Flint River Ranch begins their food processing with natural & nutritious human-grade ingredients...... and then supplements to meet and exceed the requirements for a balanced dog or cat diet

• There Is No Comparison!

• Made with All Natural, High Quality, Whole Human Grade Ingredients
• Slowly twice-oven baked at low temperatures for easy digestion and maximum nutrition
  Fresh from the oven to your door. Flint River Ranch does not sit on the shelf!
• No By-Products (no feet, heads, intestines or feathers)
•  Naturally preserved with Vitamins E & C. No Ethoxyquin, BHA or BHT
  No artificial colors or flavors
• Concentrated. Costs less to feed. Less stool cleanup
• Great taste (Your Dogs and Cats will LOVE IT! Take our taste test!)

Flint River Ranch Dogs and Cats have a healthier shiny coat, healthy skin and a higher energy level. Our all natural, holistic ingredients also have a positive effect on allergic reactions, dental disease, degenerative organ disfunction, and feline urological syndrome (F.U.S.), often caused or enhanced by low-quality ingredients and chemicals that are common to most other dog and cat foods.

Proper diet not only is important for humans, it is the most basic aspect of a pet's lifestyle. Flint River Ranch has been formulated to help your companion animals heal holistically through properly balanced nutrition. The secret to Flint River Ranch's great nutrition is how many nutrients are present in the food and how efficiently they are utilized when digested.

One of the things that makes Flint River Ranch exceptional in the industry is that they only use high quality human-grade ingredients. This is in sharp contrast to well over 95% of pet food manufacturers, including Science Diet, Iams, Eukanuba, Nutro, Purina One and Pro-Plan, which all use pet-grade meats, grains and other ingredients.

Pet-grade food is food which is deemed unfit for human consumption by the FDA. Pet-grade grains include those which are moldy or rancid, while pet-grade meats include those termed "4D," which refers to meat and other products derived from an animal which arrived at the slaughterhouse either dying, dead, diseased or disabled. From these 4D meats come the by-products which are also used in these foods. By-products are a mix of such items as chicken feet, chicken heads, duck heads, beaks, fish heads, hides, hoofs and intestines.

These ingredients are commonly found in many "premium" pet foods, even though they have essentially no nutritional value. It is not surprising that these items are deemed unfit for human consumption. The question is:

How can we justify feeding dead food to the pets we love?

In addition to rejecting pet-grade foods and by-products, Flint River Ranch uses no artificial colors or flavors, and no ethoxyquin, BHA or BHT, propyl gallate, propylene glycol or other chemical preservatives. Perhaps the most notable of these, ethoxyquin, has been the subject of a great deal of debate, as ethoxyquin is classified as a pesticide.

While ethoxyquin is allowed in pet-grade foods, the maximum amount of ethoxyquin allowable by law in human-grade food is five parts per million, or the equivalent of 0.0005 of 1%. If ethoxyquin levels in food exceeds that amount, the food is then deemed unfit for human consumption. Because ethoxyquin is cheaper than many other chemical preservatives, it is used in the vast majority of pet foods you see in grocery and pet supply stores.