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The new Hill’s Ideal Balance Crafted pet food is made in an interesting new/old school way.  It is made by hand, in small batches by people who care.  By using human grade ingredients which are used in regular “people food” like trout, salmon, tuna, roasted beef, and slow cooked chicken, you and your pet will have some great meals ahead of you.  For a moment, Iask you to step into a dog’s paws.  You live in this awesome house where it doesn’t rain and when no one is looking, you can sleep on the couch.  (Like mine is doing in the above photo- he’s ON ME- thinking I don’t know it, lol).  The only issue is the food, well… the food is good, but there is other food that smells a whole lot better then what you have to eat.  Imagine a slow cooker day where you set it and forget it as the smell of dinner permeates the entire house, changing and becoming more complex but is never for you.  This is the torture of being a dog sometimes.
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This post is sponsored by Hill’s. I am being compensated for helping spread the
word about Hill’s® Ideal Balance™ Crafted™, but Have Sippy Will Travel only shares information we feel is relevant to our readers. Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Inc. is not responsible for the content of this article.

The more you look at pet food labels the more you realize dog food is just as much a science as it is an art form.  With the proper ingredients, vitamins and nutrients(science), some delicious sounding food is made for our four legged friends(art).  With this in mind, we are looking at Hill’s new Crafted pet food line for dogs and cats.

Crafted is made in small batches, so attention to detail is evident.  Ingredients are all natural and flavorful.  Some of these ingredients include quinoa, buckwheat, chickpeas, natural trout, and mixed vegetables.  Everything is slow cooked to perfection, locking in the flavors and vitamins.
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As many of you know, we recently got a new addition to the house a 2.5 year old dog named “Cooper”.  Rescued from a shelter in NYC, he has been a good fit for our household, and we are enjoying him. Many of you know that we are also avid animal “foster parents”, and usually have a critter or two (or more) that we are fostering for a local shelter or rescue organization.  There just aren’t enough homes to go around, and too many animals are over-bred.  Cooper was in a high kill shelter, where his days were numbered.  As a matter of fact, there is a group that is pretty active trying to get pets out of there as fast as possible, and I’m sorry to say that many of the dogs we met while we were there adopting Cooper were put to sleep that same week, due to running out of room.  It broke my heart- sweet dogs, whose lives were cut short because no one took the time to find them good homes and just dumped them at a high kill shelter, or in the street where they were found wandering, or a million other sad stories.   The worst part is that it just didn’t need to happen. As the bumper sticker on my car says, “Don’t Buy Love- Rescue It!”

The Shelter Pet Project

Get true, unconditional, fierce, unforgettable love through shelter pet adoption!

Each year approximately 3-4 million pets are adopted from shelter and rescue groups, but 2.4 million healthy and treatable pets still need our help to find a home each year. The Shelter Pet Project is a collaborative effort between The Humane Society of the United States, Maddie’s Fund^®, and the Ad Council.

The goal of The Shelter Pet Project is to make shelters and rescue groups the first place people turn when looking to get a new pet.
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