What started as a homemade solution to feed her own pets turned into a successful business for Tracey Rentcome, founder of Bones 2 Go!, a raw pet food company rooted in passion for pet nutrition.

Following the raw food movement in the late 1990s, Rentcome began crafting raw meals for her pets and those of her friends. As the demand grew, she launched Bones 2 Go! in 2003.

The details

Through her own experience switching from commercial pet food to homemade pet food, Rentcome said there was a noticeable change in her pets overall health.

The original acronym for the raw pet food diet is the BARF diet, Rentcome said, which stands for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food or Bones and Raw Food, and is a raw feeding approach for pets that emphasizes a diet mimicking what their ancestors would have eaten in the wild.


Rentcome said though she only intended to operate her business temporarily as an educational opportunity to teach others the importance of feeding their pets raw food, the demand for her services at Bones 2 Go! demonstrated the need for those continued services.

While a large population of people saw the value in pet nutrition, Rentcome realized most people did not have the time to prepare meals themselves.
Bones 2 Go! offers a variety of prepackaged raw meat including chicken and beef options. (Jovanna Aguilar/Community Impact)
Bones 2 Go! offers a variety of prepackaged raw meat, including chicken and beef options. (Jovanna Aguilar/Community Impact)
What they offer

Through Bones 2 Go!, a business where products are tested by her own pets before they hit the shelf, Rentcome facilitates pet nutrition.

With services offered in store and through delivery, products offered include a range of raw food choices from ground chicken heart, ground beef heart, boneless turkey thighs and bones as well as a variety of patties and meat bowls.


Benefits to feeding pets raw food include:
  • Better overall health and energy level
  • Improved dental health—raw meaty bones help to clean your pet's teeth
  • Shinier coats and healthier skin
  • Smaller stools and better digestion. A dog or cat who eats raw is better absorbing their nutrients so stool volume is much less.
  • Leaner body mass and a strong immune system
  • Increased mental stimulation
“You start to see the results when you start adding fresh food, even if you don't do all fresh food, if you start adding fresh ground meat to the top of your [pets] dry food or offering it separately, you start to see the difference in your cat's coat and skin and your dog as well teeth and breath,” Rentcome said.