About The Dog Chef

I’m Ann-marie Morgan, founder of The Dog Chef. As the proud mum of two beautiful dogs, I’m committed to improving the life of man’s best friend. I owe my life to my wonderful dog, Marco. His method of discovering my cancer may have been somewhat unconventional, but my clinicians are convinced that without his intervention, I would not be here today. Ten years later, I’m here because of him, and although he is no longer with me in person, everything I do today is in his memory! When Marco himself became ill as a youngster, it forced me to take a long hard look at how my husband and I were feeding him. I was simply appalled at the poor quality of commercial dog food. Mounting vet bills without resolution led me to conclude that improved food and not increasingly expensive medication was the answer to Marco’s health problems.

While I began to wean him off commercial pet food, my husband took up the study of canine nutrition and subsequently qualified as a dog nutritionist. The better we fed our boy, the healthier and stronger he became. He went on to become a happy, healthy, robust individual who never needed veterinary intervention again and who rewarded us for our efforts every day of his long life.

Throughout the course of our journey, I have witnessed first-hand how fresh food has the power to do more than simply sustain our dogs. I’ve also witnessed the tremendous sensory pleasure my dogs enjoy on cooking days. It’s something that can’t be derived from simply opening a bag of shop-bought food. It’s a palpable, long-lasting excitement that comes from knowing that something wonderful is happening — something wonderful they instinctively know involves them.

From the moment their pans come out of the cupboard, our dogs are on high alert. Their lives are enriched all day just knowing that something special is happening. They get not only to enjoy the taste of their food, they get to savour the entire journey from start to finish. From the sounds of preparation to the smells of cooking right through to the final joy of tasting. It’s what those who practice dog husbandry call sensory and nutritional enrichment. It’s a way of enhancing the lives of our companion animals who give us so much but ask so little in return.

I do hope you’ll join me in discovering that by enriching the life of your best friend, you’ll also greatly enrich your own. And that in so doing, you’ll improve the bond between you in a way that you might never have believed possible!