Have you heard about the new Canine Cafe™ Dinners from Bravo®? I’ve heard a lot of good things about Bravo foods and treats, but I’ve never tried out their products. The day my doorbell rang and I found these cases of Canine Cafe, I was excited to finally try this brand of healthy, all natural food. I did need some help getting it all to the kitchen, though.
Bravo has their slogan “make good happen®” for good reason! Bravo is a family owned business located in Connecticut. They were pioneers in the raw pet food sector in 2002 when then introduced their Bravo Blends Line. Today they offer over 125 different dog and cat products, all made from the finest, most nutritious ingredients such as antibiotic-free poultry, responsibly harvested fish and select cuts of meat. The Canine Cafe dinners just won the 2015 Pet Industry Recognition Award for canned dog food, so I know it is good stuff!
We are not on a raw diet at my house…yet, but we have switched to very healthy foods and we are eating a rotation diet. We eat two brands of high quality grain free raw infused kibble which have six recipes to rotate through, and we use wet food as a topper/mixer with our meals. The Canine Cafe dinners should be a perfect fit in our diet. A dog could use the Canine Cafe dinners as their entire meal but my mom likes us to have dry kibble as well.
My sisters and I are going to be testing out the Bravo Canine Cafe dinners for the next two months. I will be posting in April and then again in May to let you know how our trial is working out for us. I will also be holding a giveaway of Canine Cafe dinners in each of those posts so some other lucky pups will get a chance to try these meals. Because Canine Cafe dinners are 100% nutritionally complete and balanced, they are appropriate for dogs of all ages and breeds.
One of the first things we noticed when we read the ingredients on one of the cans was the first ingredients are all meat! The meals are made with cuts of real meat or poultry, are grain and gluten free, and are fortified with cranberries, garden greens, salmon oil, green lipped mussels, and turmeric. Bravo uses no artificial preservatives, flavors, or colors, and abstains from questionable ingredients like guar, carrageenan, and cassia gums.
There are six varieties of Canine Cafe dinners. I opted to try out four of them. For my first test, no surprise, I chose the Rabbit, Pork & Liver Dinner for dogs. I was thrilled to read the rabbit actually comes from France, since I’m a French Scent Hound who loves to hunt rabbit! The other ingredients come from the USA.
The cans are easy open, easy serve, pull tab cans. Once the lid was off, my mouth was in the can! Boy, it smelled wonderful as it should, being 95% meat!
Mom put some in my bowl so I could really get a good taste. We will need to portion out the right amount to add to our dry food at mealtimes to keep our calories at the right level. It looks like a can of the rabbit dinner has about 466 calories per can. They also have feeding guidelines on the can by the size of the dog. I was so into the meal, I could not come up for air, let alone a better photo!
My mean mother took the can away from me because it wasn’t technically my mealtime. She held it up, and my tongue sprung into action!
The first evening my sisters and I each got our portion of Canine Cafe dinner mixed in with our dry kibble, and I have to say we all give it four paws up. It tastes fantastic! We are looking forward to trying out the other meat dinners as well as the meat and poultry fricassees. I’ll be reporting back to you on the other varieties in my next two posts.
Has your dog tried Bravo foods or treats before? Do you think they would enjoy the Canine Cafe Dinners? You know, no matter what, I know my favorite will be the rabbit dinner, but which one of the flavors would your dog love the most?
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It sounds yummy. Bravo, Emma! You find the BEST food. XOXO Sparkle
A scent hound can sniff out the best of the best easily…I’m sure you are the same!
Katie is allergic to EVERYTHING. She can only eat vension. Bravo makes the best vension treats. We love them. We wish they would make vension food.
Wow! Now that would be a tough thing to deal with. We love venison, but it is hard to find.
I wouldn’t mind trying that stuff
Snorts,
Lily & Edward
You would love it. Mom was shocked at how fast we cleaned out bowls with the rabbit recipe we tried.
no wonder that you liked it, it looks great! and much better than some things for humans what come in cans… dig in and enjoy efurry little bit :O)
My mom always says we eat a lot better than she does.
Tres Bien Emma! You are very good at these reviews. I can’t eat chicken so this looks like they might have a good alternative for me. Thanks to you guys, we tried Merrick a while ago. Now mom can put this on the list too. Have a good day, your doodle friend Dash
We ate just one dry kibble brand for years, but then we heard about rotation diets, and toppers and our interest was peaked. When Katie stopped wanting to eat, we switched to the rotation kibble with wet food toppers to keep her eating. We all really love it and it should help keep us from developing sensitivities to just one food or protein. Give Canine Cafe a try, I know you guys will love it!
You guys are STOCKED! With all the food/treats you test, I think you’ll need to start making breakfast/lunch/dinner posts every day. Enjoy!
Mom says I’m in charge of providing food and treats for my sisters and me. I do the best I can to wade through the deep seas of pet food to find the ones that are the best tasting, most healthy, and fit the diet we want to eat. So far, I think I’m doing a pretty good job.
THAT sounds Delicious. WE get Wet food on our Dry Kibble every evening fur our Supper… Just like YOU do.
Isn’t it the best way to have a good meal! This Canine Cafe is super tasty. You should give it a try!
We could add those to our Dr. Harvey’s for the protein source with 95% meat! Yummers. ☺ I love rabbit too. Watch out Easter Bunny! LOL!
Those wabbits only have a few days left and then it is hunting season once again! In the meantime, I’m enjoying hunting my cans of Canine Cafe! You should stick some on your Dr. Harvey’s dinner, it would be fabulous!
It’s fantastic to see Bravo! expanding their food options. Although our dogs don’t eat commercial pet food, it’s nice to know that if I were to stop feeding raw, there is a reputable brand that I love and respect that will help me keep my dogs healthy.
We don’t do the raw…yet…maybe one day, I can feel Mom tipping that direction, but in the meantime, we are excited to be able to get Bravo wet food to use as a topper on our meals. It is really tasty food and, of course, healthy too.
Bravo seems like the purrfect word gang!
It really is. Good point.
One question: Do ALL the cans have salmon oil in them? If so, Shadow won’t touch the food. She hates both the taste AND smell of fish. I’ve tried Omegease on her food for the fatty acids, but she takes one sniff and walks away even if she’s hungry. And the Omegease doesn’t smell all that “fishy” to me.
All the cans I have to say salmon oil. I’m real picky about food and don’t like sweet potatoes, but I do eat them when they are blended in. I could see not liking the Omegease as it does have a slightly fishy smell and it is just on top of the food. Mom says she would try a can and see how Shadow does because the main ingredients are the meats and the salmon oil is such a small part and is blended in. We totally get the picky eater, since I am one too.
This looks like a great foodable! We always love when you put on your french wardrobe!
Smileys!
Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo
French Scent Hound, testing food with French wabbit, it was a must I thought.
Oh awesome! I didn’t know Bravo had canned food!
They didn’t, but the Canine Cafe is their new line trying to create products for all cats and dogs. So far, it is a winner!
The food sounds awesome and as always your pictures are so adorable! I’m glad you (and Bert?) will be feasting well for a few months.
My sisters and I will, Bert, not so sure. He tries, but Bailie is a watch dog over the food bowls so his chances are slim for stealing any of this good food!
Shiner hasn’t tried them yet, but we want to!
Oh Shiner, you would love the Canine Cafe Dinners. So far I’ve only tried the rabbit recipe, but it is something we all go wild for!
OMD, I don’t know what looks better you or the food!!! I think it is you! Love those glasses! 🙂
It’s my French Scent Hound professor look.
The crew loves turkey, so turkey fricassee sounds the best to us! We haven’t really settled on a favorite canned food yet, so we’ll be watching for your giveaways – we’d definitely like to give Bravo a try.
Mom is still in shock at how we are all gobbling down the rabbit variety. Even Katie who isn’t wanting to eat much lately, cleans her bowl.
wowzers that’s many cases of goodness.
As you know with multiple dogs, it disappears pretty fast.
That looks super yummy!
My mom is amazed at how crazy we all are for it!