The federal regulatory framework that monitors the inclusion of novel ingredients may be reaching a troubling tipping point after nearly a decade of uncertainty.
These seven companies’ charitable actions include promoting pet adoptions, honoring service dogs, donating dog and cat food to shelters, and helping to connect people with service animals.
The founder of the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention recommends that pet food companies educate veterinarians on weight-control therapeutic pet food.
Petfood Industry continues to report on how pet food companies give back to society and how consumer consideration of a brand’s charitable efforts is growing.
Within the top 10 US-based pet food companies, the top two companies bring in more annual revenue than the other eight combined, according to Petfood Industry’s Top Pet Food Companies database.
Researchers tested how much energy and nutrition cats and dogs actually get when the animals digest certain pet food ingredients: calamari, pork peptone, alligator, venison, lamb, chicken and duck.
While the pandemic caused unprecedented suffering worldwide in 2020, the disruptions to dogs, cats and other pets adoption numbers may normalize in 2021.