our history

In 2002, after several years of home cooking food for her two dogs, Marianne Gage decided to experiment with making a healthy, all natural treat for them. Starting with a homemade biscotti recipe, and knowing that her dogs loved the taste of pumpkin, Marianne combined the two using only all natural, dog safe ingredients.

The final product was a hit. Not only did her dogs love the cookies, but so did just about every dog that tried them. Soon everyone was asking for them. Marianne’s son David soon started getting ideas of turning the cookie production into a business. The two of them agreed and soon began brain storming new flavors and streamlining cookie production. Thus Paw Lickers All Natural Dog Cookies were born. Around this time Marianne returned to Sweden to visit family.

While there she ran across a very unique walking harness that was not available in America, the Bjorkis Walking Harness. Once back in the U.S.A., Marianne and David started marketing the cookies to local health food stores and both the cookies and harnesses at regional dog shows. Soon, there were three flavors of Paw Lickers All Natural Cookies, several area health food stores carrying the cookies, and many more customers ordering by phone and internet.

Over the next two years, their customer base continued to grow until there were so many customers that Marianne’s home kitchen could not pump out cookies fast enough. It wasn’t long before the business, by necessity, needed to grow even more.

On December 3rd 2005, they opened Paw Lickers Bakery & Boutique for Pets in Greenfield Center New York. Since opening, they have expanded their lines of products to include many quality products and many more that are either very hard to find, or exclusive to Paw Lickers in the U.S.A.