While our animal labor beliefs prohibit actual animals from blogging here, we’re honored to be nominated!

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Alongside other successful businesses like Border Grill and YogaFit, Halo, Purely for Pets was named a Top-10 Lesbian Owned Business by Curve Magazine. Thanks to Halo co-owner Ellen DeGeneres’ human rights advocacy, and Halo’s unmatched holistic pet products, Halo made the grade as one of “10 great companies with a history of having made an impact.”

Curve quoted Ellen, saying, “A few years ago, I was looking for some pet food for one of my dogs, who was allergic to everything… I found a little company that had the perfect food for him.” Then, as the article puts it, “She bought the food – and part of the company.”

We’re honored to be chosen!

Click here for a link to the whole story.

We know how great our VitaGlo Dream Coat is.

Vitamin Retailer, the bible for retail sales, thinks so too, and named Dream Coat the top animal health supplement of 2009!

Click here to read more.

We especially love when consumers are the judges, which is the case for the Zootoo.com Pet Lover Choice Awards. We’re proud that Halo Spot’s Stew for cats was named “the best of the best in the pet world as chosen by hundreds of thousands of pet lovers in the Zootoo.com community.”

Halo’s won a number of awards recently, and I’ve been slow to fill y’all in on them. But more soon, I promise! Meanwhile, here’s where you can learn more about our holistic, natural cat food.

We’re thankful and honored for the attention the pet industry has shown Halo of late. As you may know, it’s taken a couple decades for the pet industry to really become interested in real, natural ingredients in food for pets. In fact, way back in the 1980’s, Halo wasn’t even sold in pet stores – only natural food stores had the vision to carry Halo products.

Most recently, Halo co-owner Ellen DeGeneres was honored by the Global Pet Expo – the industry’s largest annual trade show – with the prestigious “Excellence in Pet Industry Journalism Award.”

You can find the link to Ellen’s acceptance speech here:

The Global Pet Expo press release explains, “In 2008, DeGeneres took her love for pets a step further with the purchase of her own pet product company, Halo Purely for Pets, a manufacturer that promotes the need for healthy, all natural, high-grade ingredients in dog food.”

Further, Bob Vetere, President of the American Pet Products Association, said, “Ellen is one of those rare individuals who can take a situation, even a negative one, and turn it into a positive. For all that she has done to raise awareness for pet adoptions, we are truly grateful. We are thrilled to honor her for her commitment and contributions to the pet industry.”