Orijen wins Pet Food of the Year - Again!

Dear Readers,

As you all know...I LOVE my Orijen dog food.  Especially that Regional Red flavor we can only get ever seem to get in limited batches (who knew wild boar could taste so much better than they look).  However as many of you also know, Orijen can be a bit of a...um...a "pain"... to work with sometimes.  Always something out of stock or not shipping or frozen or closed or whatever.  So I was pretty happy to get this recent letter from Clark, up at Champion Foods, announcing not just the good Award news, but also offering some hints about future production improvements.

~Wilbur

                                                                                                                      

Dear ORIJEN partners,

With all of the product shortages we’ve faced in the past few months, we’re all over due for a little good news from ORIJEN… so here it is:

Selected against all other pet foods for its Biologically Appropriate formulations, ORIJEN was AGAIN named ‘PET FOOD OF THE YEAR’ by the GLYCEMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE of WASHINGTON DC.  The Research Institute is a non-profit independent research organization whose strict award criteria involve an in-depth analysis of ORIJEN’s ingredients, glycemic-response, diabetic-response, anti-aging factors and biochemical requirements for dogs & cats.

To celebrate this latest award, we’ve created new shelf hangers which we’ll send to you in the coming weeks for merchandising, we’re updating our website next week, and we are printing the second award on our new ORIJEN packaging, which should be ready by the middle of summer.

In regards to ORIJEN supply, our capital plans are developed and new equipment is on order as we gear-up to increase production throughout 2010.

Hope to see many of you at Global in Florida, congratulations on all of your medals you won at the Olympics.

Clark Stride

Champion Pet Foods

The FlatPuglet Project - Recycled Dogs Rock!!

I have got to tell you about this great campaign to increase awareness of 'recycled' (aka adopted) dogs.  It's exciting and creative and I know you will want to participate, too.  

It's called the Flat Puglet Project.  It was started by an adopted pug out in San Francisco to help let everyone know how great it can be to 'recycle' homeless dogs and how cool we can be. Yup, that's right.  If you didn't already know, both Delilah and I are adopted.  So is our brother, Douglas (he doesn't come to work much 'cause he is very big).  We all came from different rescue/shelter organizations and we are all great dogs.

The original Puglet and his brother, Dutch the Dalmation, saved up their cookie money to make the first FlatPuglets - beautiful printed flat pugs with big brown, pleading eyes.  They then put the FlatPuglets into envelopes and shipped them out into the world.  People take pics of FlatPuglet in all kinds of different locations with other adopted dogs and then post on the Flat Puglet Project page about the Puglet's 'visit'.

There are a few ways to participate.  You can sponsor a FlatPuglet for $10, helping to print and send a FlatPuglet out onto it's journey.  You can also apply to host a FlatPuglet.

I have emailed the real Puglet and his also-adopted brother, Dutch.  Delilah and I want to host a Flat Puglet here in Plano.  Maybe take him down to Dallas to see the grassy knoll or out to the new Stadium.  Bring him into WOOF to help work for a few days.  There are all kinds of places we could go with FlatPuglet.

Mother says if I give up one bag of coconut chips I can sponsor a FlatPuglet.  Delilah and I can each sponsor one if we give up a bag of chicken-wrapped seafood treats (y'all know how strongly I feel about those chicken-seafood treats).

I am thinking that it is totally worth a little bit of sacrifice on my part to help improve the lives of other pups who need a second chance like my siblings and I got.  So I am going to savor my last few pieces of chicken treats tonight and tomorrow I will start checking the mailbox for FlatPuglet.

Can you help, too?  Want to sponsor a FlatPuglet?  Or suggest some places for Delilah and I to take our guest when he arrives?


~Wilbur