Background: ownership, sourcing and positioning
Applaws and Big Dog offer two different approaches to the Australian cat food market. Applaws built its name on simple wet recipes that lead with a named whole-muscle protein such as tuna fillet or chicken breast in broth or jelly, with very high dry-matter protein. Big Dog builds its recipes from named meat, offal and ground bone with whole-food vegetables, kelp and marine algae rather than a synthetic premix. The two brands differ in several ways beyond the one point highlighted here.
Applaws cans most of its Australian wet range in Thailand while making its Vitality dry food in Australia, and is sold through Pet Circle, Petbarn, Petstock and pet specialty retailers. It is a British brand founded in 2006 around a high-meat-content, natural positioning with named ingredients and no synthetic additives.
Big Dog is made in Queensland as raw frozen patties, across five mixed-protein cat recipes of meat, offal, bone and fresh whole foods. It is an early Australian pioneer of the BARF raw feeding movement, now widely stocked frozen through major and independent retailers.
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