We’ve been very busy at K-9 Kraving, which explains why there has only been mild blog maintainence over the past several months instead of hearty posts. To make up for lost time, this post is dedicated to catching our readers and K-9 Kraving fans up on our current and not-so-current events.

Our summer weekends were dedicated to outside building maintenance and rehabing an existing room at Boesl Packing Company now dedicated to our K-9 Kraving treat packing room (yeah for me!).

Our treat business, just 1-year young in September, has blossomed. Made in the USA, healthy and all natural treats are apparently a rarety. As a result, we have received amazing retail support…my dedicated treat room came in the knick of time. Our latest and greatest new treats include:

• Free Range Bison Liver Canine Cookies
• Steroid & Antibiotic Free Duck Liver Canine Cookies
• Human Grade Sweet Potato Canine Cookies
• Seasonal Specials: Pumpkin/ Beef and Pumpkin/Duck Canine Cookies  

Also in the past year we have launched 2 new flavors of frozen raw diet dog food, Mackerel Complete and Duck Complete and 1/4 pound patties ; added Elk and Bison Neck and Marrow Bones to our variety of frozen bones, along with, Organic Turkey Necks and Duck Necks; and are in the process of updating all our 1 and 2 pound chub packaging to easy to identify flavor color coded wrappers/slicks. 

In August we partnered with a retail sales consultant for the Mid-Atlantic region. This is big considering our growth has been predominately through the working dog circuit, breeders, kennels and private dealers. Having a seasoned sales consultant has been instrumental in developing packaging, treats and  printed pieces more relevant to potential K-9 Kraving feeders in the pet community.

In November, we’ll be sharing our new 10-page company brochure. Not only is it packed with oodles of technical and educational K-9 Kraving and raw diet information, it is done so with style and soul. No stock photos to be found, all the canines featured are dogs of K-9 Kraving customers. This is our most dynamic support literature in our almost 10-years of existence. You may receive your own copy by emailing your request and mailing address to  info@k-9kraving.com.

We are well behind in our aspirations of an open house, allowing guests to experience “live” the making of K-9 Kraving and touring our facility. Instead we are setting our sights for this event for our 10-year anniversary. Stay tuned for our Open House penciled in for summer 2010. 

This month we spent 9-days in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky with the National Doberman Conference – our 1st national show. It was a lot of fun…and work. Great dogs, great folks and a great town. Could have done without the 8- turned 12-hour return home due to bad weather.

November 3-8 we’ll be in Davenport, Iowa for the German Shepherd National Championship. There we are co-sponsoring the event with our friends CPN. A 14-hour (minimum) road trip for an all outdoor event…IN NOVEMBER!  We hope to have the warmest booth by hanging 4 walls on our canopy armed with heaters inside. Just in case I’ll be doning Under Armor and one our new K-9 Kraving  embroidered skull ski hats.

Now I look forward to not packing treats, not stressing over a neglected blog, not answering emails morning, noon and night — and spending some much needed time cuddling with Miss Fanny Mae, who despite her natural lack of patience, has been incredibly forgiving of my focus on staying caught up versus giving her endless amounts of much appreciated belly rubs. Thanks to our readers as well for your patience while we caught up with ourselves at K-9 Kraving. Happy Fall…for at least what’s left of it.

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