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For those of you dropping in for your first newsletter, welcome, to those of you who regularly open these up and read them, welcome back.
It’s 2016, fast approaching 2017, and when I reflect back it’s been an extremely quick quarter of a century to get to this point - this point being I’m 25 years in the business and still loving it. By profession I’m a packer, producer and purveyor of pet protein but most people just call me Dave.
Anyhooo, we attended the Pet and Animal Expo in Auckland the other weekend and after all this time there are still a lot of the same faces in the pet world that have been there for decades, and then there are a whole lot of new pet owners. The common theme of everyone who visited our stand is: they all love their pets, care about what they feed them and there is a genuine interest in people getting back to natural pet foods. The common theme from those coming into the category is that raw feeding's something new and cutting edge - the reality: we have been producing and advocating raw pet food for almost 50 years...