These types of fats have been shown to disrupt many biological functions, including mental health, metabolic health, muscle and organ health, energy levels, and heart health. It has been shown time and time again that diets that limit saturated fat and fats from animal sources are not conducive to long term health.

Solutions honors the relationships between fat and the rest of the body and celebrates foods that allow the body to function in its most optimal way - animal fats in their pure forms. Our raw fermented dog food diets maintain an optimal 1:1 fat to protein ratio, our dairy is always full fat. The body utilizes the energy from these diets to support every other bodily function.

ENERGY: energy has to come from something - the reason why animals eat is so that their bodies can “refuel” depleted aspects of themselves and power the enormous energy requirements of the brain. “Calories” are the measure of energy that food can provide. Fat is the most energy dense nutrient, being two times as energy dense as protein and carbohydrates.

CELLULAR HEALTH: Fats - water insoluble biological molecules known as “lipids” - are the primary components of cell membranes. By limiting fat consumption or by providing rancid or otherwise damaged fats, we limit the body’s ability to maintain cellular health because the body simply won’t have the resources necessary to repair or replace damaged cells.

PROTEIN UTILITY: diets that are deficient in fats force the body to use either carbohydrates or protein for energy. The process by which the body converts protein to energy creates nitrogen in the body, leading to inevitable kidney damage, and also can lead to muscle wasting - so much protein must be used for minimal energy gain that there is very little left to dedicate to protein’s actual purpose - muscle and organ regeneration. By balancing fat and protein, we allow the body to use fat for energy, leaving protein able to function as it is supposed to.

HORMONE PRODUCTION: if reproductive organs are damaged or in other ways insufficient, the body depends on fat to produce various hormones in the body. Without a proper balancing of various types of fat cells, dogs and cats that are spayed or neutered will have severe hormonal imbalances because two major sources of hormone production have been severely limited.

Interestingly, AAFCO, in their wisdom (🙄), has established minimums for lineoleic acid, an Omega 6 fatty acid that has been heralded as one of the major contributors to chronic disease in the western world, but has not established minimums for healthy polyunsaturated fats like DHA and EPA. This leads to diets that are enormously overbalanced with Omega 6, which can cause chronic inflammation and contribute to other disease states. Its high time that the antiquated view of fat is abolished.

01/10/2025

🌿🐾 Not all plants are created equal—some can be harmful (even deadly) to your furry friends! Before adding greenery to your home, make sure to research whether they’re toxic or pet-safe. Keep your pets safe and your plants thriving! 🐶🐱

01/09/2025

🐾 Did You Know? January is National Train Your Dog Month! 🐾

We’re here to help you and your furry friends make the most of it! 🎉 Check out our list of Hero's-approved trusted trainers to kick-start your pup’s journey to being their best self.

✨ Plus, stay tuned for more posts this month featuring our favorite training treats and supplies—perfect for rewarding good behavior and making training a breeze.

Let’s make this month a pawsome one! 🐶💙

01/09/2025

🐾🎉 Celebrate National Milk Day with us at Hero's Pets! 🐾🎉

Bring your furry friends for a tail-wagging good time at our Doggie Social this Saturday, January 11th from 10am - 6pm! 🐶💙 We'll be handing out delicious goat milk treats packed with amazing benefits:

✨ Promotes Healthy Digestion
✨ Supports Skin & Coat Health
✨ Rich in Vitamins & Nutrients
✨ Easily Digestible for Sensitive Stomachs

Come on down and let your pets enjoy some tasty treats while you learn more about why raw goat milk is a game-changer for their health! 🐕🐾

Don’t miss out on the fun and treats! See you there! 🐾

01/09/2025

We just restocked Smack at Hero's! Ask us about how this food can fit into your active dog's food regimen or can be fed as an everyday meal!

01/08/2025

🌿🐾 Celebrate National CBD Month with Your Furry Friends! 🐾🌿

January is National CBD Month, the perfect time to explore how CBD can improve the lives of our beloved pets! 🐶💚

More research needs to be done on CBD but we see so many of the dogs and cats that we help benefit from these products. Currently, it is something we discuss in regard to seizures, anxiety, cancer, and pain management. Broader studies have shown benefits such as :

✨ Promotes relaxation: Helps manage anxiety, stress, and separation issues.
✨ Supports joint health and mobility: Relieves stiffness and discomfort for aging or arthritic dogs.
✨ Manages pain and inflammation: Provides natural relief for chronic conditions or post-surgery recovery.
✨ Supports dogs with cancer: Helps manage pain, inflammation, and appetite loss while improving quality of life.
✨ Eases seizures and epilepsy: A natural aid to reduce the frequency and severity of seizures.
✨ Balances overall wellness: Supports immune health, mood regulation, and overall vitality.

Trusted CBD Brands for Your Pets:
✔️ Anderson’s Natural Pet Food
✔️ Suzie’s CBD Treats
✔️ CBD Dog Health

CBD can be a game-changer for pets facing serious health challenges, providing comfort and relief while enhancing their quality of life. 💚🐾

💬 Have questions or success stories about CBD for your dog? Share them below—we’d love to hear from you or answer any questions you may have!