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Spoiled Dog Boss Teaches Healthy Cooking For Pets
5/20/2020 | 3m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
This dehydrated pet treat company in Willoughby, OH, puts pets' health first.
Spoiled Dog Boss began six years ago when a commercial pet treat made Dawn DeFrank’s dog Daisy sick. Today, her mission to educate pet parents on the importance of real ingredients in dog and cat treats has evolved into a live cooking segment called “Wellness Wednesdays.”
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Making It is a local public television program presented by Ideastream
Making It
Spoiled Dog Boss Teaches Healthy Cooking For Pets
5/20/2020 | 3m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
Spoiled Dog Boss began six years ago when a commercial pet treat made Dawn DeFrank’s dog Daisy sick. Today, her mission to educate pet parents on the importance of real ingredients in dog and cat treats has evolved into a live cooking segment called “Wellness Wednesdays.”
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Nothing else I can do; I just try to figure out ways to move my business forward.
(upbeat acoustic guitar music) Hi, I'm Dawn DeFrank, the owner of Spoiled Dog Boss.
And this little lady is my dog Daisy, the other owner of the company.
I am a dehydrated dog and cat treat company.
All of our our treats are designed with the health and wellness of your pets.
93% of our meats come locally from Geauga Co. family farms.
Been in business for five years.
I am licensed out of my home.
I'm very grateful.
I hate to say that I've been good, you know.
Obviously, summer, I'm getting affected 'cause everything has been canceled.
The bulk of my income has come from summer events.
Initially, I got this surge of people buying my products and I was like, "this is gonna be a great year!"
Not computing that people were mass buying from me as well because they didn't know what was gonna happen with my business.
Then I kinda leveled off but people have been showing love to local.
I'm still currently in three stores that have not closed and I'm an online business.
People come here and pick stuff up now and you can call, make an appointment, with you I don't let more than one person at a time here.
I'll set stuff into my coolers, they come in my driveway, pick it up and I wave through the window.
There's a lot of people walking their dogs.
I've handed out business cards, and I've actually been drumming up business that way.
We do this thing, with my company called "Wellness Wednesdays" and we cook with Miss Daisy.
I put this big chair in here and I do a live feed on Facebook and every week I do a different recipe and I show people how to incorporate healthier things into your dog's diet.
Today, what are we making Dase?
Daisy's turkey meatballs!
Oh my goodness!
Something different and it gives me something to do every week instead of the doom and gloom of everyday life.
I don't know personally, where I would be without Daisy or my cat, Tuna.
I mean it's one thing that I call my friends, we'll talk, whatever, it's not the same as having someone that I can pet, that there's that connection, That there's a feeling, there's something tangible that I can actually hold during these times.
Slow and steady, that's my pace, that's my goal and my sales have been still slow and steady.
As long as I'm still continually growing no matter how long it takes.
There is that positive of us moving forward.
Maybe not the same way, but at least it's moving forward.
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