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Speaker 1: dot com. Excited to visit with Burt Ward. And you
Speaker 1: know him as Robin from Batman and Robin, but we
Speaker 1: also know him as a gentleman who is an entrepreneur
Speaker 1: and he's doing wonderful things for pets with his brand
Speaker 1: of dog food called Gentle Giants, which is actually shipped
Speaker 1: right out of soust Fall, South Dakota.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, we have our warehousing there. We ship
Speaker 2: but all across America, right from that beautiful city of
Speaker 2: yours that gets a little coal sometimes during the winter
Speaker 2: it does, it's a little hot, but when I was there,
Speaker 2: it was beautiful and it's a beautiful city.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, and we love it here and let's
Speaker 1: talk a little bit. A lot of folks that are
Speaker 1: listening know you from Batman and Robin, from other projects
Speaker 1: that you do, and of course I know you from
Speaker 1: Gentle Giants. Dog food and cat food, because we've talked
Speaker 1: about that before. How did that all come about, because
Speaker 1: that's not something everybody listening probably doesn't realize that you're
Speaker 1: very involved in this. Let's talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, for the last thirty one years, my wife
Speaker 2: and I have rescued more than fifteen thousand, five hundred
Speaker 2: dogs and more than three hundred and fifty cats. In
Speaker 2: every case we found each and everyone a safe, loving home.
Speaker 2: In the course of doing that, we realized how short
Speaker 2: lives that the dogs and cats have in comparison to
Speaker 2: our human lives, and how meaningful our pets are to us,
Speaker 2: and we vowed that if there was a way, we
Speaker 2: would try to help them live longer and healthier. This
Speaker 2: is our charity. My wife and I don't take any
Speaker 2: salary from this. We never have, we never will. But
Speaker 2: we spent years to develop the finest pet food in
Speaker 2: the world that we believe is the finest, and we
Speaker 2: judge that on the fact that dogs and cats eating
Speaker 2: gentle giants' natural, non gam ingredients pet foods are living
Speaker 2: into their twenties. One of our customers has a dog that,
Speaker 2: on January third, just a month ago, turned thirty one
Speaker 2: years of age.
Speaker 1: Wow, he's been.
Speaker 2: Feeding for sixteen and a half years. Our food has
Speaker 2: been around a long time, and our food is available.
Speaker 2: Our dog food is available in all the pet Coast
Speaker 2: stores across America there's fifteen hundred, and our dog food
Speaker 2: and our cat food are also available online at petco
Speaker 2: dot com with free home delivery. Also other online retailers
Speaker 2: like Tractor Supply and Chewy dot com and PetSmart dot
Speaker 2: com they all have our food as well. But this
Speaker 2: is our life's work and we're thrilled to be able
Speaker 2: this year that we are and have been a sponsor
Speaker 2: of the Super Bowl promotion that started last month in
Speaker 2: January up until the game coming up on Sunday. And
Speaker 2: in addition this year, we're also going to be a
Speaker 2: sponsor of Major League Baseball, of college basketball, and the
Speaker 2: NFL National Football League. And we just want to reach
Speaker 2: people out there and say, if you love your dog
Speaker 2: or cat and you're interested in giving them an ext
Speaker 2: year ten years or more of healthy active life, considered
Speaker 2: picking up general giants for them so that they can
Speaker 2: have an opportunity to live as long as our dogs
Speaker 2: and cats are living.
Speaker 1: I love that and one of the things that I
Speaker 1: really like is again with the connection that we have
Speaker 1: here in Sioux Falls. And you've got a connection. Not
Speaker 1: only is the food made in this area, it's distributed
Speaker 1: from right here in Sioux Falls. So I love the
Speaker 1: fact that this even though we're listening to a guy
Speaker 1: who everybody all around the world know you, it's also
Speaker 1: a very local topic because the Gentle Giants dog food
Speaker 1: is distributed from Sioux Falls.
Speaker 2: Right well, it's actually and it's made in Sioux City, Iowa,
Speaker 2: which is only ninety miles away, and it's delivered up
Speaker 2: to Sioux Falls. We've been with them with Nordica Warehouses
Speaker 2: there for many years. Wonderful people, and we ship all
Speaker 2: over the United States. And again one of the things
Speaker 2: that we do we make our food fresh for every
Speaker 2: order every retailer that carries our food. In other words,
Speaker 2: we don't have warehouses full of food. We only they
Speaker 2: get the food right after they make it, the next
Speaker 2: day after it's made, and then the next day after
Speaker 2: that it's shipped out. So people are getting freshly made food.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't understand a lot of the bigger
Speaker 2: companies are bragging that their food has a three year
Speaker 2: shelf life. I wouldn't want to feed my dog of
Speaker 2: food that was made three years ago. We believe that
Speaker 2: the s a dog eats food that has been freshly made,
Speaker 2: the better the nutrition.
Speaker 1: I love that. Well, Bert, thank you for all that
Speaker 1: you're doing again, going from cake crusader to canine crusader
Speaker 1: and cat and kitten crusader. Thank you for doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing to help in that community. And we appreciate
Speaker 1: it a bunch all right.
Speaker 2: Well, as we said on Batman, come up again.
Speaker 1: Bert Ward has been our guest today. Gentle giants, dog
Speaker 1: foods and cat foods, and again it's available everywhere, but
Speaker 1: it comes from right here in Sioux Falls.
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