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MAKING SPOT’S STEW WITH HALO’S FOUNDER ON PET LIFE TV

Caroline Chang — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:00:23 +0000

Pet Life TV ran a great piece featuring Halo’s founder, and how to make Halo Spot’s Stew at home.

Nearly 25 years ago, Andi Brown had a very sick cat named Spot. After a series of visits to multiple veterinarians failed to find a cure, the solution she discovered was a home-cooked stew, made with fresh chicken and vegetables. The elixir was aptly named, Spot’s Stew.

This video tells us how she started Halo, and how to make Spot’s Stew.

Watch her appearance in this video:

TRACIE HOTCHNER EXPLAINS HALO SPOT’S STEW RECIPE ON TV

Tracie Hotchner — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:00:45 +0000

PETCO sent me to Sacramento and Phoenix, to get on local TV and explain the recipe for Halo’s Spot’s Stew to Californians.

On ABC 15 (Arizona) TV appearance: I had so much fun going on the local lifestyle show, Sonoran Living in Phoenix, when PETCO sent me there to help get out the message about better natural nutrition for pets and share the HALO Spot’s Stew recipe for pet lovers to make at home.

Watch the TV Spot!

Tracie Hotchner, author of The Dog Bible and The Cat Bible, guest blogs here every Thursday on healthy, natural choices for pets.

HALO SPOT’S STEW AND TRACIE HOTCHNER ON ABC

David Yaskulka — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:00:50 +0000

Halo advocate and noted author Tracie Hotchner showed pet lovers how to cook Halo Spot’s Stew on ABC’s “Animal Instincts” show. The show featured tips from PETCO on keeping your pet healthy during the holidays, including cooking (or buying our all natural pet food) Spot’s Stew.

Click to our News page for the whole story.

BALTIMORE SUN UNLEASHES HALO TURKEY SPOT’S STEW RECIPE

David Yaskulka — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:00:24 +0000

Thanks to PETCO’s promotion and writer Jill Rosen’s great journalism, readers of the Baltimore Sun got some great Thanksgiving tips. One of those tips was how to prepare our classic Halo Spot’s Stew, Thanksgiving Style!

Click over to our News page to see the whole story.

NY PAPER SHARES HALO TURKEY SPOT’S STEW RECIPE

David Yaskulka — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:00:18 +0000

We’re thankful for the Lower Hudson Valley News spreading the word with tips from the ASPCA, advice from PETCO, and Halo’s Turkey Spot’s Stew recipe you can cook at home. Great for the December holidays, too!

Click over to our news page for the story.

PET-PERFECT THANKSGIVING FARE: MAKE THEM HALO TURKEY SPOT’S STEW

Dr. Donna Spector — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:00:08 +0000

If you’re considering cooking that perfect Thanksgiving feast for your dog or cat, make sure they’re getting good nutrition from the right ingredients. How about making them Halo Spot’s Stew, Thanksgiving-style?

Halo’s always given out its most famous recipe as a gift to those noble souls who cook for their pets. The original Halo Spot’s Stew calls for chicken (see the link below). But turkey and chicken have very similar protein, fat and calorie content. So they are interchangeable! So if you have some extra (or leftover) turkey, try substituting turkey for chicken in the recipe below. And Happy Thanksgiving!

Click here for the Original Halo Spot’s Stew recipe, and don’t be afraid to substitute turkey!

ANIMAL WELLNESS PUBLISHES HALO SPOT’S STEW RECIPE

David Yaskulka — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:00:13 +0000

Yes, we’re happy to give away our most famous recipe because it helps keep animals well! Loyal web site visitors knew they could always find the recipe for Halo Spot’s Stew on our free recipes page. But we’re thankful Animal Wellness magazine is helping spread the word. Here’s what their editor had to say:

“If you’re like us here at the magazine, you enjoy celebrating special occasions with your dog or cat. Halo, Purely for Pets sent us this healthy Thanksgiving recipe to try. It was originally formulated when company founder Andi Brown was struggling with healthy issues and looking for something she could make in her own kitchen using grocery store ingredients (yes, people can eat it too). Happy Thanksgiving!”

It warms our hearts when, like Andi for her cat Spot, people cook wholesome, nutritious meals for their four-legged loved ones. Of course, many of us rely on the chefs at Halo to do the cooking for them!

See the Halo News page for a link to the recipe in Animal Wellness.

HALO “YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT” PHILOSOPHY HIGHLIGHTED BY DOGASAUR

David Yaskulka — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:00:18 +0000

“Ellen became part owner with Halo in hopes of animals ‘becoming the healthiest they can be.’ You would not want to fill your own body with toxins, so why would you do it to your animals? Halo is one of the healthiest pet foods on the market right now,” according to Dogasaur.com. They also ask – and answer – the question asked by all of us who feed Halo: “Wouldn’t you feel better about feeding your pet food that you would actually eat? I know I would!”

Click here to read more.

YOGA TEACHER, PET STORE TOUT HALO FOR KITTY TUMMIES

Diane Herbst — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:00:16 +0000

When this blogger’s kitty was having gas issues, her pet store recommended Halo as a cure– and as you will read, it worked!

Click here to read blog.

CAT BIBLE AUTHOR SHOCKS AUDIENCE, RECOMMENDS HALO DRY FOOD FOR CATS

David Yaskulka — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:00:27 +0000

Renowned author and consumer advocate Tracie Hotchner, author of The Cat Bible and host of Cat Talk Radio, recently shocked her loyal audience by recommending a dry cat food: Halo Spot’s Stew. Just to be clear, Tracie (who is also known for The Dog Bible, Dog Talk Radio, and her appearances on Oprah), is an outspoken advocate of wet food for cats, and she’s long been a fan of Halo Spot’s Stew cans for cats, and Halo kibble for dogs. Certainly, none of that has changed.

But a series of earnest inquires from her loyal followers led Tracie to the conclusion that some cat lovers must feed dry food. And when that’s the case, she felt she owed it to her audience to make a recommendation. In her own words, “if circumstances require dry food, it’s time I told you what you’ve been waiting for: which dry food is best?”

It’s time I told you what you’ve been waiting for: Which dry food is best?

I’ll quote Tracie at length:

“I have recently been singing the praises of Halo’s Spot’s Stew. In fact, for the first time I have chosen it as the DOG food kibble that is head and shoulders above the others and which I am now feeding to my dogs as part of their daily meals. And the reason for the tap of the “Tracie Wand” is all about ingredients. For dogs we want a kibble made with the cleanest possible ingredients and with as high a protein content as possible – with cats this goes double, since their digestive systems are not designed for carbohydrates and they need real meat. Well that is what makes Halo’s Spot’s Stew in a class by itself. … Halo uses only meat that is “fit for human consumption” in their foods. Halo has made a moral decision that they will only use meat that people could eat…”

We’ve long been honored that Tracie Hotchner recommends Halo, and have recently become proud sponsors of her hugely informative web site. But this is an honor that we never expected. Thank you as always, Tracie, for helping consumer read (and understand) ingredients to make the best choices for their pets!

Read the whole story here on Tracie Hotchner’s blog.