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Idahound® makes raw, species-appropriate foods for your dog. Our complete and balanced recipes, as well as our bones and supplements, start with grass-fed live animals that we source 100% in Idaho, slaughter on-site and process entirely into dog food. Unlike other brands that source excess trim and organ from distant locations, Idahound’s foods contain only the finest local grass-fed meat and organs available, all from animals that we butcher, process, and package in-house.
Beef Products: Idahound sources our line of grass-fed beef raw diets and dried treats from a handful of ranches in Jerome or Bellevue, Idaho, such as Prescott Land & Livestock, who are committed to sustainable practices . After years of bringing cows to our facility, we began "field dressing" in 2022, which involves a mobile butcher traveling to the ranch and slaughtering on-site. The quartered animal is then delivered to our facility in Carey, where it is deboned, ground, and packaged before being frozen. This approach significantly reduces animal stress, as they're not trucked and held, often indoors, at the slaughterhouse.
Lamb Products: Culled because of age after a life on the range, Idahound's grass-fed ewes are delivered to our Carey facility "on-the-hoof," as they say, from nearby ranches, such as the Peterson Sheep Company. Once the ewes arrive at Idahound, they graze freely before being slaughtered as humanely as possible. We take this procedure very seriously, minimizing animal stress, in order to respect both the sheep and the pets who will consume them.
Rabbit Products: Since 2018, Idahound has partnered with the same grower in Burley, Idaho, a small farming community an hour and a half from Carey. The rabbits are raised in a temperature-controlled, indoor space with extra large cages. Each doe has constant access to its nesting box and nesting materials. They are fed a diet of alfalfa and straw, along with small amounts of apple cider vinegar. Every rabbit is slaughtered humanely, according to standard practices.
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In addition to the muscle, fat and organ, we add organic carrots and squash from regional producers, which we’ve lightly baked for improved digestibility, organic apples from the Northwest and a smattering of organic powdered eggshells and Idaho alfalfa to balance the the sheep and beef recipes. We consider whole foods to be superior additions to round out our recipes than supplements. Far from fillers, each diet's portion of organic produce adds important macro and micronutrients, including essential vitamins, minerals and fiber.
You may have noticed that we like using the whole animal: meat, fat, organs, etc. Raising livestock requires a lot of energy, feed and water. As a result, every pound on an animal has value and, when possible, nothing should be wasted. To encourage the practice of holistic processing, any cart filled with frozen foods will automatically see the price of treats drop 10% (must be logged in). Achieve a balance and save.
If you’re unfamiliar with the benefits of raw feeding for dogs, we have lots to talk about. More than likely, though, you’re already a committed raw feeder, scouring the internet for research, options, and new proteins (rotation is important!). If that’s you, we hope that you like what you find here: a love of dogs, and foods made accordingly. Why only beef, sheep, and rabbit? Our proteins are limited because we only buy grass-fed, humanely-raised animals within a hundred miles or so from our ranch. This keeps our carbon footprint a little lower and our foods a lot fresher. Dogs are significant members of our food system. How their food is made and the energy inputs that go into it should not be ignored.