Beggin' Strips

Beggin' Strips
Product typePet food and snacks
OwnerNestlé Purina PetCare
Produced byNestlé Purina PetCare
CountryWorldwide
Previous ownersRalston Purina
Websitewww.purinatreats.com/dog-treats/beggin

Beggin’ Strips is a brand of pet food and pet snack manufactured by Nestlé Purina PetCare.[1] The product was first manufactured by Ralston Purina.[1] The product's tagline is "Dogs Don't Know It's Not Bacon".[2] The product is manufactured to resemble bacon strips.[3]

History

Beggin' Strips were first sold in 1989. Nestlé Purina started off by selling this product in North America.[4]

Nutrition

Purina Beggin' Strips contain some bacon and include other ingredients such as sodium nitrite and BHA as preservatives[5] and corn gluten meal, wheat flour, ground yellow corn, water, sugar, glycerin, soybean meal, hydrogenated starch hydrolysate, phosphoric acid, sorbic acid, natural and artificial smoke flavors. The product comes in a variety of flavors.[6]

Marketing

The trademark bag for the product features a cartoon dog licking his chops while awaiting a treat. Created in 1994, the dog was named "Hamlet." Hamlet was chosen to appear in Nestlé Purina's advertising for Beggin' Strips, and to represent the product.[7]

Purina holds an annual pet parade around the time of Mardi Gras. The Parade is held every year in Soulard, a historic French neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri.[8] St. Louis' Waterloo Courier also covered the Beggin' Strips Stupid Dog Contest on July 4, 1999. In prior years, the contest offered multiple monetary prizes, the grand prize being a $5,000 supply of Beggin' Strips per year and a trip to see the Late Show with David Letterman in New York.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Oatley, D. (2005). 88% of Americans Are Abnormal: The Bentinel Takes a Skewed Look at the News. Silver Lake Publishing. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-56343-789-2. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
  2. ^ "Learn from the past". Pet Food Industry. October 23, 2007. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  3. ^ "Can Cats Eat Beggin' Strips? Vet Reviewed Health Risks & FAQ". Catsster. June 19, 2025. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  4. ^ "Beggin Strips History". Knol.
  5. ^ "Beggin' Time". Archived from the original on 2012-03-29.
  6. ^ "What's really in Purina's 'bacon' dog treats?". Fortune. July 15, 2015. Retrieved October 18, 2025.
  7. ^ "Pet Food Industry".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  8. ^ "Mardi Gras costume clad carnival of critters parades through historic Soulard". First Alert 4. February 24, 2025. Retrieved November 3, 2025.
  9. ^ "Pooches nationwide put best paws forward". Waterloo Courier. July 4, 1999. p. 35. Retrieved 17 March 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

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