Girls Gone Raw

Girls Gone Raw

for cats & dogs

Why I recommend them

I don't send my community to just anyone with a cute logo and a bag of treats. Girls Gone Raw earned its spot because Lauren — the woman actually behind the brand — has a background in zoo and wildlife medicine and husbandry. She's not guessing at what a carnivore needs. She's spent her career studying it in animals who never had the luxury of a bag of kibble to begin with.

Everything GGR makes is small-batch, dehydrated in Ohio, and built around one question: what would this animal eat if the pet food aisle didn't exist? That's the same question I ask in every consult, and it's rare to find a brand that's actually building products around a dog or cats true nature. 

What makes them different

Most "natural" treat companies are co-packers with a nice label slapped on. Girls Gone Raw is Lauren, in Ohio, dehydrating in small batches and naming ingredients you can actually picture — not a receipt-length ingredient panel dressed up to look impressive.

A few things that set them apart:

  • Formulated through a food energetics lens. GGR educates, in part, with Traditional Chinese Medicine food energetics in mind — their quail egg powder, for example, is a balanced/neutral food, which matters a lot more than "high protein" once you're feeding for a specific pattern instead of a bag label.
  • Local sourcing, not a supply chain you can't trace. Ohio-farmed quail eggs, small-batch drying — Lauren can tell you exactly where an ingredient came from because she's usually the one who picked it up.
  • A brand partner community, not a walled garden. The Carnivore Crate rotates in products from other small, values-aligned brands instead of just pushing GGR's own products every month.

How they fit into the ReWilding model

ReWilding isn't about a specific ingredient list — it's about closing the distance between your pet and the animal they still are underneath the couch manners. Girls Gone Raw closes that distance in a very literal way: small-batch, minimally processed, prey-appropriate. A rabbit stick is a rabbit stick, not a "novel protein formula" engineered in a lab three states away.

The food-energetics approach behind their supplements is the same framework I lean on with clients — food as information for the body, not just calories in a bowl. If you're working with me on a TCVM-informed protocol, GGR's products are an easy, trustworthy way to bring that thinking into daily feeding instead of just supplement time.

Products I personally recommend

  • Quail Egg Powder — Ohio-farmed, dehydrated into an easy powder. A balanced/neutral food in TCM terms, so it plays well across a wide range of patterns, and it's an easy add for both dogs and cats regardless of what base diet they're on.
  • Prey Model Rabbit Stix — about as close to "this is what a carnivore eats" as a shelf-stable treat gets.
  • The Carnivore Crate — the easiest on-ramp if you want to explore GGR (and their brand partners) without picking one product at a time. Cancel or edit any time, so there's no real risk in trying it.

Hear more from Lauren

Lauren's been on The Pet Parenting Reset more than once, because she's one of the few guests I can hand a mic to and know we'll actually get somewhere real instead of a rehearsed pitch. If you want to hear her in her own words before you buy anything:

Cautions — who they're not right for

I recommend GGR often, but not to everyone, every time:

  • Not a same-day fix. Small-batch dehydration takes real time — plan for 7–14 days shipping, longer around holidays. If you need something tomorrow, this isn't your grab-and-go brand.
  • Chew size matters. Some chews run small to medium — if you've got a committed power-chewer, size up and supervise like you would with any raw chew.
  • This isn't a full diet on its own. Treats, chews, and meal toppers aren't a substitute for a properly balanced base diet. If your pet's whole bowl needs an overhaul, that's a conversation for a consult, not a treat aisle.
  • New to raw-adjacent feeding? Introduce anything new slowly, especially the rich stuff like bone broth and quail egg — same rule as any diet change, and the same thing I'd tell you to do with anything new in a session.

FAQ

Is this a full raw diet or a supplement line? Supplements, treats, and chews — meant to sit alongside a base diet (raw, cooked, or otherwise), not replace one.

Can cats have these too? Some products, like the quail egg powder, work for both. Larger chews are dog-focused — check each product page for species notes before feeding. My cats love the rabbit stix, carnibark, jerky and more!

Do I need to be a raw feeder to use these? No. The treats and egg powder are easy additions for kibble-fed pets who need more real food in the bowl, not just raw households.

Why does shipping take so long? Because it's actually small-batch. Some treats dry in under a day; others need 7–10 days to reach a shelf-stable moisture content. That's the tradeoff for something dehydrated properly instead of blasted through an industrial dryer.

Where is Girls Gone Raw based? Ohio — check their store locator if you'd rather grab products in person.

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