Pet Industry

[pdhmobile]

The raw meat idea has struck a chord with me, sounds like a good idea.
I'm sure the owners want the best for there dogs and whats better to a dog than raw meat!

Does anybody have any further info on this, suppliers, etc.

Would it be like a pack of cubed beef or a shin bone?? Not sure on cuts of meat??

Think I would sell like the betterware, leaflets through the door and maybe a basic website to back it up.

Low start up costs as well and could stedily grow big enough to become fulltime!!

Thoughts???

 

[sla3]

Oh dear. Can't see me getting very far on here.
Nice to have met you

Yes, you definitely need to grow a thicker skin .... I mean "fur-jazzle" was leading with your chin, wasn't it? It even SOUNDS like vajazzle. Can you imagine little Hermione saying to Mis Sticklethwaite in class how Mommy Shanice got her a fuhjazzle treat at the weekend?

 

[Consistency]

The raw meat idea has struck a chord with me, sounds like a good idea.
I'm sure the owners want the best for there dogs and whats better to a dog than raw meat!

Does anybody have any further info on this, suppliers, etc.

Would it be like a pack of cubed beef or a shin bone?? Not sure on cuts of meat??

Think I would sell like the betterware, leaflets through the door and maybe a basic website to back it up.

Low start up costs as well and could stedily grow big enough to become fulltime!!

Thoughts???

In relation to the raw meat, I feed my dogs raw meat all the time. We have it delivered and it is brilliant. It is very bloody and having 4 German Shepherds, they take a huge freezer.

One day I defrosted the freezers and cleaned them all out in time for the delivery and it was all nice. I packed the freezer, tripe, bones, wings etc and had a nice cup of tea.

Next morning I got up in the morning and all I could do was say quietly "fvvvinck hell". There was blood everywhere. I never switched the freezer back on. The day before the bins had been emptied and it was summer. Fortnightly deliveries.

They had a good feast but there was well over £100 worth of meat and the poor animals who died for it. I could not refreeze it as it could be dangerous.

It is the best food for them and they love it but it does need care.

 

[Mitch3473]

And this is what I found, it is body art. So I still don't get what that has got to do with pet things.


Vajazzle spelling blunder leaves customer with wrong man's name on bikini line
Mar 18 2012 by Mike Lockley, Sunday Mercury

A BEAUTY salon customer was left less than dazzled by her vajazzle – the intimate body art craze sweeping the nation.
Toni Allport decided to take the plunge and have the same sequined, spangled treatment as stars of ITV reality show ‘The Only Way Is Essex’.
She wanted to mark her 40th birthday by having her husband’s name, ‘Lee’, written in Swarovski crystals along the bikini line.

But her visit to local salon Meridian, which specialises in the risqué body art, was more ‘The Only Way Is Dyslexics’ than TOWIE.
And she had to answer some pretty awkward questions after looking down after the 40-minute session to discover the name ‘Len’ picked out in gems on her stomach.
Thankfully, the mistake didn’t spell trouble for the Walsall school assistant.
“I don’t know who the hell Len is,” she laughed, “but thankfully my husband saw the funny side. I’m confident it won’t spoil the romantic break we’ve booked for my birthday. I’ve told Lee not to look at it.

“It’s not like a tattoo – I won’t have to get Lee to change his name by deed poll. They can put it right.”
The busy salon in Cheslyn Hay has quickly carved out a reputation for mixing ornate non-permanent body art with traditional beauty treatments. There’s currently a queue of women waiting to have their toenails encrusted with ‘sparklies’.
“Toegems are the latest ‘must have’ for the beach,” cooed salon boss Faye Bray. Former X-Factor contestant Faye is a glittering, walking advertisement for her products.
She admitted, however, that when it came to regular customer Toni she and her girls got it wrong.
“It was a mixture of a very busy day, a communication breakdown and one of our girls having a boyfriend called Len,” said the 30-year-old. She wouldn’t say who.

“Toni saw the funny side straight away – even when we said we couldn’t put things right there and then. That’s because she had spray tan and waxing at the same time.”
And the fashion faux pas won’t stop Toni visiting Meridian again. “They’ve been superb,” she said. “They couldn’t be more apologetic and have thrown in a few freebies. They’re the best at what they do.
“We’ve all been in stitches.”
Locally, Meridian is at the forefront of the vajazzle craze with women of all ages wanting the ornate, eye-catching designs.
Manageress Michelle Parker said: “We’re doing them for all ages, with Christmas and Valentine’s Day proving popular.
“With the summer holidays coming up, we expect to be rushed off our feet.”
The salon also has a growing list of male customers. “We have a lot of men in for skin peels,” added Michelle, 35. “Eyebrow waxes are also popular.”
Boss Faye said the business boom was down to the hard work of ‘her girls’, pointing out: “We all make mistakes and no harm has been done.
“I don’t know if it’s a wind-up, but they’ve told me a woman has booked in to have ‘Denis’ spelt out on her midriff with crystals.
“Fingers crossed...”
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For the sake of the human race.....please,somebody tell me those 2 are blokes

 

[sla3]

The raw meat idea has struck a chord with me, sounds like a good idea.
I'm sure the owners want the best for there dogs and whats better to a dog than raw meat!

Oh lord: many many things! Dogs are primarily carnivorous ominivores, but are designed for gorging and starving. Bring down their prey in a pack, eat as much as possible as quickly as possible, sleep it off and maybe catch the next beast a week later. They eat the guts preferentially, and thereby pick up their 'trace' nutrients. Heart, lungs and liver next, brain before carcase (red) meat. They are not designed for having handfuls of red meat each day.

Too much (red) meat will give them too much protein which will adversely and severely affect kidneys and liver in older age. Because we feed dogs daily (or many times daily) and want then to be 'social' we have to bulk-out their diet with e.g biscuit.

One of the very best 'meats' to feed to dogs in large amounts almost as a complete diet is green tripe. Unwashed tripe: full of whatever the cow last ate. I used to feed my Great Danes on it with added biscuit for missing vitamins and minerals. It came in 1lb frozen blocks and stank like hell when defrosted in the microwave when I forgot to take some out of the freezer the previous day. It stank like hell when normally defrosted too The dogs loved it.

I think the EU banned it ....

 

[catsandcanines]

You can compete to an extent with the likes of P @ H online. They didn't even have an online shop until about 2006-7. Although they are always top of google UK.

I think you have to sell niche products and not general products such as pet food. There isn't much of a markup on pet food for the small, independant online retailer in order to compete with the bigger companies.

The UK online pet supplies market is very saturated now. When I first started in the online side I think there was about 100 of us. Now theres 100's of 1000's - in fact when you google pet supplies UK you get 29,900,000 results. I realise not all of them are businesses (some are directories etc.)

Its really hard to get to page one of google for search terms because the competition is really high. You have thousands of businesses competing for terms.

Do your keyword research and make a clear website with good content. Something I'm working on all the time.

 

[mdjo]

Im just 8 weeks into a independent pet food store (b&m and online). We're shaping our proposition to be niche rather than mainstream. Food wise, not a lot of margin in the bif volume lines, maybe 10-15% depending on local market conditions. Had opp to do a deal with a cattery just last week..couldn't buy mainstream cat food brands cheaper than tescos were retailing at (tesco £6, my best price to buy £6.60). Pets at home and jolleys are shaping out of town pet retailing, so difficult to crack that market. We do home delivery, offering an advantage vs oscars in that customers retain choice, but not a huge market. We're lucky that our goegraphical location overlays the proposition.. Its hard work, but the 'right' consumers are prepared to spend on the best for their pets.

 

[Fank PDH]

This year in dragons' den, Deborah invested £60k on a dog ice cream business. This industry is quite fragmented, it might be easy to get in but the competition is huge! So either the product is niche, or beat the price of pet's at home, the second is not really an option though

 

[Rasta Pickles]

Jelly.

I have lost count of the number of animals I've owned that will lick the jelly off of the meat and leave a load of dried up meat flakes.

It has always amazed me why someone hasn't started producing just pouches of jelly.

You've got a massive variety of flavours to choose from and it should only cost a fraction of a penny to produce a pouch.

The markup would be phenomenal.

 

[moorland72]

i am looking to set up an online business selling rabbit food, toys and treat etc, just wondering where the best place to buy the stock from is??

have a few suppliers lined up but be good to get some more

thanks,