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When To Expect Your Delivery (ex. Bank Holidays)
If you select one of our next working day delivery options, below is a rough guide of when you can usually expect to receive delivery (apart from bank holidays). Please note that this is not guaran...
What temperature is your food cooked at?
Our raw food range is completely uncooked apart from the butternut squash. Our wet food is cooked in the tin at 130°c for 20 minutes (at 3bar pressure). Details of our extrusion process for our ext...
Raw food packaging
We use plastic trays with film coverings and c-wrap labels. The trays we use are widely used within the raw food industry and are non-resealable. We recommend using a resealable food bag to defrost...
Legumes & Sweet Potato
We use a small number of legumes in our dry kibble recipes to bind the kibble together. This predominantly consists of sweet potato which is a particularly good source of vitamin A (beta-carotene) ...
Taurine
Taurine is an amino acid naturally found in meat and fish. Our foods are high in taurine-rich ingredients, so dogs obtain plenty from their diet.In our cat foods, taurine is added due to regulatory...
Ash Levels in Dry Kibble
Please see the below article about ash by AllAboutDogFood. Unfortunately vets only receive a few hours nutrition training funded by cereal-biased blue chip companies. If you are still concerned abo...
My dog is drinking a lot of water
Unlike other brands that use ingredients like rice that swell and retain water, Akela is grain-free and only has a moisture content of around 8%. Fresh water should always be available. Other optio...
Sponsorship
As I'm sure you can appreciate, we receive several requests for sponsorship all the time. The way we assess potential sponsorships is based on referrals. Please join our affiliate scheme via the li...
Sodium Selenite
Like most dry kibble manufacturers, we use a trace amount of sodium selenite within our minerals premix to ensure that there is a sufficient level of selenium within the food (which is an essential...
How much Omega 3 per day?
To calculate the amount of Omega 3 (or other constituent in our food) one can lookup the percentage in the analysis tab and multiply it by the daily feed. For example, our Fish Feast recipe contain...