{"id":1938,"date":"2022-03-09T17:11:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:44:19","slug":"why-two-fathers-founded-the-farmers-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/why-two-fathers-founded-the-farmers-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Two Dog Lovers Founded The Farmer\u2019s Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div class=\"responsive-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Farmer's Dog Founders' Story\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ooaoX5ZHZqc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>It all started with Jada, co-founder Brett Podolsky&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/ask-a-founder-why-we-love-our-dogs\/\">beloved dog<\/a>.<\/p><p>&ldquo;We got our start because she was sick for the first two years that I had her and I was willing to do anything to find a solution to her stomach problems,&rdquo; Brett says.<\/p><p>Once he said goodbye to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/the-history-of-commercial-pet-food-a-great-american-marketing-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commercial pet food<\/a> and switched her to a fresh diet made with real, whole food, her symptoms disappeared.&nbsp; Soon after, he teamed up with his friend Jonathan Regev to create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Farmer&rsquo;s Dog<\/a> and feed pets everywhere the healthiest food.<\/p><p>Hear the story in Brett and Jonathan&rsquo;s own words above, and if you haven&rsquo;t joined the real food for dogs movement yet, learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/6-benefits-of-feeding-human-grade-dog-food\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">benefits of a fresh food diet<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;It all started with Jada, co-founder Brett Podolsky&rsquo;s beloved dog.&ldquo;We got our start because she was sick for the first two years that I had her and I was willing to do anything to find a solution to her stomach problems,&rdquo; Brett says.Once he said goodbye to commercial pet food and switched her to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dog-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41217,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/41217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}