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  • Ferment on This: Dietary Fiber for your Pets

    What is dietary fiber? Dietary fiber is a type of plant-derived carbohydrate. Carbohydrates can be broken down into simple versus complex. Simple carbohydrates would include sugars like glucose. However, dietary fiber is a complex carbohydrate consisting of many simple sugars in different configurations. The dietary fibers are indigestible, meaning that your pet cannot break them down and digest…

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  • Rotational Feeding for your Pet

    There are more choices for pet foods now than ever before. If that wasn’t overwhelming enough for us pet owners, there’s also a plethora of information available! With such a wide variety of diets to choose from, it can be difficult to know which one is the best for your pet. There is a new concept that has recently been gaining more traction over the past few years – Rotational Feeding!

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  • The History of Dog Food: A Quick Recap

    History of Dog Food Our pets are our family – and while it’s hard to believe, this was not always the case. The domestication of dogs is not new, in fact dogs have been domesticated for centuries now. Early domestication of dogs suggests that they were most commonly used to assist with hunting, guarding livestock, and to protect our homes from pests and other dangers. As our relationship with our…

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  • What Does Healthy Fat Mean For Pets?

    What Does Healthy Fat Mean for Pet Food? If you’ve ever heard of the term “healthy fat,” you are not alone. Healthy fats, as a promotional term, are widely used to describe the nutrition of pet foods. But what does “healthy fat” mean? Are there bad fats? How do I know if my pet is getting “healthy fats”? Aren’t all fats bad fats? Here we provide some answers to these common questions!

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  • Top 6 Benefits of Hemp Seed Oil in Pet Food

    Hemp seed oil is extracted from the seeds of the hemp plant. Even though the hemp plant is from the same plant family that cannabis comes from, hemp seeds do NOT contain any cannabinoids! You may have noticed in many of our new recipes, that canola oil is no longer included but instead, we are using hemp seed oil. Why? Well, hemp seed oil is full of nutrients that are beneficial for you…

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  • Transitioning Your Pet To Their New Diet

    Why Do You Need to Transition? Introducing a new diet to your pet is an exciting change! But an abrupt change in diet can result in poor digestive health for your dog or cat. Your dog or cat breaks down food using enzymes, hormones, and other physiological means. The nutrients that are released fuel your pet with energy, but they also play a huge role in shaping the microbiome in the digestive…

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  • Dietary Requirements At Every Life Stage

    Each stage of your dog’s life will have different dietary requirements. We make sure to cover all the bases! **Note: All of our cat meals are formulated for both kittens and adult cat weight maintenance. Puppies Puppies require about twice the amount of energy per bodyweight from the food they eat than adult dogs during their period of growth. Our Feeding Guide assists you in knowing how much to…

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  • LESLIEVILLE RETAIL STORE COVID-19 SHOPPING PROCEDURES

    As of July 4th in-store purchases is now available CURRENT HOURS 7 DAYS/WEEK: 10AM to 5PM We have strict rules for entering our premises and making in-store purchases, as follows: No person can enter our premises if they are exhibiting any symptoms of COVID-19 Masks MUST be worn to enter our building. NO MASK, NO ENTRY, NO EXCEPTIONS* 3 customers maximum are allowed inside store at any time and 6…

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