Our raw food is made to be as convenient as possible. You store your dogs meals in the freezer, and defrost overnight in the fridge. You then simple serve them their required amount (use our raw food calculator above to know how much your dog needs).

It's important, with any dog food, to make sure you're being as hygenic as possible, especially when handling raw meat. We recommend defrosting your tubs either on a plate or in a small tub, to make sure any minor leakages as it defrosts are caught. Make sure to wipe surfaces after serving your dogs meal, and keep their feeding space and bowl clean.

We encourage all owners to give there dogs a varied diet... exposure to different textures, tastes and smells is great and mixing proteins will help reduce potential food intollerances.

With raw feeding, as the meal is completely unprocessed it is digested quicker than dry or wet food. We therefore recommend, if you are going to feed a combination of raw and kibble that is done as two seperate meals, e.g. kibble in the morning and raw for dinner.

However a raw diet is completely balanced and nutritious, so if your dog loves our raw food, it's best for them if they only eat raw.

Your Billy + Margot raw food should be frozen when you purchase, and needs to be stored in the freezer until ready to use.

Our tubs are made to easily stack and a typical freezer drawer should fit approx. 5KG.

Simply defrost each tub, or a few at a time depending how much your dog eats per day, in the fridge overnight. Once defrosted we recommened using these meals within 3 days.

We understand how switching your dog or puppy from one food to another can be daunting. There are different ways you can approach how you switch your dog onto raw food... so it’s best to choose the approach that works best for your dog, your schedule, lifestyle and what you’re comfortable with.

Once you’ve made the switch, we recommend feeding your dog one protein (starting with chicken or turkey), over a few days to determine whether there are any issues (looking out for soft stools and itching). Once you’re happy, you can then try another protein until they’ve tried the whole range. Variety is key when feeding a raw diet and we recommend feeding at least 4 proteins over each week.

A STRAIGHT SWITCH

In most cases dogs will empty their bowl first time, the smell, taste and variety they get from raw food means appetite doesn’t tend to be an issue. A straight switch is as simple as it sounds, remove their old food, and feed their recommended amount of Billy + Margot raw the next day. You can add a probiotic to their meals over the first few days just to settle their stomachs if needed.

A GRADUAL SWITCH

If you think your dog is a little fussy to new textures or tastes, or is known to have an easily upset stomach, a gradual transition to raw food may be your best choice. We recommend doing this over four days, feeding ¼ of your raw on the first day and gradually increasing the amount of raw food in the bowl until they’re eating only raw. You can extend this transition time to one week if you feel it’s needed

Our plastic tubs are made from POP (prevented ocean plastics). This means we utilise plastic materials collected from coastal towns across the globe to make use of plastic that would have otherwise ended up in our oceans.

These tubs encourage a circular economy, as each tubs is made from POP but is also fully recyclable (just make sure to give it a quick rinse before popping into the recycling bin).

Our cardboard sleeves are also fully recyclable.