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Oven-baked dog cookies made from food you'd recognise in your own kitchen — lean protein, real pumpkin, and absolutely nothing you need a chemistry degree to pronounce.

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🐕 16 recipe iterations over six months to get the crunch right.

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High ProteinReal chicken & egg

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Zero PreservativesBaked, not chemically kept

Our four promises

Treats worth wagging for

Most mass-market treats lean on fillers, artificial flavours and chemical preservatives. We built Barky Bites around four rules we don't break.

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High Protein

Lean chicken and egg do the heavy lifting, so the protein claim comes from actual protein — not grain filler padding out the bag.

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100% Natural

Every ingredient is a recognisable whole food. No artificial colours, no artificial flavours, nothing synthetic hiding in the list.

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No Preservatives

Shelf life is managed with a low-moisture, two-stage bake — a physical process, not a chemical additive.

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Made with Care

Small-batch production, with structured taste and tolerance testing run on every single cycle before anything moves forward.

The range

Three lines. One standard.

Each line was developed to solve a different job — an everyday reward, a high-value training treat, and a functional wellness bite.

Now shipping

Pumpkin & Egg Cookies

Wellness & digestion

Our first pack to go out into the world. Real pumpkin for soluble fibre, egg for protein and structure, finished with a low-temperature second bake for a clean, durable crunch.

Pumpkin
Egg
Turmeric
Olive oil
Chia seeds

Launching soon

Chicken Protein Bites

Everyday high-protein reward

Five iterations of balancing protein density against a dough you can actually work with. Flaxseed came in for bind and omega-3; an extended low-temp bake made it double as a light dental chew.

Chicken breast
Egg
Oat flour
Flaxseed

Launching soon

Peanut Butter Crunch

High-value training treat

The fastest-disappearing batch we ever tested. Ripe banana brings sweetness without sugar, and every jar of peanut butter is checked to be unsalted, unsweetened and xylitol-free before it goes near a bowl.

Peanut butter
Banana
Pumpkin
Oat or wheat base

Grain-sensitive dog? The Peanut Butter line ships in both a wheat and an oat-flour base.

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What's different in the jar

The same comparison we print on every label — because the difference is easiest to see side by side.

What you're feeding

Barky Bites

Typical brands

No added preservatives

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Natural sweetener only

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Rice & wheat based, no mystery meal

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Human-grade ingredients

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Oven-baked, not extruded

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Back label of a Barky Bites jar showing the superfoods panel and comparison chart

Superfoods, not fillers

Three small additions that earn their place

We don't add anything for decoration. Each inclusion goes in for a reason we can defend on the label.

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Chia Seeds

Fibre and omega-3

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Olive Oil

Skin and coat health

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Turmeric

Natural colour, gentle support

Heart-shaped Barky Bites cookies laid out on baking trays before going into the oven

Inside the kitchen

Hand-cut, tray-baked, twice.

Every batch is rolled, cut with a fixed 8 mm cutter and laid out by hand. Then it's baked twice — a first bake to set the shape, and a low, slow second bake to pull the moisture down until the crunch holds without a single preservative.

That two-stage finish was the single biggest breakthrough of our development year. It's why a Barky Bite still snaps a fortnight after it leaves the oven.

Our method

Six steps, sixteen times over

We change one variable per batch. It's slower, but it means every result traces back to a specific cause instead of a lucky guess.

Hypothesise

Define one objective and the single lever we're changing this cycle.

Formulate

Adjust the recipe, with every ingredient checked against the dog-safe list.

Produce

Bake a small batch under controlled time and temperature.

Observe

Record texture, appearance, aroma, drying behaviour and batch yield.

Test

Run a taste-and-tolerance panel with real dogs and honest owner feedback.

Decide

Accept, iterate or branch — and carry the learning into the next cycle.

By the numbers

Six months in the kitchen

From a first crumbly tray in February to a packed, labelled pilot batch in July.

Recipe iterations

Product lines

Approved whole foods

Chemical preservatives

Ingredient safety

The list, and the anti-list

Because treats get fed to animals, safety is the first filter on every formulation — not the last check before printing.

Always approved

Ten whole foods, each chosen for a functional role — protein, binding, moisture, fibre or micronutrients.

Never, in any batch

Xylitol is the single most dangerous hidden ingredient in nut butters — which is why every jar we buy is verified unsalted, unsweetened and xylitol-free before it's opened.

Feeding guidance: treats are formulated to sit inside the widely recommended limit of no more than 10% of your dog's daily calories, with the rest coming from a complete, balanced diet.

Dogs deserve treats made from ingredients their owners can recognise.

— The Barky Bites founding team

Ready to spoil them properly?

Our pilot batch is packed, labelled and out with testers. Say hello and we'll tell you the moment jars are available near you.

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