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BY JOVANNA AGUILAR
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Pre-packaged pet meals at Bones 2 Go! are sourced from researched vendors.
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Bones 2 Go! meets rising demand for raw pet nutrition What started as a homemade solution to feed her pets turned into a business for Tracey Rent- come, founder of Bones 2 Go!, a raw pet food company rooted in passion for pet nutrition. Following the raw food movement in the late 1990s, Rentcome began crafting raw meals for her pets and those of her friends. As the demand grew, she launched Bones 2 Go! in 2003. The details What they oer Through Bones 2 Go!, a business where products are tested by her own pets before they hit the shelf, Rentcome facilitates pet nutrition. With services oered in store and through
Bones 2 Go! was founded by Tracey Rentcome in 2003.
delivery, raw food choices include ground chicken heart, ground beef heart, boneless turkey thighs and bones, patties, and meat bowls. Benets to feeding pets raw food include: • Better overall health and energy level • Improved dental health—raw meaty bones help to clean your pet’s teeth • Shinier coats and healthier skin • Smaller stools and better digestion. A dog or cat who eats raw is better absorbing their nutrients so stool volume is much less. • Leaner body mass and a strong immune system • Increased mental stimulation “You start to see the results when you start adding fresh food, even if you don’t do all fresh food, if you start adding fresh ground meat to the top of your [pets] dry food or oering it separately, you start to see the dierence in your cat’s coat and skin and your dog as well teeth and breath,” Rentcome said.
Through her experience going from commercial pet food to homemade, Rentcome said there was a noticeable change in her pets overall health. The original acronym for the raw pet food diet is the BARF diet, Rentcome said, which stands for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food or Bones and Raw Food, and is a raw feeding approach for pets that emphasizes a diet mimicking what their ancestors would have eaten in the wild. Rentcome said though she only intended to operate her business temporarily as an educational opportunity to teach others the importance of feeding their pets raw food, the demand for her services at Bones 2 Go! demonstrated the need for those continued services. While a large population of people saw the value in pet nutrition, Rentcome realized most people did not have the time to prepare meals themselves.
Felix has been an employee at Bones 2 Go! for over a year.
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