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Idahound’s raw cat foods are species-appropriate meals for your feline. Our complete and balanced recipe begin with sustainably-rasied rabbits that we source 100% in Idaho and process entirely into cat and dog food. Unlike other brands that source excess trim and organ from distant slaughterhouses, Idahound’s foods contain only the finest grass-fed meat and organs available.
Rabbit Products: Since 2018, Idahound has partnered with the same grower in Burley, Idaho, a small farming community an hour and a half from Carey. The rabbits are raised in a temperature-controlled, indoor space with extra large cages. Each doe has constant access to its nesting box and nesting materials. They are fed a diet of alfalfa and straw, along with small amounts of apple cider vinegar. While we've researched the "colony style" of rabbit butchering, the method is too chaotic for a commercial operation. Every rabbit is slaughtered humanely, according to standard practices.
For each protein, the butchering takes place on Idahound's ranch-ette in an old horse barn that we’ve converted into a food processing facility. Idahound employees render muscle tissue, fats, and organs for our grinds and treats, the stomach compartments for ground tripe, and a variety of bones. All product is immediately refrigerated and then processed within days, meaning our raw dog food goes from a live animal to a meal in less than 48 hours, frozen only after being packaged. The same goes for Idahound’s raw meaty bones and green tripe. We like to consider it a “farm to bowl” menu, fresher than anything produced by larger manufacturers.
You may have noticed that we like using the whole animal: meat, fat, organs, etc. Raising livestock requires a lot of energy, feed and water. As a result, every pound on an animal has value and, when possible, nothing should be wasted. To encourage the practice of holistic processing, any cart filled with frozen foods will automatically see the price of treats drop 10% (must be logged in). Achieve a balance and save.
If you’re unfamiliar with the benefits of raw feeding for cats, we have lots to talk about. More than likely, though, you’re already a committed raw feeder, scouring the internet for research, options, and new proteins (rotation is important!). If that’s you, we hope that you like what you find here: a love of cats and dogs, and foods made accordingly.
Why only rabbit? Our proteins are limited because we only buy grass-fed, humanely-raised animals within a hundred miles or so from our ranch. This keeps our carbon footprint a little lower and our foods a lot fresher. Pets are significant members of our food system. How their food is made and the energy inputs that go into it should not be ignored.
We also chose rabbit because it allows us to offer a “whole-prey” recipe. Each of our animals is skinned before being ground in its entirety. Forgive us for being so explicit, but it’s this process that makes Idahound’s Hare Balls so unique. Every pound of our rabbit diet contains the ratio of meat, organ, and bone that exists naturally within the animal itself.