Mission Statement: Our mission as nutritional consultants is to enable dogs to thrive not just survive. We accomplish this by providing a nutritional solution that is biologically appropriate, natural, healthy, and balanced. We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of quality assurance through rigorous assay testing. This ensures that we consistently deliver superior products every day. Vision Statement: All dogs worldwide live a long, healthy, more fulfilling life by applying nutrition as the solution. Core Values: VDN fosters an environment of collaboration, responsibility, and accountability in order to create a convenient, balanced, raw, pet food product that does right by the dog! We are passionate about dog nutrition and helping everyone and anyone achieves ecosystem health and wellness for their dogs. After decades in the dog nutrition and training industry, Volhard has observed and documented how an unprocessed raw diet positively impacts the dog’s physical, immune (i.e.microbiome diversity) and behavioral systems. VDN acts with absolute honesty, integrity, and fairness while maintaining the highest standards in our dealings with employees, customers, and suppliers. Adhere to a human-grade, locally sourced in the USA, non-GMO, chemical-free product selection criteria that proudly provides a variety of raw nutritional and pet food products. Our raw food is rigorously tested three times for bacteria, mold, fungi, salmonella, and E.coli. VDN encourages informed choices through daily interaction with customers and the public at large via a multitude of communication platforms demonstrating the impact of a raw, natural diet on holistic pet health. We challenge ourselves as a company to remain open-minded by learning, growing, and exploring new ideas as the need presents itself. We do this by understanding the science the building blocks and the chemistry behind an unprocessed diet and a dog's anatomy and physiology.