JustFoodForDogs, an organization retailer that provides wholesome meals for canines, will open in Lengthy Island Metropolis Friday (Picture by Michael Dorgan, Queens Put up)
June 15, 2022 By Michael Dorgan
A brand new retailer that provides wholesome meals for canines will open in Lengthy Island Metropolis Friday.
JustFoodForDogs, a California-based firm, will open at 47-46 Vernon Blvd. in an area beforehand occupied by a department of the actual property agency Trendy Areas. The entrance entrance to the shop is on forty eighth Avenue and is located subsequent door to the now-shuttered Bella Via restaurant that closed earlier this year.
The corporate was established in 2010 and has 35 areas throughout the U.S. The upcoming Lengthy Island Metropolis location will mark the corporate’s first in Queens and its second in New York Metropolis following on from its Union Sq., Manhattan, retailer.
JustFoodForDogs provides pet food that’s made utilizing USDA-certified elements together with meats, contemporary greens and entire grains. The meals is suitable for eating, based on the corporate, and no preservatives are added.
The pet food on the Lengthy Island Metropolis retailer can be made on the firm’s Union Sq. location the place it’s going to then be vacuum-sealed and frozen in an effort to lock in vitamins, based on Richard Wold, the senior vice chairman of retail operations and improvement at JustFoodForDogs.
It is going to then be delivered to its Lengthy Island Metropolis location. The shop will even provide wholesome cat meals.
“We’re a human-grade, entire meals meal firm on your pet,” stated Wold. “The whole lot we cook dinner, we cook dinner in small batches.”
Wold stated the corporate goals to extend the lifespan of canines by providing pet house owners wholesome meals for his or her canines.
He stated that conventional business pet meals, often called kibble, is just not very useful for pets and will be made utilizing questionable elements which might be grounded up and dried.
“A few of these corporations are form of utilizing our pets as simply mini recycling facilities for issues that aren’t made for, or edible for people,” Wold stated.
He stated that JustFoodForDogs carried out analysis that decided that canines consuming their meals had a more healthy immune system in comparison with canines consuming kibble.
The studies, Wold stated, confirmed that the JustFoodForDogs meals are extra digestible than conventional kibble and provide canines an array of well being advantages. He stated that canines consuming JustFoodForDogs additionally undergo fewer allergic reactions and abdomen issues — resulting in happier animals that stay longer.
He stated the corporate goals to increase the life expectancy of individuals’s pets.
“I simply need folks to make as many reminiscences with their pets as they will,” stated Wold, who grew up in Manhattan.
“I bear in mind being a child and we had a collie, and I simply look again and recognize each single day of his 14 years that I received to spend with him. I simply need to convey that pleasure to different folks too.”
JustFoodForDogs provides a variety of wholesome meals for canines (Pictures through JustFoodForDogs web site)
The corporate, Wold stated, provides a variety of pet meals that are available vacuum-sealed packages that embody beef and russet potatoes, hen, and white rice, turkey and entire wheat macaroni, and lamb and brown rice. There may be additionally a fish possibility and an all-day breakfast package deal consisting of eggs, contemporary pork tenderloin, spinach, pink bell peppers, russet potatoes and oats.
He stated the corporate additionally caters to animals which have dietary issues and so they have a group of in-house consultants who will assist pet house owners create an appropriate weight loss plan plan for his or her pets.
As an illustration, JustFoodForDogs provides a particular meal referred to as “balanced treatment” that helps canines with abdomen points. The meal, which Wold says is definitely digestible, is comprised of turkey, rice and sushi.
JustFoodForDogs additionally provides a chilled complement (Picture through JustFoodForDogs web site)
The corporate additionally provides dietary supplements aimed toward calming canines down throughout anxiety-producing occasions equivalent to storms or fireworks shows. Wold stated the corporate will hand out free samples of the product forward of July 4th, noting that extra pets go lacking throughout these celebrations than at some other time within the yr.
Wold stated the corporate was drawn to Lengthy Island Metropolis as a result of it is extremely household oriented, a lot of whom are pet house owners.
“Lengthy Island Metropolis is such a decent group and it has the best mix of pet mother and father which might be educated and perceive that their pets are like household,” Wold stated.
“That is completely the primary space we wished to come back to outdoors of Manhattan and we couldn’t be happier — that is precisely the place we needs to be.”
Opening hours can be from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays by way of Saturdays and from 11 a.m. to six p.m. on Sundays.
Pet house owners can order in-store or on-line and the corporate additionally delivers.
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