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all sweetness & light

Enjoy our top-selling and beloved Sweet Potato & Ginger Snaps on sale this month. Shop and save in bulk or in 7 ounce packages. Sweet & delicious plus super-healthy and full of bright sweet potato goodness.

cheers, Ma Snax

Gingerbread visions swirl in their heads

Big Gingy Frostys & Big Gingy Men on Sale!

Please enjoy our latest discounts on superfine treats that every good dog has on their wish list

Plus for a limited time orders $50 and up ship free

+ more specials online. Shop now for the best selection and to insure the goods arrive on time.

Thanks very much from the Ma Snax family of dedicated hard-working holiday elves.

All of the above are retail offers only.

cyber monday sale

Shop online today and save on snax!

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Every Flavor Packaged Biscuit Sale

Enjoy 15% off all of our packaged treats thru March 15. 

Enter code: MARCH15

Happy Snacking!

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Summer lounging + Bon Bons

Aaah, July. So bright, sunny and warm. We're loving late sunsets, long morning hikes and splashy river romps. We pack plenty of energy-giving biscuits for the pups for all our outdoor adventures. Keeps them fueled and going all day.

Shop online at www.masnax.com and use the code SAVE10 at checkout for 10% off your purchases. Shop at your favorite indy retailer too and do ask for Ma Snax by name if they haven't discovered our fab line of treats.

Life is sweet!

New! Bon Bon Cookies

Calendula Season

You know those pretty orange flowers that are blooming everywhere right now? They're on grassy slopes, sidewalk cracks, garden beds, you name it.
They're native wild calendulas and they're superb. AKA Nature's healer, Calendula has tons of beneficial uses.

From "How Stuff Works":

When looking for an herbal remedy to treat skin or wounds, think flower power -- or, more specifically, calendula. Its flowers, and occasionally its leaves, can be used to treat a variety of afflictions in different ways.
Calendula has a long history of use as a wound-healing and skin-soothing botanical. This lovely marigoldlike flower (although called pot marigold, it is not a true marigold) is considered a vulnerary agent, a substance that promotes healing. Calendula also has anti-inflammatory and weak antimicrobial activity. It is most often used topically for lacerations, abrasions, and skin infections; less commonly, it is used internally to heal inflamed and infected mucous membranes.
Uses of Calendula

Numerous topical preparations exist for external use. Calendula salve, for example, is a useful and versatile product to keep in the first-aid kit or home medicine chest. In addition to treating minor cuts and abrasions, the salve is great for chapped lips and diaper rash. You can use calendula teas as a mouthwash for gum and tooth infections, a gargle for sore throats and tonsillitis, and a sitz bath for genital inflammation or hemorrhoids. Or drink the tea to help treat bladder infections or stomach ulcers.

You can buy six packs at the nursery or start some from seeds, but the wild ones are out there and plentiful, so why not harvest some?

From Mountain Rose Herbs; a few recipes...

This medicinal oil is simple to prepare and has so many uses. The gentle, soothing, and healing oil is perfect for cradle cap, diaper rash, chapped or chafed skin, bruises, and sore or inflamed muscles. The oil can be used alone, or incorporated into salves, massage oils, lip balms, ointments, creams, and lotions.

Organic Olive oil
Organic Calendula flowers

1. Place Calendula flowers in a clean, dry glass jar. If using fresh Calendula, wilt for 12 hours to remove most of the moisture (too much moisture will cause the oil to go rancid) before adding to the jar. Pour olive oil into the jar, making sure to cover the flowers by at least 1” of oil so they will have space to expand. Stir well and cap the jar tightly.
2. Place the jar in a warm, sunny windowsill and shake once or more per day.
3. After 4-6 weeks, strain the herbs out using cheesecloth. Pour the infused oil into glass bottles and store in a cool dark place.

Heat Method: I prefer to infuse oils utilizing the solar or folk method described above, but heat can be applied if you need the oil quickly. To prepare, follow step 1 from above, but place the Olive oil and Calendula flowers in an uncovered container. Warm over low heat at approximately 100 degrees F for at least 3-5 hours, the longer the better. A yogurt maker, double boiler, or inside the oven with a pilot light on are all effective ways to heat the oil, just make sure to check the temperature occasionally to ensure that the oil isn’t getting too warm. Once the oil has infused, strain out the herbs using cheesecloth and package the infused oil into glass bottles.

A soothing and healing salve. Rub into sore or inflamed muscles, apply to minor cuts, scrapes, insect bites, rashes, diaper rashes, stretch marks, chapped lips, chafed skin, bruises, and other skin irritations.

4 oz Calendula flower infused herbal oil (from above recipe)
½ oz Beeswax
20 drops organic Lavender essential oil (optional)

Coarsely chop the beeswax or use beeswax pastilles. Melt beeswax and Calendula oil over a double boiler.  Once melted, remove from burner and stir in the Lavender essential oil. Pour into tins or glass jars. Allow to cool thoroughly before using or placing caps on the jars.

This nourishing lip balm is made from healing ingredients which soothe dry and chapped lips.

1 Tablespoon Shea Butter
3 Tablespoons Calendula Herbal Oil (from above recipe)
1 Tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon Beeswax
10-15 drops essential oil of choice
A few drops of Vitamin E Oil

Coarsely chop the beeswax or use beeswax pastilles. Place beeswax, butter, and oil in a small pot or glass Pyrex measuring cup and gently heat in the top of a double boiler until the beeswax and butters have melted. Once melted, remove from the stovetop and stir in the essential oil and Vitamin E Oil. Immediately pour the mixture into lip balm tubes or small containers. This recipe will make approximately 1.5 oz of lip balm, enough to fill 10 lip balm tubes, 6 of your 1/4 oz plastic jars, or 3 1/2 oz tins or plastic jars.


- See more at: http://mountainroseblog.com/healing-calendula/#sthash.WHSCMG1i.dpuf

Our Treat of the Month for March is the ever-delicious, savory and beneficial Chicken, Sunflower Seed & Calendula [with Joint Support!] They're on special at 15% off, try some today. Your lucky dog will thank you for it...Cheers & Woofs, Ma Snax

Bark Plug

Bark Magazine's fab Spring issue just landed in our mailbox and boy were we ticked to find our adorable Lucky Leprechaun Cookies featured in their products editorial pages [incidentally, they're on special right now at 15% off]

See? there we are; on the left!

Be sure and subscribe to or pick up on the newsstand this excellent publication. Bark is always full of quality information and great reads. We love it.

Thanks Bark!

Please celebrate St. Patty's Day and the arrival of Spring with us. 

Our March sale is on with lots of fresh markdowns and seasonal treats to delight and nourish your dog. check it out: www.masnax.com

Five Days

Just five day left to save on Sweet Potato & Ginger Snaps, packaged or bulk. 

Don't miss the sale. Sweet potatoes are the #1 veggy for nutrition. These biscuits are so good for your dog. Enhanced with Bilberry and ginkgo for eye and vision support.  

Handmade in small batches with human quality mostly organic ingredients like rolled oats, molasses, farm fresh egg, flax, cinnamon and of course, GINGER.

A top selling flavor. Your dogs will flip.

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Baking weather

Infrequent posters though we are, we've always got something to say, just not a lot of time to say it!

Today, we have a special offer...All of our DIY Baking Kits are on special this week.

We adore this time of of year. HARVEST. 
Cool mornings and evening and warm afternoons simply delight us. It's ideal baking weather, don't you think? 
Try any of our DIY mixes and you'll see how fun and easy it is to bake biscuit and pupcakes for your beloved four-legger. Simple and easy to follow baking instructions are included. Baking is a great activity with kids too. Everyone gets involved.
All of our mixes are made in small batches with natural and healthy human-grade and mostly organic ingredients for the health of your dog.

Our Holiday Biscuit kit is also on sale. Why not pick up a couple to give as gifts? 
The sale ends Friday September 21, so start shopping. You'll be preheating your oven in no time flat.
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Small Biz Saturday & beyond

Shop til you drop, it's Small Business Saturday. Keep it local. We think it's a tad odd that it's sponsored by American Express, but oh well; whatev. 
We say, shop local and handmade whenever possible, not just today.


Our Cyber Monday special is queued up and ready to go, so look for it! Sign up for our newsletter on our homepage.

Sled Dogs at work

Hint: it has to do with transporting & shipping packages, but don't worry, we gave these hard working dogs the day off.

Remember...we do custom labels for you holiday snax. If you're looking to wow your friends & family with a special treat, not made in China, not mass-produced and not one that'll end up being re-gifted, then do customize it with Ma Snax! It's easy and there's still plenty of time to get your very own holiday snax out to the whole list. 

Custom Labeled Snax

Getting close...

Webstore update; we're nearly there. We're uploading product info and getting the shipping/payment modules squared away this week. 
We have an August 1 goal...hope we meet it.
I'm really excited about the Zen Cart, there's loads of great features and I can't wait to use them all!




This week's obsession...bagel & donuts. I love these simple & classic cookies. [dogs love em too] Crunchy round love.

Seeded Bagel Cookies

Sprinkle Dipped Donut Cookies

Coconut Dipped Donut Cookie

web re-design update

We're diggin in and working on our new site and store...the new store especially will be so much better, easy to navigate and have great features.
Just to let online shoppers know, our current store is disabled, so if you want to place an order online, a simple email will do the trick. We're discounting shipping charges as well. It's the least we can do.
There are no service interruptions on our end, we're still baking biscuits like mad. Everything at www.masnax.com is operable, only online shopping is turned off, but it won't be long now.
Contact us directly with anything you need and we'll make it happen!
Tel: 707.293.9676
Fax: 707.293.9679
email: masnax@comcast.net

New Cookies for May

New cookies = beautiful hand-decorated confections. 

Online offer for May: enter "PENNY8" and get free Birthday Snax, courtesy of Penny the birthday girl. 

Good 'til 5/31/11

Pinnacle!

Woo-hoo! 
We won the 2010 Pet Age Magazine/H.H. Backer Pinnacle Award. 
Such great news. The Pinnacle Awards are given for the most reader requests for certain categories of products.
We won for our Nuts About Grain-Free Super Peanut Snax. [they are awfully good, if I do say so myself].

Thanks readers, keep the requests coming, we love it!

lunch break

A girl's gotta eat. 


With the holiday season in full swing, our little corner of the world is looking more like Santa's workshop more each day.
Here's a few cookie and gingerbread doghouse photos while I eat my "go-to" lunch: cheese sandwich. It's not glamorous, but it works.

drizzle 5 point star

gingyboy twins

gingerbread cookies

Gingerbread doghouse

assorted holiday cookies

Break's over, back to work!

Doggy Dessert Chef

thanks DoggyDessertChef for listing our healthy and fun Carrot Calendula Cake.

Doggy Dessert Chef features excellent recipes for the DIY dog treat maker...well worth following...cheers. We think it's great that people love their dogs enough to thoughtfully create and prepare recipes for cookies, cakes, food and snax.

Movin' on up!

We have moved...

Our new Phone: 707.293.9676
New fax: 707.293.9679



While we're here, thanks to the great bloggers and pet publications who've featured us lately. Our "Nuts About Grain-Free-Super Peanut Biscuits" are on fire.

Pet Business Magazine 8/10 Issue

Pet Age Magazine 8/10 Issue

And thanks to Pawssentials for listing us as well alphabetically under treats, of course].

Bay Area Dog magazine

Say hello to a new lifestyle publication serving Northern California's dogs and dog lovers.

Inside Bay Area Dog you will find product reviews, travel destinations, health and fitness advice, funny and heartwarming stories, and more, all having one thing in common: dogs.

Bay Area Dog will print two issues in 2010, and will be quarterly in 2011, expanding to six times per year in 2012. Bay Area Dog covers the entire Bay Area.

Here we are in the very first issue!

visit their site for subscriptions [I heard they may be giving some away for Free!]

the more the merrier!

We just added Unleashed Dog Training and Adrian Hyman Photography to our event!
We're already so excited that Sirius Republic and ArooStudio [among others!] will be there.
It's going to be a great day.