Our Story

Two physicians, one Cane Corso, one ingredient.

Everything about Dogtors Orders started the way most useful things do — with a problem in our own house, and no commercial option good enough to solve it.

The quality bar

Nova.

Nova is our Cane Corso. She is large, she is opinionated, and for the first eighteen months of her life she spent most of her meals looking at us as if to ask whether we were quite sure this was what we meant to serve her.

We tried the commercial aisle. We tried the "premium" commercial aisle. We read the ingredient lists and watched them stretch to a dozen items — binders, glycerin, "natural flavor," preservatives we'd spent medical school learning to avoid in humans. When we finally just dehydrated a chicken breast ourselves and put it in front of her, she ate it in about two seconds and has eaten every single-ingredient treat we've made since.

So she's the quality bar. If she doesn't eat it, it doesn't ship. That's not a marketing line — it's how we actually run the kitchen.

The morning Nova refused her usual food, we sliced a chicken breast thin and dried it overnight in our oven. She finished the tray before the next batch was done. We've been making treats this way ever since.

Nova, the Cane Corso, sitting regally in a canoe wearing a sage-green life vest with a forested lake behind her
The founders

We spend our days thinking about how food shapes a body.

Dennis smiling in a sunny grass field with Nova, their Cane Corso, leaning against him
Jasmine smiling in a sunny grass field with Nova, their Cane Corso, leaning against her shoulder

We're Dennis and Jasmine. We're both board-certified in family medicine and we practice in urgent-care settings in California. Medicine, for both of us, is a long game — the kind where what a patient eats, how they sleep, and what they do on a Tuesday matter more over ten years than almost anything we can prescribe.

We're honestly not doing anything exotic with Dogtors. We're doing for Nova what we'd do for any patient of ours who asked about diet: keep it simple, keep it clean, avoid things that have no reason to be there. The entire premise of the brand is that a treat should contain exactly one thing — and that thing should be something you could trace back to an animal or a field without three steps of processing in between.

As family physicians, we understand the importance of healthy food in promoting longevity and happiness. These treats are our little secret to keeping Nova healthy, happy, and strong.

So this is a small operation, and we'd like it to stay small enough that the two of us still slice every batch, pack every pouch, and sign every card. The moment we can't do that is the moment we'd rather not be doing it at all.

Our standards

What a Dogtors bag always is — and never is.

Always
  • One ingredient per bag.
  • Hand-sliced by us.
  • Dehydrated overnight at low temperature.
  • Packed and sealed by hand.
  • Signed by Dennis and Jasmine before it leaves.
  • Approved by Nova.
Never
  • Preservatives.
  • Binders or fillers.
  • Glycerin.
  • "Natural flavor" — whatever that is.
  • Claims we can't stand behind.
  • Factory-run at scale. If we can't touch it, we don't make it.
Where we are now

Soft launch.

Today, treats ship as free gifts to friends. One item is on the shelf — our sticker pack. We're working our way through Commercial Feed licensing, AAFCO labeling, and the paperwork that makes a food brand legitimate. When it's all in place, we'll open The Kitchen properly. Until then, the best way to get a bag is to say hi.

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