K-9 Kraving’s Chicken Bites are  all-natural and made from 100% USDA, human-grade, unprocessed chicken meat. These high protein, low fat tasty bits of varying size and shapes make for a great anytime atta’ boyor midday forage for all dogs, big or small!

Average Per Piece Size: 1″-2″ wide x 1″ long 

Available through K-9 Kraving retailers in 1/2 pound packages and bulk. 

Guaranteed Analysis:

Protein: 73% (min.)

Fat: 5.4% (min.)

Fiber: .5% (max.)

Moisture: 15.9% (max.)

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K-9 Kraving takes great pride in manufacturing our own treats from all USA ingredients -  USA Certified, human grade, free range and steroid & antibitic free, in Baltimore, MD.

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.

Simply an affordable all natural chew, highly digestible, gently cleans teeth and for all size dogs. Our dried Achilles’ Tendons have medium last-ability and a great naturally beefy flavor. NO perservatives, dyes, flavoring or chemicals added.

Available through K-9 Kraving retailers.

Guaranteed Analysis:

Crude Protein: 92.4% (min.)

Crude Fat: 5.7% (min.)

Crude Fiber: 1% (max.)

Moisture: 12.6% (max.)

Simply put, everything K-9 Kraving makes and everything we make it with is done in the United States with ingredients that were born, bred and raised in the USA.

Looking for healthy, all natural dog food and treats? You’ve found them!

Looking for pet food manufactured to the same specifications as human food? You have found that too!

Looking for a brand manufactured by its own mother company? You guessed it? You found us!

To learn more, visit our main site at www.k-9kraving.com .

K-9 Kraving. Made in Baltimore, MD. Available nationwide.

Recently we received the following comment on our blog:

These treats should come with a warning label…my boston terrier recently had to have emergency surgery to remove a entire cow trachea ringlet that had lodged in his esophagus!!!

After exchanging emails we learned that the Trachea Ringlets, that ultimately caused the death of the reader’s Boston Terrier, were not purchased through K-9 Kraving. EVEN SO —as a treat manufacturer, we feel a great sense of responsibility in the matter.

As of today, K-9 Kraving only offers Dried Trachea in whole, natural sizes and are warning others to the possible and negetaive side effects of cutting the trachea to smaller sizes prior to feeding it to their dog.

 Our K-9 Kraving Bully Sticks are USDA and cleaned, meaning:

• Sourced from US beef cattle only
• No bad breath or odor

BULLY STICK: Is made from the bull Pizzle (Penis). Each unit ranges from 20-40+ inches in length. They are dried and then cut to smaller pieces for an all-natural chew treat for dogs. The Bully Stick has great last-ability (1-4 hours) and is especially great for canines who have ambitious chewing behavior. While a dog chews on a Bully Stick it softens, preventing sharding and is easier on the teeth and gums when compared to bones and digests safely. The diameter of a Bully Stick will vary as well depending on if a piece is cut from the wider base of the Pizzle or the narrower head of the pizzle. Click here to view our K-9 Kraving video ”How We do Bully!”

K-9 Kraving available sizes:

• Whole STick
• 12″ pre-cut
• 6″ pre-cut

What else is Pizzle used for? Click here to learn more

Available through K-9 Kraving retailers.

Free of steroids and antibiotics, our K-9 Kraving dried Duck Breast Strips are becoming a quick favorite.

A cross between a crunchy snack and jerky-type chew, the rich hypo-allergetic duck protein makes for a great anytime canine nosh.

AVERAGE SIZE: 3″-4″ in length x 1″ in width

Available through K-9 Kraving retailers.

Crude Fat: 14% (min.)

Crude Fiber: 0% (max.)

Moisture: 15.3% (max.)

Beef liver is high in protein, and it is a high quality protein, in addition to, a good source of both fat soluble and water soluble vitamins.

 

Our K-9 Kraving Beef Liver Slices are dried in our vintage smokehouses with no added ingredients…just pure beef liver. An aromatic, tasty and healthful treat for your companion.

Break large slices into smaller, treat-size bits prior to feeding.

Available through  K-9 Kraving retailers.

Guaranteed Analysis:

Crude Protein: 63.9% (min.)

Crude Fat: 10.7% (min.)

Crude Fiber: .9% (max.)

Moisture: 12.5% (max.)