How did you evolve into the manufacturing end and start PetGuard?
Growing up in a household with pets and watching my mother daily prepare healthy meals for our family and for our pets, I learned early-on to be a passionate believer in the relationship between wholesome natural food and good health for people and their pets. Moving forward and dating back to the 1970’s, as a health food retailer, I regularly participated in a local radio call-in show that discussed the growing interest in all-natural foods. Callers were expressing concerns not only for the chemicals, preservatives and pesticide residues in their own foods and the impact upon their own health but the quality of products available for their pets as well. The PetGuard Company is actually an extension of my experiences as a health food retailer and a consciously aware pet parent. Daily, I would listen to customers expressing quality of life concerns and reflected upon the similar comments I was hearing from radio callers. Consumers were pleased that there was an increasing availability o
