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Sundays for Dogs: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Sundays for Dogs is made by Sundays for Dogs (independent, venture-backed; co-founders Dr. Tory Waxman and Michael Waxman), founded 2020 — it scores green on 1 of 4 WSAVA-aligned criteria we track (2 red, 1 undisclosed), no FDA recalls on record, and 0 of the 4 Sundays for Dogs foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 4 Sundays for Dogs 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.
1 of 4 criteria confirmed yes · 2 confirmed no · 1 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 brand's own page states it employs an ACVN-boarded veterinary nutritionist and an animal-nutrition PhD (part-time) — both qualify. Individuals are not named. (Founder Dr. Tory Waxman is a veterinarian but not stated to be a DACVN.)
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Source describes manufacturing at a USDA-monitored human-grade facility but does not claim Sundays owns/operates it; a fetched review (bestiepaws) reports manufacturing at facilities in Ohio and New Jersey. No evidence of an owned plant => co-packer.
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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 Sundays for Dogs
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
Sundays for Dogs (independent, venture-backed; co-founders Dr. Tory Waxman and Michael Waxman)
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Independent DTC startup co-founded by Dr. Tory Waxman (veterinarian) and Michael Waxman; raised a $10M Series A (Imaginary Ventures) per WebSearch (PR Newswire, not fetched). No corporate parent.
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Founded
2020
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Publicly launched 2020; idea/development began ~2017 per WebSearch summaries.
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Headquarters
Ohio (Cleveland area)
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Fetched source says headquartered in Ohio; WebSearch results specify Cleveland, OH (675 Alpha Park Drive), not confirmed by fetched source.
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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 Sundays for Dogs.
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 Sundays for Dogs'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
72%
avg. fields disclosed
The foods
Foods from Sundays for Dogs we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.