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Local Love: Elevate Pet Wellness Center
Mar 26, 2025

Local Love: Elevate Pet Wellness Center

At The Honest Kitchen, we're proud to partner with local businesses and veterinary practices that align with our mission to help pets get on the road to good health through good food. One exceptional practice is Elevate Pet Wellness Center, co-founded by Abby Willms and Dr. Brooke Jacoby.

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Local Love: Noah's Natural Pet Market
Aug 19, 2022

Local Love: Noah's Natural Pet Market

As The Honest Kitchen celebrates our 20th anniversary, we can't help but look back at all the people who've stuck with us since the very beginning. This includes the very first retail location to put The Honest Kitchen on it's shelves: Noah's Natural Pet Market in San Diego, California. This store...

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Local Love Retailer Spotlight: South Bark Dog Wash
May 23, 2022

Local Love Retailer Spotlight: South Bark Dog Wash

Our Local Love series highlights the many independent pet retailers that we've grown to know and love over the last twenty years. In the latest installment, we're featuring South Bark Dog Wash, a companion-loving hotspot located in San Diego, CA that's been open for 21 years! We've asked them to...

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Local Love Spotlight: Loyal Biscuit
Apr 14, 2021

Local Love Spotlight: Loyal Biscuit

SUPPORTING LOCAL RETAILERS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO US AT THE HONEST KITCHEN. That's why we caught up with Heidi Vanorse Neal, the owner of Loyal Biscuit, to highlight one of our amazing retailer partners. The Honest Kitchen: Please tell us a bit about Loyal Biscuit, how it got started, and...

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Long Leash on Life Store front
Jun 18, 2020

Local Love Spotlight: Long Leash On Life

 We love our local retail partners! Long Leash On Life has been an outstanding partner to us over the years. We caught up with the owner, Norm Shrout, to see how they're navigating these weird and unusual times. Tell us a bit about your store, how you got started, year...

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Local Love
Apr 10, 2020

Local Love

The only thing I knew I wanted to do when I grew up was to be around animals. I knew I couldn’t be a vet unless the job description mimicked more like Doc McStuffins and the only medicine they needed was hugs and kisses. I was 16 when I got...

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Jan 02, 2019

The Honest Kitchen's Pawlanthropy 2018 Year In Review

Happy New Year! 2018 Pawlanthropy Recap As we embark on a new year, we wanted to share a few ways we were able to help charitable organizations in 2018, through our charitable arm of The Honest Kitchen, Pawlanthropy. Charity of the Month If you're a reader of our Monthly Email...

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THK Teams Up With Kriser's to Support Wings of Rescue
May 03, 2016

THK Teams Up With Kriser's to Support Wings of Rescue

Kriser’s, a multi-unit retailer specializing in natural pet food, supplies and grooming, is raising funds to enable Wings of Rescue to save planeloads of pets from overcrowded shelters. Wings of Rescue is a non-profit organization that has safely airlifted nearly 19,000 pets out of communities and regional shelters where they...

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Giving Back Through THK’s Pawlanthropy Program
Feb 10, 2016

Giving Back Through THK’s Pawlanthropy Program

The Barking Lot (TBL), an all-breed dog rescue located in San Diego, CA is dedicated to finding forever homes for many pups. Last month 118 pups were adopted, which is an all-time record for TBL. Congratulations to all the great dogs that found their forever homes and to the whole...

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Giving Back Through THK's Pawlanthropy Program
Oct 21, 2015

Giving Back Through THK's Pawlanthropy Program

Paw·lan·thro·py is the arm of The Honest Kitchen that focuses on charitable giving. Part of The Honest Kitchen’s Pawlanthropy program is the donation of full sized product that's used to help provide food to rescues for those pups or cats that come to them in need of love and good...

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