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The day Tofu taught me how to read a label

By Mariana AcuñaApril 22, 20264 min read

Four months, two vets and a border collie with sensitive skin forced me to understand how a 'premium' bag of food is actually put together.

Tofu landed at home last winter at six months old, with the face of a tiny squirrel and a stomach so sensitive that any change ended in tears (his and mine). We tried three well-known brands in two months. None of them worked.

The vet looked at me, sighed and said the line that changed everything: 'read the label like it's a contract'. It turns out that many premium brands write 'chicken' in giant letters but most of the actual weight is grains and by-products. Order matters. Proportion matters.

Since then, every product that enters PetGo passes the same test: what's the first ingredient, are there unidentified by-products, is the animal protein percentage explicit? If the answer is vague, it doesn't make the catalog. Period.

Today Tofu eats a hypoallergenic lamb-first recipe with zero filler. His skin improved in three weeks. And yes, he still looks at me like I'm the most important thing on the planet every time I open the bag.

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