Addiction Pet Foods at Sniff and Shift: which recipe for which dog

Addiction Pet Foods is a New Zealand recipe brand with a US arm based in Kent, Washington, and its dog and cat foods now sell through Sniff and Shift by way of Shopify Collective. Sniff and Shift makes freeze-dried treats in Malvern, Pennsylvania and does not make or formulate any Addiction Pet Foods recipe. Every Addiction order ships to you directly from the maker, typically in about four days, with tracking, and the return goes back to them by email through us. What follows is a plain map of the line: fifty one active listings, sorted by protein, format, and breed size, so you are not clicking through every page to find the one recipe that fits.

Start with the protein, not the bag

Addiction builds most of its dry and canned recipes around a single named protein: kangaroo, venison, salmon, duck, chicken, or beef, plus a lamb and beef blend under the Wild Islands name. A single named protein matters most for a dog who has already reacted to a common one like chicken or beef, since it narrows what is actually in the bowl. The Wild Kangaroo and Apples Dry Dog Food and the Viva La Venison Dry Dog Food are two of the more distinct single protein options in the dry lineup, and both come from the same New Zealand recipe family with different meat sourcing behind them. The Wild Islands sub line takes a different approach, building recipes around a country or region theme: Highland Meats (beef and lamb), Island Bird (duck, turkey, and chicken), Forest Meat (venison), and Pacific Catch (salmon, mackerel, and hoki), and it repeats across dry, canned, dog, and cat, so the same family name turns up in several different listings once you count every species and format.

Dry, canned, or air-dried

The line covers three formats. Dry kibble is the largest group, sold by the pound in bags that range from small trial sizes up to larger bags depending on the recipe. Canned food comes in 185 gram cans, sold single or in multi packs, including two Wild Islands mix flavor packs that combine several recipes from the same format instead of a single flavor per case. Air dried food, sold under the Addiction raw alternative name and the separate Wishbone name, is dehydrated rather than cooked at high heat or heavily processed, and it is priced and packaged differently from both dry and canned: by the pack, in weights and pack sizes that vary by recipe, so check the specific product page rather than assuming one size fits the whole air dried group.

Small breed and single ingredient options

A few recipes are labeled specifically for small breeds, including the Duck Royale small breed dry food and the Viva La Venison small breed dry food, both sized with a smaller kibble bite. There is also a vegetarian dry dog food in the Zen Vegetarian line for households looking for a meat free option, which is a narrower niche than the rest of the catalog and worth checking against your vet's guidance before switching a dog over. On the treat side, the Meaty Bites line comes in five single proteins, kangaroo, beef, chicken, venison, and brushtail, each sold in a single flavor rather than mixed, and several carry Hypoallergenic in the maker's own product name; that name comes from Addiction, not from us, so check the ingredient list on the product page rather than the word in the title if a specific allergy is the reason you are shopping this line.

Cat food is a separate list

Addiction also sells dry and canned cat food under several of the same family names, Wild Islands, Viva La Venison, Salmon Bleu, and Duck Royale, plus a Wishbone dry cat recipe. These are formulated and labeled for cats only; a Wild Islands dry cat recipe and a same named Wild Islands dry dog recipe are two different products with two different formulations, so do not treat the names as interchangeable between species when you are shopping. Canned cat food comes in the same 185 or 85 gram can sizes as the dog line, single cans or multi packs, and one Wild Islands mix flavor pack covers three canned cat recipes in one case rather than a single flavor repeated.

If you are shopping for both a dog and a cat in the same household, treat the two lists as separate errands. A recipe built for a cat is formulated to a cat's own protein and nutrient needs, not a smaller version of the dog recipe with the same name, so pick from the cat-labeled listings for the cat and the dog-labeled listings for the dog rather than assuming one bag covers both.

Bundles: two products, one order

Nine listings pair a dry, canned, or air dried food with a bag of Meaty Bites treats from the same protein family, sold as a single SKU rather than two separate purchases. The Viva La Venison Dog Food and Treats Bundle is one example: the dry food and the treat bag ship together in the sizes listed on that product page. Reading the bundle's own title tells you exactly which two items are inside; nothing is added beyond what the title names.

Buying it here versus elsewhere

Addiction Pet Foods describes its food as formulated with free-range and sustainably sourced meats and GMO-free fruits and vegetables, giving dogs and cats what the maker calls optimal nutrition. Beyond that one line from the maker, we are not going to repeat their marketing copy back to you; what we can tell you is what is actually in each bag, can, or pack, sourced from the product page itself, and that every order here ships from the maker's Washington operation with its own tracking number, separate from anything you order from our own Malvern kitchen.