For most of their history as human companions, dogs have scavenged scraps from the supper table. But that all changed in 1860, when an Ohio electrician named James Spratt journeyed to London to sell lightning rods. After watching quayside mongrels feasting on hardtack, the dry biscuit that fed sailors on long voyages, Spratt set about making a biscuit for dogs that could serve as their primary food.
Spratt’s Patent Meat Fibrine Dog Cakes were a mix of grains, beetroot, vegetables and “the dried unsalted gelatinous parts of Prairie Beef,” as the company explained in an early advertisement.
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Who Made That Dog Biscuit? - NYTimes.com
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