Pets With Expensive Tastes
Let's face it, our pets have us wrapped around their little paws. We often treat them better than we treat ourselves. We care about their health and diets, making sure they're getting all the right nutrients in their tasty meals. The pet food market knows we'll do anything for our fur babies and these gourmet pet foods might actually be better than people food.
1. Instinct Raw Real Beef Recipe
If your dog is your best friend then why wouldn’t you treat them to gourmet burgers? Cut their cravings with America’s favorite meal for your pet. Instinct is a raw pet food brand that makes patties for dogs with real non-GMP beef and other natural ingredients. You could throw a patty between two buns and wouldn’t know it was meant for dogs.
2. Merrick Backcountry Freeze-Dried Red Recipe
Merrick is a pet food brand catering to pooches with special high-end diets. Even their dried food is made with higher quality ingredients than most human snack foods at the supermarket. With raw and freeze-dried meats of deboned beef, lamb, and rabbit, this grain-free kibble is one for the riches.
3. Orijen Regional Red Dog Food
If you want to treat your domesticated pet like a ruler of the wild, this kibble is for a wolf king. This food is a mix of wild game meat and fish coated with liver. It’s a true hunter’s medley including wild boar, goat, grass-fed lamb, and wild-caught mackerel. Have you ever had a dish with even two out of the four of these at one meal?
4. The Honest Kitchen Grain-Free Fish Recipe
The Honest Kitchen’s Fish Recipe is like someone took home a “doggy bag” of leftovers from a fine dining seafood restaurant. Made with wild-caught white fish and fresh fruit and vegetables, you might as well tie a linen napkin around your dog’s neck and make space for them at the table.
5. JustFoodForDogs Fresh Frozen Dog Food
Their name might claim that it’s “just food for dogs” but the ingredient list would have you thinking otherwise. It’s made with fresh and human-grade ingredients like lean ground venison, butternut squash, brussels sprouts, and cranberries. It sounds like a fancy Thanksgiving dinner that you could easily mistake for a frozen meal from a specialty food store.
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6. Nom Nom Personalized Dog Food
Nom Nom is a dog food service that personalizes meal plans for individual dogs. Could we assume these dogs are getting better treatment and nutrition than your average human? The company packs meals with fresh ingredients for every dietary need of your dog.
7. Ziwi Peak New Zealand Venison Recipe
It’s not likely that you’ll find a canned item at the grocery store that’s this expensive. Ziwi Peak’s wet canned dog food is made with free-range venison from New Zealand without any artificial flavors, colors, or grains. It’s advertised to contain 91% muscle and organ meat, which must be all the rage at the dog gym.
8. K9 Natural Beef Feast
New Zealand likes to spoil their pooches. It’s a raw freeze-dried dog food made with a beefy mix of meat, bone, blood, and organs creating a nutrition-packed power meal. While 85% is free-range grass-fed beef, the rest is made from fresh fruits and veggies.
9. Ultimate Pet Nutrition Nutra Complete
As one of the most expensive pet foods on the shelves, Nutra Complete is completely gourmet. If it wasn’t for them advertising their veterinarian-designed formula, you’d think it was for a health-conscious yogi. Your dog’s gut health will be optimal with this 100% freeze-dried kibble that’s pumped with amino acids, antioxidants, and prebiotics.
10. The Farmer’s Dog Personalized Meal Plans
The Farmer’s Dog is another company that makes personalized meal plans for doggies. Made with human-grade food in human-friendly packages, these portion-sized meals are as good, if not better, than people food. You can create a vet-designed plan customizable to your dog’s breed and health concerns.
11. Kent Active Dog Food
For just under $400 USD for a 40-pound bag, you can feed your dog like an Olympic athlete. Catering to highly active dogs, this dry food claims to be infused with healthy fats, dietary fiber, essential micro-nutrients, and quality proteins. This healthy food promotes immune system function and weight management.
12. A Pup Above Turkey Pawella Recipe
This cleverly named dog food is a prime example of gourmet better-than-people-food pet foods. To echo a classic human dish, the turkey “pawella” is made with cage-free turkey and vegetables cooked in nutritious bone broth. With a meal like this, it must be for dogs watching their figure.
13. Raised Right Puppy Growth Beef Recipe
As their name implies, this brand is all about raising your puppies very well. With this home-cooked-meal-style pet food, you’ll be treating your puppy better than a newborn baby. Made with high-end beef, berries, and vegetables, this dish is a low-carb dog dinner fit for humans.
14. Spot & Tango Unkibble Chicken & Brown Rice
With “unkibble” in the name, Spot & Tango are making it obvious how human-worthy their pet food is. They even took it up a notch using nutritious brown rice instead of white. With simple, wholesome ingredients like this, you could easily munch on these dog treats like they were made for humans.
15. We Feed Raw Lamb Patty Recipe
We Feed Raw Lamb Patty Recipe is like a pate for dogs. It’s made with fresh lamb and beef meat without any fillers or preservatives. This gourmet doggy dish is fit for athletic canines and people on a keto diet.
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16. Open Farm Grass-Fed Beef Recipe
When your dog is eating grass-fed beef, you know they’ve got you wrapped around their paws. Open Farm’s dog food is marketed as human-grade quality with non-GMO fruits and vegetables and grain-free ingredients.
17.Open Farm Harvest Pate For Cats
It’s pate for cats. It’s fancy for people so that makes it extra fancy for felines. You can treat your kitty to a range of pates from chicken to salmon, all made with natural, quality raw meat.
18. Smalls Food For Cats
Smalls’ wet-style cat food comes in a range of animal meats that are advertised as “smooth”. It’s like the took meat and made it into a soft and spreadable delicacy for kittens. From “smooth bird” to “smooth pig” cats have all the tasty options.
19. JustFoodForCats Fish & Chicken Recipe
A package of JustFoodForCats Fish & Chicken Recipe looks like the contents of a chicken salad sandwich. Made entirely out of ingredients a human could eat, it’s not really just food for cats. However, the brand did carefully select cat favorites like sardines and chicken liver.
20. Portland Pet Food Company Salmon N’ Pumpkin
Portland Pet Food Company wants to upgrade your cat’s bowl with their Salmon n’ Pumpkin meal pouches. Treat your whiskered prince or princess to a gourmet fish dinner made from wild salmon, fresh pumpkin, and other human-worthy ingredients.
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