Spot & Tango: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Spot & Tango is made by Spot & Tango (independent, venture-backed; founder Russell Breuer), founded 2018 — it scores green on 0 of 4 WSAVA-aligned criteria we track (1 red, 2 undisclosed), no FDA recalls on record, and 0 of the 4 Spot & Tango foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 4 Spot & Tango foods in our corpus
The scorecard
WSAVA-aligned criteria
The World Small Animal Veterinary Association's nutrition guidelines suggest four questions to ask any pet food maker before you buy. Most "best dog food" sites skip straight to ingredient vibes and star ratings — we publish the actual answers instead, each sourced, or marked honestly undisclosed when we can't confirm it.
0 of 4 criteria confirmed yes · 1 confirmed no · 2 undisclosed. Undisclosed is common, especially for smaller brands — it means we couldn't confirm an answer from a public source, not that the answer is unfavorable.
The fetched FAQ only references 'vets and veterinary nutritionists' generically with no name or credential (no DACVN/PhD identified). Per the rules, unnamed/uncredentialed 'nutritionists' => value=null. No fetched source names a board-certified veterinary nutritionist or PhD animal nutritionist on staff.
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Spot & Tango owns and operates its own ~70,000 sq ft manufacturing facility (Upper Macungie Township / Allentown, PA) where its UnKibble dry line is produced; the article implies wet food is made elsewhere (co-packed), hence 'mixed.' Same article: it 'cut the ribbon on a new, nearly 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Upper Macungie Township.'
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No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 4 labels we’ve verified for this brand, and no company-wide claim was found either. Most pet foods are only "formulated to meet" AAFCO profiles (a paper calculation) rather than fed to real animals in trials — this is common, not necessarily a red flag.
A reproducible PubMed search (author-affiliation field, animal/pet-domain filtered) returns zero indexed papers for this brand name. Not proof no research exists — only that none is PubMed-indexed under this exact name.
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These four checks come from WSAVA's global nutrition guidelines for evaluating a pet food manufacturer — not our own opinion score. Read our full methodology →
The company
Who makes Spot & Tango
Ownership and history, each sourced independently — private-label and co-packed brands often hide the actual manufacturer behind the name on the bag.
Parent company
Spot & Tango (independent, venture-backed; founder Russell Breuer)
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Independent DTC startup founded by Russell Breuer (per WebSearch results incl. Crunchbase and Animal Care Trust USA interview; not fetched). No corporate parent found.
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Founded
2018
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The brand's own FAQ (fetched) says 'Spot & Tango began in our founder's kitchen in 2017' — 2017 = home-cooking origin, 2018 = company launch.
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Headquarters
New York, NY
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WebSearch results cite a specific address at 385 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (not fetched/confirmed).
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The safety record
FDA recall history
Joined from the FDA's own Animal & Veterinary recall feed (2019–present) plus curated pre-2019 records — the same live-checked feed as our full recall database, filtered to Spot & Tango.
Join of data/recalls.json (FDA Animal & Veterinary recall feed, 2019-present) + data/recalls_historical.json. This is NOT a complete lifetime recall history; recalls predating 2019 (or absent from the FDA datatable) are not represented unless curated in recalls_historical.json.
The corpus
What we've verified from Spot & Tango's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
4
4 dog
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 4 (0%)
Formulated to meet
4
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
47%
avg. fields disclosed
The foods
Foods from Spot & Tango we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.