Ep. 3372 - TBT: Frozen Yogurt Dog Treats Are No Barking Matter
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week's “Throwback Thursday” segment, we hear from the co-founder of a business that provides frozen treats for dogs.
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| 0:00.0 | Frozen yogurt dog treats are no barking matter. |
| 0:09.2 | Hey friends, what's up? |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome as well to Throwback Thursday. |
| 0:14.0 | This segment, we take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first |
| 0:18.0 | featured them. |
| 0:19.2 | Now, today in our latest feature, we're going to hear from Matt Meyer. He is the co-founder of a business that provides frozen treats for dogs in the form of healthy yet delicious, supposedly, ice cream. I don't know how he knows if it's delicious. If he does some taste testing himself, I guess it's probably not a big deal to do that. You know, it's just frozen yogurt treats. |
| 0:39.9 | You know, it's just that they're normally provided for dogs. |
| 0:42.0 | So who knows, probably fine to do the taste test. |
| 0:44.0 | That's not the focus of our update. |
| 0:47.8 | We're going to hear about the business side of this business, which has been going pretty well. |
| 0:48.6 | We first featured it a long time ago. |
| 0:50.8 | Had a couple updates over the years. |
| 0:52.8 | I believe, like all through the pandemic they kept going. |
| 0:56.3 | I believe they're still being sold now on shelves, but I'll come back to that perhaps at the end. |
| 1:01.6 | For now, let's pass the microphone to Matt. |
| 1:19.0 | I am Matt Meyer. I'm from Longmont, Colorado. I am the co-founder and co-owner of the Bear and the Rat, |
| 1:25.9 | cool treats for dogs with my wife Meg. And I was previously featured on episode 384 of Side Hustle School. |
| 1:32.2 | My wife and I, Meg, we produce and sell a prebiotic frozen yogurt for dogs. |
| 1:36.7 | It's a healthy version of ice cream for them that includes them in the ice cream ritual, |
| 1:42.1 | but it's actually really good for their digestion and helps settle a lot of digestive issues, actually. |
| 2:00.9 | We are made in a real ice cream facility. If you look at our ingredient deck, it is real ingredients for your dog. It's real yogurt. It's real bananas. It's real peanut butter. And that's actually the one I always recommend to people is the banana and peanut butter. If you can think a smoothie, no sugar, that's exactly what you're getting. If you're thinking like a Ben and Jerry's or a Jenny's ice cream, you're going to be pretty |
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