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Big Dog Pet Foods
Big Dog
Independent · 5 listed
General Mills
Tiki Cat
Multinational · 20 listed
Formats represented
Big
raw frozen
Tiki
cannedkibble
Moisture · as fed
Big Dog
raw frozen
72
Tiki Cat
canned
78–83
kibble
10
0%20%40%60%80%
Shown as fed: the water actually in the food. The dry-matter rows below strip it out so protein and fat can be compared across formats.
Protein · dry matter
Big Dog
raw frozen
50
Tiki Cat
canned
4172
kibble
47–48
30%40%50%60%70%80%
Fat · dry matter
Big Dog
raw frozen
36
Tiki Cat
canned
1136
kibble
21
0%10%20%30%40%
Formats and figures reflect the products listed on KibbleGuide, not necessarily each brand’s full range.
Background: ownership, sourcing and positioning
Big Dog and Tiki Cat sit at opposite ends of the ownership spectrum in the Australian cat food market. Big Dog is an early Australian pioneer of the BARF raw feeding movement, now widely stocked frozen through major and independent retailers. Tiki Cat was founded in 2005 in California by Christine and Robert Hackett through their company Petropics; Christine drew on her PetCo research and development background to design an ultra-low-carbohydrate wet food. The founder stories remain central to how each brand still talks about itself today.
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.
Tiki Cat has most of its canned production made in Thai human-grade canning facilities that also produce human tuna; post-acquisition footprint now includes two Joplin Missouri plants. It is built around visible shredded or flaked whole proteins like ahi tuna and wild salmon in broth rather than pate or gravy, with many recipes carbohydrate-free.
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