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Article: Meadville, Pa., Pet Food Maker Caters to Animals' Culinary Instincts.
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- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2002
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Byline: Teresa F. Lindeman
Oct. 15--Taste testers at Dad's Pet Care Inc. don't pussyfoot around. Given food they don't like, the canine crew has been known to urinate on the stuff. Too much good food and the felines struggle to keep their weight down.
The Meadville pet food company needs brutal honesty -- and who best to give them that than the pets who will use it? Better find out now if it's got a bad mix than in the grocery store aisles where the industry's big dogs roam.
"This is where our formulas start," said Jeff Lang, Dad's vice president, new product development, as he showed off the test kitchen and kennel behind the company's ...