ABOUT US
Sunshine Pet Supplies is the Okanagan's longest running Natural Pet Food Store!
We Carry a large variety of Natural Dry and Raw pet foods : Natura products, Acana, Orijen, Pets Go Raw, Mountain Dog and much more!
Sunshine Pet Supplies mission since we opened was to provide the best customer service, a fountain of knowledge, and quality products. We specialize in Natural animal health only. In the ways of food, treats, toys, accessories and much more.
We take pride in being able to provide your animals with healthy products and a natural lifestyle. Yes animals have been domesticated for quite sometime but there mind, and body have never changed. We are a committed and passionate business, we stand strong in what we carry. We carry a wide variety of Natural foods from Canadian to some US.
Where and Why we got started.
Sunshine Pet Supplies started in 1989 in Sechelt B.C. A very traditional pet food store at first, we sold all the basics or staples of the pet food industry at the time. Foods like Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet and Nutro were our retail products. We had very limited knowledge of the Pet food industry and gladly took advice from our sales reps on which products we should carry. Pretty much right away we started to notice that our customers pets seemed to have reoccurring problems. Things like constantly shaking their heads, licking and chewing their paws, biting the base of the tails etc.. At first we thought it was a reaction to the fleas which are very common on the Sunshine Coast but these symptoms did not go away in the winter when fleas are not usually around. Once in a while we would get in a customer who fed a raw diet to their dog or cat and I remember asking why and what benefits their was. Their dog never seemed to have any of the issues that was stated above, their energy level was exceptional, stool size non existent and to top it off their skin and coat were amazing! These customers told me pretty much that i was poisoning peoples pets with the food that I was selling and if I was not selling raw, then I should be selling better dry food! I started to take their advice and look into the products that I was selling and what an eyeopener! Almost all of them contained By-products, Bad Fats, Separated grains etc... It seemed like they put more money into their packaging, advertising, and marketing, than they did the actual food. The real sad truth is that there was so little choices when it came down to "healthy pet food" we were getting very disheartened to going about our daily business.
One night in 1995 I was surfing on this fairly new concept called the internet looking at Pet foods and came across a brand called Innova. This food read like nothing I had ever seen before with none of the above mentioned products. Real Chicken, Turkey, and Herring, not to mention a lot of it as well as having apples, carrots, and real whole grains! This was what we were looking for for the people who would not buy raw pet food. The next morning we got in touch with the manufacturer who advised me that they had just started a distributorship for B.C and the rest was history. Within 2 years, Science Diet, Eukanuba, and Iams were gone from our store to be replaced by healthier foods like Innova, California Natural, and the just recently released Healthwise. We also started our first 5 rules to Pet food which in the last 4 years has become 6 rules. These self imposed rules have saved us from some of the biggest recalls in the Pet food industry that has effected some of the well known names in our industry like Royal Canine, Medi-cal, Science Diet, Nutro Natural Choice, Iams, Eukanuba, Hills, and Kirkland, just for starters.
(For further information on Pet Food recalls both past and present go to...
In 2002, we sold our Sechelt store and relocated our family to the sunny Okanagan where we opened our store located at the Westridge shopping center where we brought our Pet food concepts to an eager market that was looking a change from the traditional Pet food ideas. Based on the strengths of our Westside store and the numbers of people from Kelowna who would travel across the bridge to shop with us, we opened Sunshine Pet 2 on Baron road in December of 2009 which also has grooming. Finally in July of 2010, we opened our last Sunshine Pet Supplies and Grooming which is located at the Governors landing building across Staples.
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6 Rules to Pet Food
Here at Sunshine Pet Supplies we have 6 Rules we follow for choosing the RIGHT pet food.
Following these has allowed us to help keep your furry friends or non furry healthy and strong.
Dental
To have a healthy dog they need healthy gums and teeth. Cleaning their teeth regularly with enzymatic products and bones is very beneficial for over all health.
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