Featured Blog Posts – June 2010 Archive (11)

I would like to invite dog owners to participate in a new on-line

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How the Industry Should Respond

While researching the effects of Ethoxyquin on pet freshwater invertebrates, I found a 2005 reassessment of inert ingredient tolerance of ethoxyquin, commissioned by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The reassessment states that "studies indicate that ethoxyquin is toxic to aquatic invertebrates, and mildly toxic to fish"…

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For any of you who may be located in Michigan or have friends or family in Michigan please refer this blog posting!

Thanks so much!!

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Even during a worldwide recession--or perhaps because of it--many companies have stepped up their campaigns to support and promote specific causes and charities. Petfood manufacturers are no exception. Continue

Thanks to Mungo Jerry's classic tune "In The Summertime" for being the inspiration for this parody, lyrics created by CATS, or this "hooman" speaking for the cats!!

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Though the petfood market has continued to grow globally the past two years, it has not been completely immune to the worldwide recession. Sales growth has not happened at the same healthy rate and, at least in developed markets, has been driven largely by price increases and sales of premium and superpremium products. Continue

I’m working with a client who is completely frustrated with the Pet food market. She says that she has tried everything to get in the door and still the potential clients are not responding. They are all “happy with their current vendors”. Now my first thought, (being the consummate salesperson I am), is to say “Not everyone can be happy. There has to be something that will spark…

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Back on May 21st I wrote a blog about how my cat (Cody) never seems upset when I leave the house and when I come home he can barely muster any enthusiasm, read Cody's rebuttal here!

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If you've ever sat through a conference session and thought you knew just as much, if not more, about a given topic than the person speaking about it--or you have some terrific new or insightful research or knowledge on petfood to share--why not submit an abstract for Petfood Forum 2011 or Petfood Forum Europe 2011? Continue

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If you make and/or distribute organic petfood in the US, you probably already know there's a potential threat for your products to be certified as complete and balanced petfood come September. Continue