About us
Our mission is to create the healthiest natural food that pets were born to eat and thrive on.
Aussies for aussies
As a family-owned Australian company, we’ve been making raw, healthy, nutritious pet food since 2000. We're proud to be Australia's leading healthy pet nutrition provider, keeping pets happy and healthy for 24 years.
Listen to this interview with Chris Essex about the Big Dog story.
We believe that nature knows best and add nothing unnatural or synthetic to our foods. We also believe in minimal processing to preserve the nutrient-rich content of fresh natural ingredients.
Why Big Dog?
Our commitment is to get audited regularly and provide the safest and healthiest food for dogs and cats.
Fresh & Carefully Sourced Ingredients
Carefully sourced ingredients from the human supply chain from Australian farms (organic where possible) and local farms.
Australian Made & Owned
We're proud to be Australia's leading family-owned healthy pet nutrition provider, keeping pets happy and healthy for 24 years.
Complete and Balanced by nature
Big Dog have completed a series of AAFCO Feeding Trials to substantiate the nutritional completeness of our food without adding synthetics to our recipes.
Members of PFIAA
We are a member of the Pet Food Industry Association of Australia, as part of our membership, we are audited to ensure we comply with their standards.
Top class in pet food processing
As well as the 100% carefully sourced ingredients from the human supply chain that we use, our processing facility is also top class. In fact, our production facility meets the same standards required for human-consumption meat manufacturing.
At our Brisbane factory our team blends together fresh select meats, along with crushed meaty bones, offal, fruits, vegetables and other pet-friendly superfoods to keep your companion happy and healthy.
Our promise to you and your pet
If it's not natural, it's not Big Dog, and this means:
NO artificial colours or flavours
NO preservatives
NO fillers
NO chemicals
NO irradiation of ingredients
NO cooking
NO synthetic vitamins, minerals or additives
We are committed to using real ingredients that you'll recognise. Because to us, pets are family and deserve real food. Food that makes them happy and keeps them healthy. We feed them as family.
We’re pet people too
At Big Dog, we care about your pets as much as you do, and we're passionate about feeding them as our own. Our team are committed to creating the healthiest food for cats and dogs, providing them with the energy and vitality to really thrive.
From food preparation, to head office, to logistics, Big Dog is a family of pet lovers dedicated to maintaining our commitment to you and your pet, by providing the best products and the best service, enabling you and your pet to live your best life together.
Proud supporters of the Smart Pups Assistance Dogs program
Giving back is important to us. Since 2016, we’ve been a major sponsor and food supplier to Smart Pups – Australia’s leading provider of assistance dogs to children with special needs.
