Canned dog food first appeared in the 1910s. Through the 1960s,
scores of small companies existed that used local butchering
scraps along with meat not popular for human consumption to
manufacture pet food. The growing use of dry food for dogs and
cats was connected with the increased popularity of cold grain-based
breakfast cereals and the standardization of pelleted food for
other animals.
Click on each image below to view the collection of pet food
labels. These labels range in date from the 1920s to the 1960s.
