Furchild: Fresh, human-grade pet food in the UAE

This raw pet food company wants to provide the region’s pet parents with more premium options for their animals.

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Lindsay Beaton
March 10, 2026
Furchild is a United Arab Emirates-based fresh raw pet food company founded by two expats: Rob Kelly and Katherine Cebrowski, pictured here with White Swiss Shepherd Blanco.
Furchild is a United Arab Emirates-based fresh raw pet food company founded by two expats: Rob Kelly and Katherine Cebrowski, pictured here with White Swiss Shepherd Blanco.
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Furchild Pet Nutrition launched in 2016 with a simple mission: raise the standards of pet nutrition across the Middle East. The company was co-founded in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by expats and partners Rob Kelly and Katherine Cebrowski after the couple initially focused on providing a fresh, raw alternative to the available kibble and wet food options for their English Bulldog Maximus. When Maximus (and the second English Bulldog they adopted a couple of years later) thrived on the food they’d created, Kelly and Cebrowski decided they wanted to take things further and brought in international pet nutritionists and UAE-based veterinarians to help perfect their recipes — and so Furchild was born.

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