Clean Pet Food & Pet Care Brands — Independent & Verified

Lickity Paws is a South Portland, Maine dog-treat company making frozen and freeze-dried “pup cup” treats. The brand comes from Stacey, a trained chef, recipe …

PBJ Dog Biscuits is a Falmouth, Maine dog-treat company started by Shawna Jette after her own dogs turned out to be allergic to chicken. The first recipe came …

Timber Bark Treat Co. is a Chester, Maine pet-treat company making small-batch jerky and chews for dogs and cats. The brand began as TriPom Chews in 2008, when …

Ruff Pine Dog Treats is a Maine pet treat company run by Nicholas and Emily Conley in East Waterboro. The Conleys started making treats for their own dogs, …

Vermont Dog Eats makes organic dog treats in Montpelier, Vermont, with the kind of ingredient standard more often applied to human snacks than pet-aisle …

Maiden Montana Pet Treats is a Lewistown, Montana pet treat company built around one plain idea: pets with sensitive stomachs do better when the ingredient list …

Lord Jameson makes USDA Organic dog treats from its own kitchen and fulfillment center in Boulder, Colorado. The company was founded by Sarah Goldberger and …

Zamzows is an Idaho lawn, garden, and pet business with its own line of dog and cat foods, not just another retailer reselling national pet brands. The company …

Fluker Farms is a Port Allen, Louisiana, reptile-food company with roots back to 1956. It started as Fluker's Cricket Farm and still centers on feeder insects, …

Black Sheep Organics is a small, independently owned pet care brand based in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. They create natural dog grooming products such …

Farm Hounds is a Georgia dog-treat company built around a simple idea: if the ingredient comes from a farm, tell the customer which farm. The company launched …

Green Juju is a Seattle-area pet-food brand founded in 2014 by Kelley Marian. The first product was Just Greens, a fresh whole-food blend Kelley developed after …

Oma’s Pride is a Connecticut raw pet-food brand rooted in a fourth-generation family food business. The name comes from Margaret “Oma” Miller, the family …

Raw Paws Pet Food is an Indianapolis raw pet-food company founded in 2014. The company describes itself plainly: a small family business and woman-owned …

Smallbatch Pets started in a San Francisco flat with Blue, a rescue cat whose needs pushed his people to make fresh food themselves. The company grew from those …

Cotton's Cafe Dog Treat Barkery is a Mississippi pet treat brand started by Janet McCarty after she rescued Cotton, a one-pound boxer-pointer mix with health …

Bayou Chien Raw Foods is a raw dog and cat food company in Saint Amant, Louisiana. The brand is built around meat-based pet food, single-ingredient dehydrated …

SodaPup makes dog enrichment toys, slow feeder bowls, lick mats, chew toys, treat dispensers, and puzzles under True Dogs, LLC. The company was founded in 2012 …

Dr. Harvey's is a New Jersey pet nutrition company built around whole-food base mixes, freeze-dried treats, functional chews, oils, and supplements for dogs, …

Molly Mutt makes dog bed covers, crate covers, crate pads, blankets, couch covers, car seat covers, wool inserts, and related pet textiles from its base in the …

Grandma Lucy's is a Southern California pet-food company founded in 1999 by Eric and Breann Shook. The story starts with their English Cocker Spaniel, Lucy, who …

Redbarn is a California pet-food company started in 1996 by childhood friends Jeff Baikie and Howard "Howie" Bloxam. The company makes dog food, cat food, …

Buck Bone Organics is a Bozeman, Montana pet brand built around naturally shed antler chews and dog treats. The company says its story began in 2014 while …

Wagatha's is a Vermont dog-treat bakery based in Manchester Center. The company has been making organic dog biscuits since 2006, with a product line that leans …

Annamaet Petfoods is a Pennsylvania pet food company founded in 1986 by Rob Downey and Mary Jo Downey. The name comes from Rob's mother, Anna Mae, but the …

Portland Pet Food Company started with Rosie, a senior standard poodle who had stopped eating the premium food her family kept buying. Katie McCarron cooked a …

Small Pet Select is a family-owned small-animal supply company that began in Ellensburg, Washington, hay country. The origin story is practical: Laurie Gordon's …

Wondercide is an Austin company making flea, tick, mosquito, and household pest products with plant-powered active ingredients. Founder Stephanie Boone started …

RAWZ Natural Pet Food comes from the Scott family, the same family behind Old Mother Hubbard and Wellness before those brands were sold. RAWZ is the newer …

AlaSkins makes dog treats from one ingredient: wild Alaskan fish skins. Salmon, halibut, and cod skins are dehydrated into crunchy treats instead of being …

Idaho Barkery started with one allergic dog and a pharmacist who refused to keep buying treats full of fillers. Sabrina and Brendon built the company from a …

Gaines Family Farmstead exists because of a dog named Beam. When the Gaines family's dog got sick from a rawhide chew, Dewar Gaines decided the pet treat market …

Idahound makes raw dog food in Carey, Idaho — a town of about 600 people in the Wood River Valley. The company was founded in 2014 by Chris Cey, a high school …

Idahound started the way a lot of good pet food companies do: one sick dog and an owner who refused to accept "normal." Chris Cey, a high school science teacher …

Josh and Holly Allen know pet retail from the inside. They built Dee-O-Gee, an award-winning chain of independent holistic pet supply stores in Bozeman, …

Joyce Belcher is a certified herbalist who spent years studying under respected teachers — Amanda McQuade Crawford and David Winston among them — before she …

Drool Central is Anchorage's first "dog bakery," a title that founder Daisy Nicolas wears with pride. Since 2013, she’s been on a mission to provide Alaskan …

West Paw is an outlier in the pet industry, proving since 1996 that you can build a massive, successful brand in Bozeman, Montana, without selling your soul to …

Arctic Paws makes Yummy Chummies salmon-based dog treats in Anchorage, Alaska, using wild-caught Alaskan salmon as the primary ingredient. The company started …

Hound & Gatos makes single-protein, whole-meat pet food in New Mexico, built around a dead-simple idea: dogs and cats are carnivores, and their food should …

Benebone is a family-owned dog chew toy company that began over 10 years ago with the notion that pet parents want the best for their dogs. Frustrated by pet …

Fromm Family Pet Food is a fifth-generation family-owned and operated pet food company founded in 1904 by the Fromm brothers in Hamburg, Wisconsin. For over 120 …

ZIWI is a New Zealand-based pet food company that creates ethically-sourced, peak nutrition products for cats and dogs, using a unique twin-stage air-drying …

Rebel Raw is a local, family-owned raw pet food company founded in 2014 by Matt and Tina, a husband-and-wife team from Atlanta's Grant Park neighborhood who …

Simple Food Project is an independent pet food company founded and owned by Dr. Chris Bessent, DVM, a holistic veterinarian who formulated the recipes according …

Founded by Marie Moody in 2003, Stella & Chewy's creates raw and freeze-dried pet food using responsibly sourced proteins and organic produce to help pets …

The Honest Kitchen pioneered human-grade pet food, creating dehydrated whole food meals made in a human food facility with ingredients you'd recognize from your …