It was one year ago this week that we reported the first hints of headwinds for pet insurer Trupanion. It was a seemingly innocuous story about the company’s attempt to improve its online engagement with a social media event that not only failed to improve Trupanion’s web conversion, which is, […]
CEO Refuses to Disclose Dollar Amounts Earned From Individual Pet Food Brands “I would not consider a human dentist who has read a lot of dog food packages qualified to assess the quality of commercial pet foods,” veterinary nutritionist Lisa Weeth wrote to an online discussion on the Veterinary Information […]
Seattle-based, “vet-centric” pet insurer Trupanion’s leaders often like to underscore that the company does not participate in “pay to play” marketing tactics. Trupanion’s leaders enjoy talking about ethics, transparency, and more transparency. For the second year in a row, the company has decided to market itself to the veterinary profession, […]
“Martha Stewart” Pet Food has the blessing of veterinarians – but which ones? Ms. Stewart deserves credit for being the only person on the planet who has figured out how to make Katonah, which is part of the Town of Bedford, a fascinating place to live. For those of us who […]
FDA spokesperson Anne Norris alerted reporters late Wednesday afternoon to inform them that the agency was issuing an “advisory” in light of the fact that the pet food company, Arrow Reliance, had so far declined to issue a recall of its product thought to be contaminated with salmonella, Darwin’s Natural […]
A must-read pet insurance deep dive from the preeminent Gretchen Morgenson citing a bit of our Trupanion reporting. Thank you for the shout out!
Jean Dodds is back in the spotlight. That’s because The Canine Review is reviving the deluge of public records requests, inquiries to Dodds’ colleagues, clients, and former associates; in short, we are starting fresh. The California Veterinary Medical Board issued Ms. Jean Dodds a Cease and Desist order on […]
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