Mattie the Adventurous

Mattie  is a semi-frequent visitor to Fish & Bone.  He’s quite courageous don’t you think?  To brave all the city sounds and smells on his walkabout (or roll-about, or carry-about)?  And  not to mention,  the dogs?? We love his gorgeous flying saucer eyes, and his super soft & silky coat.  And how about those little tufts of fur in his ears?  They are like ear…

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The Scoop: Stella & Chewy’s Frozen Raw, 25% off

Here’s the scoop on our food of the month, Stella & Chewy’s Frozen Raw Dinners, 25% off throughout June at our Newbury Street (Boston) or Portland Me store.  Limit one per flavor/size per visit.  More interested in a before & after?  Read this recent Stella & Chewy’s story in the NY Times Well Pets Blog. Ideal for:  all dogs and cats.  There’s plenty of taurine to make…

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Transparency, the New Black?

If a pet food company invites writers to tour its facilities, when everything the journalists see is carefully planned, is that really transparency?  Seems that this is a growing PR trend among corporations, and it is brilliant.  McDonald’s invites mom-bloggers for sleepovers and the result is a great PR turnaround. The Whole Dog Journal was invited to tour Proctor & Gamble’s Pet Health Nutrition Center…

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Still Coming Soon, Really! Our E-Store Story

We’re still having daily software problems with our POS system POSIM/EVO.  Our ecommerce website is coded and internally it’s SUPPOSEDLY ready to launch but with the bugs in the POS (the website and the POS are integrated), we’re hesitant to launch and also bogged down by cataloging and working through the POS bugs and hiccups. If we weren’t knee deep in the software I’d make the…

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