Canadian dog food brands
Dog food is where "Canadian" gets murkiest. A brand can be owned in Canada and manufactured in the United States, or owned by a multinational and produced in an Ontario plant. Those are different facts and this page keeps them apart. Each brand below carries its ownership and its manufacturing separately, with the source we checked and the date we checked it.
Three different questions
A Canadian company is not the same thing as a Canadian-made product, and neither is the same thing as a foreign product you can buy from a Canadian shop. We record those separately for every brand, because collapsing them into one label is how buyers get misled. Where a company has not said something, we say that instead of guessing.
16 brands with a Canadian connection
Corey Nutrition
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Canadian-owned, made in Canada.
Yes. Corey Nutrition is a family-owned company based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and it manufactures its pet food in its own facility there. It describes itself as Atlantic Canada’s only commercial pet food manufacturer.
Evolution Raw Pet Food
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canadian-owned, made in Canada.
Evolution Raw is a family owned and operated raw pet food business in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, producing its food in Saskatoon and sourcing its meats from Canadian farms. It states all three facts plainly on its own site, which makes it the least ambiguous record in this set.
FirstMate Pet Foods
Chilliwack, British Columbia
Canadian-owned, made in Canada.
FirstMate is a Chilliwack, British Columbia pet food maker that owns and operates both its dry production facility and a human-grade cannery, rather than contracting manufacturing out. A British Columbia government export catalogue confirms the plants and describes the business as family-owned, founded by Michael Florian in 1989. Manufacturing is the strongest-evidenced claim on this page; ownership rests on the company being described as family-owned rather than on a shareholder record.
Horizon Pet Nutrition
Rosthern, Saskatchewan
Canadian-owned, made in Canada.
Yes. Horizon is owned by three Saskatchewan owners and manufactures in plants it owns and operates in Rosthern, Saskatchewan. Its ingredient sourcing claim is North American rather than Canadian, which is a meaningful difference.
Smack Pet Food
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canadian-owned, made in Canada.
Canadian company in Winnipeg, and it says its food is made in Canada, but only on a promotional line. We could not find a page on its own site naming the facility where the food is produced.
Open Farm
Toronto, Ontario
Canadian-owned, partly made in Canada.
Canadian company, largely not Canadian manufacturing. Open Farm states it is a Canadian company headquartered in Toronto, and that its own manufacturing facility is in the United States. It says it also partners with facilities in Canada and Iceland, but does not say which product lines are made where.
Rolf C. Hagen Inc.
Baie-d’Urfé, Quebec
Canadian-owned, partly made in Canada.
Nutrience is a brand of Rolf C. Hagen Inc., a Quebec company founded in 1955 and now in its second generation of family ownership, with its head office in Baie-d’Urfé. This is one company record rather than a separate Nutrience entry, because the Canadian facts belong to Hagen. Manufacturing is partial: the company describes a British Columbia kitchen it part-owns, and it also operates a pet food plant in Waverly, New York, so a blanket made-in-Canada claim across every Nutrience product would overstate what the company says.
Big Country Raw
Smithville, Ontario
Ownership not stated, made in Canada.
Yes for manufacturing. Big Country Raw states that it produces all of its raw pet food in Smithville, Ontario. Its founders are named on its About page, but it does not use the words family-owned or independent, so we have not stated its ownership structure.
Bold by Nature
Erin, Ontario
Partly Canadian-owned, made in Canada.
Bold by Nature produces raw pet food in its own 25,000 square foot facility in Erin, Ontario. Its homepage carries a "made in usa" badge alongside a "proudly canadian" one, which looks like a contradiction and is not: the company’s own FAQ shows the American reference is the origin of two ingredients, duck and fish, rather than a second plant. Ingredient sourcing is documented protein by protein, which is unusually specific for this category.
Canadian Supreme Pet Foods
Ownership not stated, made in Canada.
Canadian Naturals is a brand of Canadian Supreme Pet Foods, which cooks its food at an SQF3 and HACCP certified plant it calls the West Coast Kitchen, in Abbotsford, British Columbia. We record no head office city or province: the plant location is documented but the company publishes no corporate address, and its About page returns a 404. Ownership is unstated for the same reason. The phrase "100% family owned" tells us the company is not publicly traded and nothing about where its owners are.
Carna4
Toronto, Ontario
Ownership not stated, made in Canada.
Carna4 is a Toronto pet food company that states its food is made in Canada. The Toronto-or-Calgary question that blocked this record on 2026-08-30 is settled: three Carna4-controlled sources give a Toronto corporate address. Ownership is a separate matter and remains unstated. The company describes itself as family-owned but does not say where the owning family is, and no registry search succeeded, so we do not record a Canadian ownership claim.
Healthy Paws Pet Food
Smithville, Ontario
Partly Canadian-owned, made in Canada.
Healthy Paws Pet Food is a raw pet food maker in Smithville, Ontario. It states that its food is made in Canada and that most of its meats, fruits and vegetables come from local Canadian farms. Note the word most: the company itself scopes that claim and does not name the exceptions, which is why ingredients are recorded as partial rather than yes. This company is unrelated to the American pet insurance business of the same name.
Iron Will Raw Inc.
St. Catharines, Ontario
Ownership not stated, made in Canada.
Iron Will Raw produces its raw dog food at a HACCP-certified facility in St. Catharines, Ontario, and states so directly. Ownership is a different matter and we record it as unstated: the company was founded by Matt Bonanno and its About page still describes him leading it, while his LinkedIn title reads former CEO. That is a question about an officer, not about shareholding, so neither source tells us who owns the company.
Red Dog Blue Kat
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Ownership not stated, made in Canada.
Yes for manufacturing. Red Dog Blue Kat makes its raw food in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. The company has taken outside growth investment led by Forage Capital Partners; it describes this as a funding round, not an acquisition, and does not state the size of the stake.
Petcurean
Ownership not stated, partly made in Canada.
Partly. Petcurean states that its Go! Solutions and Now Fresh dry kibble is manufactured in Canada by Elmira Pet Products, while its wet food is made in Wisconsin, its Boosters in Thailand and its Benefit Chews in Illinois. Whether a Petcurean product is made in Canada depends entirely on which product you buy.
Royal Canin
Guelph, Ontario
Not Canadian-owned, partly made in Canada.
No, and yes, depending which question you are asking. Royal Canin is owned by Mars, so it is not a Canadian company. But it built a factory and its Canadian head office in Guelph, Ontario in 2008, and says that plant makes dry cat and dog food. It is a foreign-owned brand with real Canadian manufacturing, which is exactly the case a simple Canadian or not-Canadian label gets wrong.
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Know a brand we are missing?
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