Hopta

Issue 014 · Spring ’26 · Made fresh in Vermont

Real food.
Happy tails,
every two weeks.

Hopta is a small-batch fresh-food subscription for dogs and cats — real chicken, wild Alaskan salmon, organic sweet potato, blueberries, and nothing that needs a chemistry degree to pronounce. Cooked low, packed cold, sent to your door.

Build your plan Peek the kitchen
34,210 Bowls served
4.9 / 5 Across 6,400 reviews
14 day Money-back tail wag
Golden retriever puppy looking up, sunlit outdoor portrait
Today's drop Chicken & sweet potato bowl, ready in 90 seconds.

Made the way you'd cook it
in your own kitchen.

We started Hopta after our 11-year-old beagle Maple lost her appetite. The vet said "try real food." She did. So we built a kitchen that does it for everyone else's pets too.

Real meat first.

USDA-inspected chicken, beef, lamb, salmon, and turkey. Always the first ingredient. Never "meal" or "by-product."

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Whole vegetables.

Sweet potato, carrots, kale, blueberries, pumpkin. Cut, steamed, blended — never powdered or extruded.

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Cooked low, packed cold.

Low-temp gentle cook preserves nutrients. We portion, blast-freeze, and ship in insulated mailers within 48 hours.

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Built around your pet.

Tell us their breed, age, weight, allergies, activity level. We portion meals to the gram, vet-checked for AAFCO complete & balanced.

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Delivered every two weeks.

Free shipping, dry-ice cold, on a schedule that matches your pantry. Skip a week, change a recipe, cancel anytime.

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Three meal plans.
Pick what fits the bowl.

Pricing per pound · 14-day starter from $34

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The Daily Bowl

Fresh, fully-cooked meals portioned to your dog's exact daily calorie target. Five rotating recipes — chicken, beef, lamb, turkey, salmon. Ships frozen every 14 days.

$3.20/ meal
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Pastel bowl filled with crunchy kibble pieces Topper

The Topper

A daily fresh-food topper to mix into your existing kibble. The easy upgrade — half the cost, same real ingredients, picky-eater approved.

$2.40/ meal
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The Cat Pâté

High-protein, grain-free wet food made with chicken, salmon, and tuna. Paté-style, taurine-fortified, vet-formulated for indoor cats & seniors.

$2.90/ meal
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How it works · 04 simple steps

Tell us about your pet. We do all the cooking.

01

Tell us about them.

Breed, age, weight, allergies, activity level. Takes about ninety seconds.

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We build the plan.

Our nutritionists set a daily calorie target and pick five recipes that fit.

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We cook & pack cold.

Small-batch cook in our Burlington kitchen. Blast-frozen and shipped in 48 hours.

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Open, thaw, serve.

Pop a pack in the fridge the night before. 90 seconds in warm water and dinner is on.

From the Hopta kitchen

Ingredients you'd
actually eat.

Every recipe uses USDA-inspected meat, organic vegetables, and whole grains (or grain-free, if your pet's tummy needs it). No mystery meal, no artificial preservatives, no rendered fats.

  • Wild Alaskan salmon
  • Free-range chicken
  • Grass-fed beef
  • Organic sweet potato
  • Wild blueberries
  • Cold-pressed flaxseed
  • Heirloom carrots
  • Local Vermont pumpkin
Golden retriever chewing a stick outdoors
Bone-shaped biscuits in a stainless bowl
Happy dog with tongue out
Hopta treats scattered on a wood surface
Fluffy white cat portrait
Stainless steel bowl with treats

Pet parents talk. Their pets eat.

4.9 / 5 from 6,400 reviews

Verified · 4 months

"Maple is twelve and ate Hopta the first time without sniffing. She used to need her bowl topped with chicken stock just to start. Now she runs to the kitchen."

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Sofia M.
Maple · beagle, 12
Verified · 8 months

"Switched from kibble after our vet flagged Bruno's weight. Down 3.2 kg in six months and his coat is shiny again. The portions take all the guesswork out."

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Devon K.
Bruno · french bulldog, 6
Verified · 2 years

"The cat pâté is honestly more carefully made than half my groceries. Pixel inhales it."

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Aanya R.
Pixel · domestic shorthair, 4

FAQ · the small print

Quick answers, honest answers.

Yes. Every recipe meets or exceeds AAFCO nutritional guidelines for the life stage it's labeled for, and every formula is signed off by board-certified veterinary nutritionists. The full nutrient panel for each recipe is on the product page.
We ship every 14 days in an insulated, recyclable box with dry ice. Your meals arrive frozen — pop them in the freezer, and thaw a pack in the fridge the night before serving. Free shipping in the continental US.
Yes. Skip a week, swap recipes, change portion size, or cancel — all from your account in two clicks. No phone calls, no email gauntlet, no "are you sure" guilt trip.
14-day tail-wag guarantee. If your pet doesn't dive in, we'll swap recipes for free or refund your starter box. We've had a 96% stick rate so far, but we'd rather you have the safety net.
USDA-inspected meat from regional farms in Vermont, New York, and Maine. Wild-caught Alaskan salmon. Organic produce from the Burlington Farmers Market when in season. Full sourcing list available on request.
Not yet — we're a Vermont kitchen, and we ship continental US only for now. Get on the waitlist and we'll let you know when we expand north or across the pond.

Build a happy
bowl today.

Two-minute quiz, vet-formulated plan, first box on your doorstep in five days.

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