We purchase all of our ingredients from Amish farms and stores. Our immediate hometown area, in east-central Illinois, is the location of the fifth largest Amish community in the world.

Carefully chosen ingredients. Each of our biscuits and gourmet treats are made with human food-grade ingredients, but with some very important considerations for your dog. Following is a list of each of our wholesome, dog-friendly ingredients.

Blackstrap Molasses is significantly higher in calcium than regular baking molasses and is a better choice for your dog.

Pure Honey from local Amish country apiaries provides the sweetness that dogs love without using sugar.

Colored Sesame Seed Sprinkles are used in place of sugared sprinkles that you will find on many other dog treats.

Colors from foods such as our creamy pink, smooth yellow and luscious green, all come from food, not from artificial food coloring. We use red beets for pink, spinach for green and tumeric for yellow, red currant for red and blueberries for blue.

Carob is Mother Nature's alternative to chocolate. Carob grows on trees in pod form, but is still classed as a legume. Carob is a natural cocoa substitute for those who cannot eat chocolate, including our four-legged friends. Carob has no caffeine, which is the ingredient in chocolate most harmful to dogs. Carob is also virtually fat-free and is a rich source of protein, fructose and vitamins A and B. We purchase carob in large blocks for melting, in powder form as a dry ingredient and as unsweetened carob chips.

All-natural peanut butter with no added sugar or salt. We purchase a German brand supplied by the Amish stores and find it to be an outstanding product. It's important for your dog that our peanut butter has no added sugar since we use other sweetening ingredients in our peanut butter recipes.

Our Flours and Powders. We purchase stone-ground whole wheat flour in two varieties. Medium-ground provides added fiber and a "crunchier" crunch to our biscuits and fine-ground flour give a lighter finish to our cupcakes, donuts and birthday/special occasion cakes. Naturally white, unbleached flour is also used in our cake recipes and unbleached flour is a better choice for your dog.

Yogurt coating is the white "icing" you will find on many of our gourmet dog treats. We also color the yogurt with the all-natural food colors mentioned above.

Non-fat dry milk is used in our biscuit gourmet treats versus regular or skim milk to be sure we add no more fat from milk.

All-vegetable shortening made of hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils is used in all of our biscuit dog treats except for our cakes, cupcakes and brownie formulas.

Liquids for flavor and processing include beef broth and chicken broth - both used for flavor and for processing and water for processing.

Organic low-sodium tomato sauce and parmesan cheese are the savory toppings on our cheese pizzas, BBQ Bones and BBQ Ribs gourmet dog treats. As a "certified" organic product, the tomato sauce must also be made up of ingredients, each of which must also be certified organic, such as garlic. Our sauce has no added salt, which is a good choice for your dog.

New product development: Wheat-free, corn-free, soy-free gourmet treats and a couple flavors of dog ice cream are currently under development. We look forward to offering these, and other fine gourmet dog treats to our customers in the near future.

Thank you for your interest in our gourmet dog treats. We appreciate the opportunity to serve you - and mostly to make your four-legged loved one very happy with our treats.