Bear's Bites

Holidays meals are BACK!

CYBER MONDAY is here! Head on over to bearsbites.net and spoil your pups with 25% off your order. We do have local pickup now. The hours are Wed - Friday 11-4 and Saturday 11-3. You will receive an email when your order is ready for pickup. We do offer shipping all over the USA.

Some fun stuff happening at the Boutique 😊

I am so thankful for Brady at My Dog's Bakery, Daycare & Grooming for getting my Boo in for a spa day. If you are looking for an amazing groomer head over to My Dog’s Bakery. I love that you can make an appointment with a specific groomer and they are only grooming your pup at the time of their appointment. Check out Brady or Erin, both are amazing! Bear ran into My Dogs Bakery and as you all know that is not normal behavior. This is a big deal for a place to be a safe space for Bear. They also make Bear’s favorite cookies there. Check out the s’mores cookies 🍪

Today is the day, it is the Riverfront Thanksgiving Market! I cannot wait to see all of your smiling faces. Since it is the Thanksgiving market we are having a sale on all TURKEY chews. Our turkey necks and our turkey wings will be 23% off today! You also can't forget your pups Thanksgiving dinner. We will have lots of them and I brought extra but I would get there early because these always sell out no matter how many I bring. Also if you come and buy treats this morning you will get a $5 coupon to the Bear's Bites Boutique to use whenever you want to come see us!

Happy Halloween - SHOW US YOUR PETS IN COSTUME

I would love to get the Bear's Bites Boutique & Education Center open on Nov 2nd but we have a small problem. I need an employee to work events. Please apply at https://www.indeed.com/job/holiday-event-sales-associate-d1c827e1da10fa77 I am currently scheduled to be at events every single weekend until the week before Christmas so in order to open the boutique I need someone to go to the off site events, someone to run the boutique and me to be in the back of the shop making treats. If I can't find someone to go to events and setup for Bear's Bites then I won't be able to open the boutique before Christmas because I will be at the events which takes time out of the shop making treats. If I have no treats, we have no boutique. This also means I can't be in the boutique at any time to help when we get busy. Hiring has by far been the hardest part of owning a business. I wish I had better news for you guys but I need help and it is extremely hard to find it. I searched all summer long to find someone to help with markets and couldn't find anyone that could do it. I will keep everyone updated on if I find help or not. Fingers crossed 😀

Happy National Dog Day! Show us your pups and let us help you spoil them! After you show us your pups head over to bearsbites.net and spend $20 and get a free 3oz bag of treats. No code needed.

What I feed for diarrhea for my Bear as an animal nutritionist.

This week started off a little weird, Mr Bear had diarrhea. I get asked a lot what I feed for diarrhea. Many people tell me they are told by their pet professional to give chicken and rice but rice can cause inflammation so the last thing you want to give is rice when your pup already isn’t feeling good. The other option is to rush them to the vet and get metronidazole for fast results. I am not anti medication but more diarrhea doesn’t need 10 days worth of medication. I also am not a fan because that is going to destroy the gut and that isn’t going to help either. Feeding a whole natural diet is a good place to start and if diarrhea hits then go with boiled turkey and pumpkin and either no treats or a whitefish like cod is a good treat. We were out of town so I had to use what I could find at the local small town Walmart.

Production is back up and running. It has been a long 2 weeks without production and I have gotten so behind on orders. Yesterday I got production back up and running. Please be patient with me while I catch up on orders. All the freeze dryers have food in them and all the dehydrators have treats in them. All orders will be filled by the end of the week. If you ordered for pickup our website did not update the location for pickup so I will email you and ask if you would like to pickup in Pekin or if you would like to have your order shipped. I will ship these orders for free since it is my mistake. Thank you so much for your patience this has been a big adventure and things have not gone as planned. I am getting use to that lol. You guys are amazing and we would not be such an amazing business without you..