DuckCreek's Healthy Pets

12/25/2023

07/18/2023

WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW COULD BE HARMING YOUR PETS 🐶🐱‼️
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When you pick up a bag of dog or cat food from a retail store, it’s impossible to know the history behind the product you’re holding

🐾You don’t know how long it’s been on the shelf, or how long it lingered in the storeroom before being placed on the shelf.

🐾You don’t know how long it was stowed in a shipping container, subjected to temperature extremes.

🐾You don’t know how long it was stockpiled in a distribution center prior to shipping.

In fact, many mass-produced dog & cat foods are stashed away in tractor trailers without any form of climate-control for weeks, even months. And, you have no idea if proper handling of bags and pest-control are priorities for the packaging centers and warehouses where the product is bagged and stored.

✅Why does it matter that you can’t know the history of the retail product?

As you might correctly guess, the way dog & cat food is stored can directly affect its nutritional value and safety. The bottom line is, just because it’s store-bought doesn’t mean it’s fresh.

02/16/2022

DOG MOMS ❤🐾 -- Can I help you celebrate National Pet Dental Health month !?

We're running a promo this month on our...

✅ Gourmet Dental Treats - Help support healthy teeth and gums! Oven baked goodness they contain a variety of healthy grains, high-quality proteins plus hefty helpings of calcium and phosphorus

✅ Water Buffalo Bully Sticks - The ultimate in chewing satisfaction! Help reduce tartar and maintain canine dental health. Contain no additives or preservatives

✅ Premium Cow Ears ( 🐾🐾 NEW PRODUCT 🐾🐾 ) - A safe alternative to rawhide. Single ingredient treat is gentle on tummies with no added colors, flavors or preservatives.

You can save up to 13% off retail on these products through the end of the month!

02/14/2022

February is Pet Dental Health Month! Your pet's nutrition is just as important as brushing their teeth when it comes to maintaining their pearly whites. Read on to find out more.

03/04/2021

ATTENTION, PLEASE READ & SHARE!

This pet food made by Bravo Packing, Inc. may be contaminated with bacteria, and all packages of it are being recalled. Full details here.

08/26/2020

Specific lots of this dry dog food from Nature's Menu have been recalled because of potential salmonella contamination. Full details here.

08/21/2020

Here's one big, whopping example of how we do business with purpose, and how it plays out in the real world.

Regrettably, ingredient swapping is a common practice in manufacturing. This is where a company will actively seek out cheaper ingredients even if it means producing a lesser-quality product. That is because most companies place profit above purpose. Not us! Here, every ingredient is carefully chosen, suppliers are vetted and sources are thoroughly reviewed. Here is an example:

We make millions of pounds of dry pet food each year. We have chosen to use sunflower lecithin in these recipes. If we were to use soy lecithin instead we could easily save nearly $100,000 a year and not even have to change the label! We could simply list “lecithin” and you, the consumer, would never know. Now, multiply this by each ingredient in each product and you can see why other companies are devoted to this tactic. This is why it is so important for consumers to align themselves with a company they trust and can feel good about.

With the Life’s Abundance brand you and your customers can be assured of receiving truly premium products. That’s because we are driven by our purpose, to empower the health and happiness of families, and not by profit. Yes, profit is necessary to carry on as a business. But we view profit as a gauge of how well we’re achieving our purpose (how many families we’re reaching). Go to www.DuckCreeksHealthyPets.com to learn more!

08/20/2020

WHY IS LIFE'S ABUNDANCE NOT FOUND IN STORES? Because of our direct shipping relationship with consumers, combined with our controlled manufacturing process, we know which consumer received which product, down to the lot number. In the event there is ever an issue with a product, our proactive communications system allows us to reach 6,000 people by phone in just one hour! We can also reach them by email and through the mail.

Our no-worry notification system gives people the transparency they desire and helps boost confidence in their purchase decision. Another reflection of our purpose, this system is in place to protect consumers to the level we think they deserve. We view the traditional system of product recalls to be inherently broken. That is, unless the problem is big enough to have potentially harmed a large number of people, most consumers will never hear about a recall. Yet we have a solution to keep customers safe that we not only feel is acceptable, but that we take pride in.

08/19/2020

WHY IS LIFE'S ABUNDANCE NOT FOUND IN STORES? Because of our direct shipping relationship with consumers, combined with our controlled manufacturing process, we know which consumer received which product, down to the lot number. In the event there is ever an issue with a product, our proactive communications system allows us to reach 6,000 people by phone in just one hour! We can also reach them by email and through the mail.

Our no-worry notification system gives people the transparency they desire and helps boost confidence in their purchase decision. Another reflection of our purpose, this system is in place to protect consumers to the level we think they deserve. We view the traditional system of product recalls to be inherently broken. That is, unless the problem is big enough to have potentially harmed a large number of people, most consumers will never hear about a recall. Yet we have a solution to keep customers safe that we not only feel is acceptable, but that we take pride in. Comment your thoughts below!

06/17/2020

When you check for ticks here's a place to look too!!!

05/20/2020

INGREDIENT SPLITTING --
THE DOG FOOD INDUSTRY'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET!

Ingredient splitting might be one of the pet food industry’s most controversial practices.
Dog food companies deny any intentional wrongdoing. They claim they’re only reporting a product’s contents — and simply following government guidelines.
Yet others cry foul. They insist ingredient splitting is nothing less than a deliberate attempt to mislead consumers — a common trick used by less ethical dog food companies to make an ingredients list look more attractive to buyers than it really is.
So, who’s telling the truth?
What Is Ingredient Splitting?
Ingredient splitting is the deceptive practice of subdividing a more abundant — yet inferior quality — ingredient into smaller portions.
This dubious tactic can be used to artificially raise a meat item to a higher position on an ingredients list — and lower an inferior one.
How Does It Work?
Say you have a dog food in which corn is the dominant ingredient. Since corn is less nutritious to a dog than meat, it’s considered a lower quality item.
Remember, pet food manufacturers are required to arrange each item on every ingredients list in order of its precooking weight.
Now, take a look at the “Before Splitting” side of the table below.
Notice how corn, with its 30% pre-cooking weight, gets a first place position. Second-ranked rice makes up the next 20%, thus leaving chicken meal (a quality item) to occupy the list’s #3 spot.
Of course, dog food companies want their products to “look” like they’re meat-based. So, they’re well aware an ingredients list like this isn’t likely to impress a label-reading shopper.
Turning Straw Into Gold
Now, what would happen to that same list if you divide a few of the more abundant ingredients into smaller portions?
Please look at the ride side of the table labeled “After Splitting”.
Now, instead of using 30% corn, a pet food designer could simply split corn into corn meal and corn flour — at just 15% each.
And replace the original rice with other rice ingredients.
That would move the corn and rice components further down the list. And so, even though the amount of chicken meal remains unchanged, it’s now magically the first-ranked ingredient.
Don’t Overvalue the First Ingredient
If you’ve ever been told to only look for dog foods where meat is the first ingredient, please remember the deceptive power of ingredient splitting.
Being able to divide a dominant ingredient into smaller portions permits any pet food company to trick you into believing there’s more meat in a product than there actually is.
So, the next time you see a meat item as the first ingredient on the list — don’t be too impressed until you look at the BIG picture.
Or you could become the next victim of the pet food industry’s ability to re-order its ingredients list to suit its marketing strategy.
Life's Abundance is NOT one of those who practice deceitful marketing. We have NEVER had a recall, and are made in the USA with USA ONLY ingredients.