Canine Caviar is a raw meat diet in a dry kibble form that provides pets with an alkaline and nutrient rich pet food. It also addresses other health concerns such as diabetes, kidney, liver and heart disease and helps settle digestive upsets, reduces scratching, shedding and hotspots.

With a reported one in four pets dying of cancer every year and nearly 100 different types of cancer affecting our pets, Global Pet Foods felt compelled to make this groundbreaking pet food brand available to Canadian pet parents.

Canine Caviar helps reduce the of risk cancer by providing pets with an alkaline and nutrient rich pet food that is also free of GMOs, gluten, hormones and antibiotics.

Created by U.S. research scientist Jeff Baker, Canine Caviar provides natural, holistic diets for both dogs and cats. It is now available for the first time in Canada exclusively at Global Pet Foods stores.

The food is available for dogs in the following flavours:
Grain Free Puppy Dinner
Chicken and Pearl Millet
Lamb and Pearl Millet
Wild Ocean Grain Free Dinner
Wilderness Grain Free Dinner
Special Needs Dinner (Senior,Overweight & Sensitive Stomach)
Gourmet Canned Turkey, Beaver,
Green Venison Tripe
Gourmet Canned Duck and Sweet Potato

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Now that winter is really here, some of our tiny and/or short fur friends have been inquiring about indoor social time at Masters ‘N Dogs Westboro. Sign up for our dog social club info and meetings by writing to Stella at: barkinwestboro@gmail.com
Some of you are already registered. If you’ve been to a social last winter when we were Bark & Fitz, we still have your info on file.

Please tell us your dog’s name and breed (or breed description if a mixed breed), month and year of birth, what food your dog is presently eating and what type of treats that it prefers. This will help us set up the socials properly. We try to group them by size and breed when the clubs start getting up there in number of participants. We aim to have a Small Breed Puppy group and a Large Breed Puppy grouping. Indoor socials will be on either Tuesdays or Wednesdays from 6:30 to 7:30. We ask that all members are gone by 7:45 so the staff can close up shop after a long day at work.

Indoor dog socials are meant to expose dogs of similar size & breed to other dogs and their masters. We offer treat samples, food samples, feature toy of the month, a basket with gently used toys “to share” and discussion time with our knowledgeable staff. We sometimes have special guests such as Bark Busters, a local artist or photographer and will have special promotions with store products for club members only. We ask for a donation to BARK rescue as an entry fee for these indoor socials. Once a month we will draw a door prize for social club members who’ve attended our indoor events.

Tue January 17th: Boxers
Wed January 18th: Small Fries (under 19lbs)
Tue January 24: Bullies & Pugs (bulldogs, frenchies, pugs)
Wed January 25: Small Breed Puppies
Tue January 31st: Large Breed Puppies
Wed February 1st: Doxies (dachshunds)

Masters ‘N DOGS Westboro, 354 Richmond Rd, Ottawa in Westboro Village, 613-792-3711

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Just when we thought they had cleared up all of the pet food problems, another one arises, this time involving Nutro Pet Food. Condolences to families who have lost their beloved pets due to this contamination.

The article: Illness, Death Dog Nutro Pet Food

Thanks Louise for bringing this to our attention.

In our culture today, everyone is becoming more aware of the importance of eating healthy and well grown food. Words like, organic and all natural creep into our vocabulary as we talk about our own food, but what about our four legged friends?

I recently attended a dog social at Bark and Fitz where food and treats was the hot topic. It was brought to my attention that the food I was feeding my dogs has a lot of ingredients in it that I can’t even pronounce, let alone understand what they are.

I had never really thought that there could ever be something wrong with pet food until the scandal last year when all of those poor dogs and cats died. It was determined that a rodenticide (rat poison) was used on the wheat gluten that was used to make the food.

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What is your opinion on feeding your dog table scraps or people food? We don’t give table scraps persay, but our girls get people food. Yogurt and a baby carrot every morning, Corduroy gets some pineapple pieces before we leave to get rid of her poo eating habits. They get cheese every once and a while and Paddington loves peanut butter. When we give them these treats, we make sure it is never at the table or while we are eating – we don’t want the dogs to start to beg.

People do have mixed feelings when it comes to this topic though. Some people don’t give any people food at all and others don’t seem to mind.

What is your opinion? (post opinions in the comments)

Photo Credits

• Garry Cook

In the same way that you would prepare for the arrival of a baby, you must prepare for the arrival of a new dog or puppy into your home. Puppies, like babies, are small and can get into everything, so one of the first things you must be sure of is that there is nothing around the height of your new companion that they may chew on and harm (either themselves, the item or both). This means tying up computer cables and possibly even moving books off the bottom shelves of book cases. We learned our lesson with this when Paddington was about four months old and chewed her way out of a baby gate and chewed up a bunch of my recipes!

You will also need to make sure you have plenty of puppy friendly chew toys such as Kongs or Nylabones. Paddington loved both her Kong and her bone…although the bone didn’t survive past her teething stage! It’s important to have these chewable toys so that the puppy learns that it’s fun to chew on them, and not your belongings.

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