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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No News is Good News

The pet food recall this week thankfully hasn’t developed much further.  Sometimes no news is good news. The big lesson is, wash your hands when handling pet food, chews, treats and of course after poop duty.  The FDA recommends a 20-second scrub with hot water and soap (“sing happy birthday twice to time yourself”, is their suggestion, which I think sounds kind of creepy especially…

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Taste of the Wild, Natural Balance & Others Recalled Due to Salmonella Infection

Late on Friday night, Diamond Pet Foods issued a voluntary recall on dry dog foods manufactured in their South Carolina plant with ‘best by’ dates of December 9, 2012 through April 7, 2013. Several other brands have since issued preventative recalls as well.  The reason for the recalls is contamination by salmonella. 14 people so far, including one person as close as Connecticut, have been diagnosed with salmonella.  For a description of…

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