Nutri Source Dog Foods

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Testing with real life pets: Yes, we do test our products using real pets. This is taste testing for acceptability and appeal. First, we use our own pets and those of friends. We want to know first hand that the pets do find our products highly palatable. We also want to observe pets fed our foods over time to assure ourselves that the pets are the perfect picture of health and vitality which is when we utilize the services of a professional kennel to do taste tests. We taste test our products versus key competitors to make sure our products meet our high standards of palatability. The pets in the kennel that does the taste tests are well cared for and never subjected to harsh procedures or painful testing. In fact, the dogs and cats become pet experts at discerning differences in food preference. The dogs are mostly beagles; this mid-size breed is very easy going. The cats are mixed breed, very similar to many home's pet cats. The dogs are housed in clean quarters with time for outside play, exercise and dog-to-dog interaction each day. The cats are in multi-cat open room colonies that allow pet and human interaction.

Many of the ingredients used in making pet foods are purchased from local growers. Tuffy's uses state-of-the-art equipment to develop and produce a carefully formulated product that provides sound nutrition backed by extensive research and quality testing. The Tuffy's manufacturing plant in Perham, Minnesota, produces ONLY pet foods and the facility is the ONLY manufacturing facility that produces our branded products. This allows Tuffy's to deliver a consistent, high-quality product.

Tuffy's has more than 40 years of pet food manufacturing experience behind it. Tuffy's Pet Foods has an excellent reputation for manufacturing high-quality products, and this is due, in no small part, to a specially-trained work force and management team, along with high quality customer service that comes with a family-owned business. Approximately 100 people are employed at the Perham plant.

Yes, our products are tested. We test the ingredients and the finished products to make sure they are wholesome, nutritious and tasty, and to make sure the products meet the guaranteed analysis on each package. We test our products to assure ourselves that real life pets find them tasty and, in fact, do thrive on our foods.

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