Dog Chow

Dog Chow is a brand of dog food marketed and manufactured by Nestlé Purina PetCare. Dog Chow was first introduced in 1926, and has since expanded its brand offerings to include a wider selection products for dogs with the addition of food for puppies, elderly dogs, and dogs needing a weight maintenance formula as well as offering other types of pet food, including Puppy Chow, Cat Chow, and Kitten Chow.

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Dog Chow

Product type	Dog Food
Owner	Nestlé Purina PetCare
Produced by	Nestlé Purina PetCare
Country	Worldwide
Introduced	1926^[1]
Website	https://www.purina.com/dog-chow

Dog Chow is a brand of dog food marketed and manufactured by Nestlé Purina PetCare. Dog Chow was first introduced in 1926,^[1] and has since expanded its brand offerings to include a wider selection products for dogs with the addition of food for puppies, elderly dogs, and dogs needing a weight maintenance formula as well as offering other types of pet food, including Puppy Chow, Cat Chow, and Kitten Chow.

Products

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Over the years, Dog Chow has expanded its product line to cater to the varying needs of dogs at different life stages and with specific dietary requirements.

In addition to the original Dog Chow formula, the brand now includes:

Puppy Chow: Formulated for puppies to support their growth and development.

Senior Chow: Tailored for older dogs with age-related nutritional needs.^[2]

Healthy Weight Formula: Designed for dogs that require weight management.

High-Performance Chow: Created for active dogs needing higher energy levels.

The brand has also extended its offerings to include pet foods for other animals, such as Cat Chow and Kitten Chow.

Due to the brand's growing popularity, a string of commercials were aired in Canada in 1962. The commercials introduced Jim Henson's brainchild, Rowlf the Dog.^[3]

References

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^ ^a ^b "Dog Chow". Nestlé. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
^ "Les meilleures croquettes pour chien en mai 2025 si vous souhaitez de la qualité à petit prix". BFM TV (in French). May 14, 2025. Retrieved August 26, 2025.
^ iMage (2025-02-21). "Rowlf the Muppet's TV Debut: The Purina Dog Chow Commercial | Muppet Madness". Retrieved 2025-08-27.

External links

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Dog Chow Brand Dog Food

Nestlé

Divisions

Nestlé Prepared Foods Nestlé Purina PetCare Nestlé Waters Nestlé Wyeth Nutrition
Divested	BlueTriton Brands (Nestlé Waters North America)

Subsidiaries

Joint ventures

Cereal Partners Worldwide Froneri
Dissolved	Beverage Partners Worldwide Nestlé Toll House Café

Other assets

Lactalis-Nestlé Fresh Products (50%)
L'Oréal (30.3%)
Malher (100%)
Osem (100%)
Hsu Fu Chi (60%)
Yinlu Foods (60%)

Brands

Appliances	BabyNes Dolce Gusto Nespresso SICAL
Baby nutrition	BabyNes Bear Brand Cerelac Gerber Nido
Baking	Toll House cookies
Bottled water	Contrex Acqua Panna Perrier Princes Gate Pure Life S.Pellegrino Vittel
Cereals	Cheerios¹ Chocapic Cinnamon Toast Crunch¹ Cookie Crisp¹ Corn Flakes Fitness Golden Grahams¹ Golden Nuggets Lion Cereal Lucky Charms¹ Milo Cereal Nesquik (cereal)⁶ Trix¹ Shreddies⁷ Shredded Wheat⁷
Chocolate and desserts	Abuelita Aero Aero Biscuits After Eight Allen's Bar One Bertie Beetle Big Turk Blue Riband Black Magic Breakaway Cailler Caramac Carlos V Cheekies Chokito Coffee Crisp Crisp Crunch¹² Drifter Fox's Garoto Goobers Kit Kat³ Kit Kats in Japan Kohler Life Savers¹⁴ Lion Mackintosh's Toffee Matchmakers Menier Chocolate Milkybar Milo Mirage Munchies Negresco Nestlé Milk Chocolate Passatempo Peppermint Crisp Perugina Polo Quality Street Red Ripperz Rolo³ Rowntree's Rowntree's Fruit Gums Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles Sin Parar Smarties⁴ Svitoch TEX Toffee Crisp Walnut Whip White Knight Yorkie Zvečevo
Coffee and beverages	Abuelita Alpine⁸ BabyNes Blue Bottle Coffee Boost Carnation^8,9 Caro Chameleon Cold-Brew Coffee-Mate Dolce Gusto Klim La Lechera Menier Milo cocoa Nescafé Nespresso Nesquik Nestea Ovaltine⁴ Ricoré Seattle's Best Coffee Starbucks ¹³ Supligen Sweet Leaf
Dairy products	Alpine⁸ Bear Brand^10,11 Carnation^8,9 Coffee-Mate La Lechera Nesquik
Ice cream	D'Onofrio Drumstick¹⁵ Eskimo Pie¹⁵ Fab Frosty Paws¹⁵ Häagen-Dazs^2,15 Hjem-IS Kit Kat¹⁵ Maxibon Mövenpick Parlour Smarties
Prepared and packaged food and snacks	Buitoni California Pizza Kitchen DiGiorno Herta Hot Pockets Lean Cuisine Libby's Lean Pockets Maggi Stouffer's Thomy Tombstone Uncle Tobys Wagner Winiary Yinlu Foods
Purina PetCare	Alpo Beggin' Strips Beneful Bonio Dog Chow Fancy Feast Felix Friskies Frosty Paws Winalot
Uncle Tobys	Cheerios¹ PLUS Weeties
Former brands and subsidiaries	Alcon Alfasigma Animal Bar Arrowhead Butterfinger Baby Ruth Chocolate Surpresa Deer Park Dreyer's¹⁵ Enviga Gale's Galderma Laboratories Cetaphil Epiduo Restylane Hoadley's Ice Mountain Jenny Craig Libby's Ozarka Peter's Chocolate Poland Spring Polly Waffle PowerBar Powwow Water Rowntree Mackintosh Violet Crumble Wonder Ball Zephyrhills

People

¹ Brand owned by General Mills; Produced by General Mills in the U.S. and Canada. Produced by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere. ² Brand owned by General Mills; U.S. and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license. ³ U.S. production rights owned by The Hershey Company. ⁴ U.S. rights and production owned by the Smarties Candy Company with a different product. ⁵ U.S. rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned by Associated British Foods. ⁶ Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlé. ⁷ Brand owned by Post Foods; Produced by Cereal Partners and branded as Nestlé in the U.K. and Ireland. ⁸ Philippine production rights owned by Alaska Milk Corporation. ⁹ Singaporean, Malaysian and Thai production rights owned by Fraser and Neave. ¹⁰ Used only in Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia. ¹¹ Used only in the Philippines. ¹² U.S. production rights owned by the Ferrara Candy Company. ¹³ NA rights and specific trade dress to all packaged coffee and other products under the Starbucks brand owned by Nestlé since 2019. ¹⁴ Brand owned by Mars, sold by Nestlé in Canada. ¹⁵ Produced by Froneri in the U.S. since 2020.

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