hushpuppies
Small-batch dog food

Dinner, slow-cooked for the dog who runs your life.

Real cuts, single-source proteins, and pantry vegetables you'd cook with yourself. Portioned, frozen, and shipped to your door in insulated packs.

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Inside the Hushpuppies kitchen
Our story

It started with a picky beagle named Otis.

Otis turned up his nose at every bag, can, and pouch the big brands made. So we started cooking for him in a stockpot on a Sunday afternoon — chicken, sweet potato, a little kale, a splash of fish oil.

He ate every bite. Then his coat got glossier, his energy steadier, his vet visits quieter. Friends with dogs asked if we'd cook for theirs. A small operation became a slightly bigger one, and Hushpuppies was the name our six-year-old picked.

We still cook everything in small batches. We still know the farms our meat comes from. And we still feed every recipe to our own dogs first.

How we cook

Four rules. No exceptions.

Every recipe we ship started in the same small kitchen on the same four rules.

01

Real ingredients

Whole muscle meat, organ, and pantry vegetables. Nothing rendered, nothing mystery.

02

Slow-cooked

Gentle low-temp cooking preserves nutrients meat-meal extrusion destroys.

03

Vet-formulated

Every recipe is balanced to AAFCO standards by a board-certified veterinary nutritionist.

04

Shipped cold

Portioned, frozen, and packed in compostable insulation. Two-day cold-chain to your door.

My senior lab hadn't eaten with enthusiasm in two years. Three days on a Hushpuppies recipe and she's waiting by the fridge at 5pm sharp.

Marisa K. Portland, OR — mom to Pepper, 11