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Co-founder · Head of quality control

Mochi's adventures

Twelve pounds of bichon frise and poodle, born February 2025. The food is milled in Paris, Ontario. Mochi lives in Toronto, which is why most of these are the lakeshore rather than the Grand River.

She is the reason any of this exists. A scare in her first year sent us looking properly at what was in her bowl, and what we found was a label that legally did not have to tell us. She is completely fine now, and entirely unaware of the paperwork she caused.

Updated September 2026

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Ready to go, roughly four seconds after the lead comes off the hook.
As far into Lake Ontario as she is willing to go.
Dinner. She does not look up until it is gone.
On the rocks at Humber Bay, refusing to look at the skyline.
The long stone breakwater. She takes it at a trot the whole way.
A whole field, and she walks the one path across it.
Late summer. Everything gets sniffed, on a schedule she sets.
Awenda Provincial Park, on a camping trip. Off the lakeshore and into the trees.
The stone beach at Humber Bay, which is her favourite and our slowest walk.
Sand is for digging. This was never in question.
Afternoon light off the lake.
The octopus. Undefeated, and somehow still intact.
The West End of Toronto after a real snowfall. It was deeper than the dog. She went anyway.
Twelve pounds of determination, crossing a field in the West End.
Quality control, hard at work.
February. The water goes an unreasonable colour and she wears the coat.
The other half of the job.