Droolworthy Meals from Ideal Balance and a Gourmet Giveaway!

There's good reason Rocco's face is all slobbery and wet!

He just dove into a bowl of Hill's Ideal Balance Braised Lamb and Vegetables Recipe and now he's begging for more!

We like feeding a combination of wet and dry food and now Ideal Balance offers a whole menu's worth of options for both dogs and cats -- including treats -- to ensure pets are getting complementary natural nutrition.

That means that the folks at Hill's have developed an entire meal line-up for dogs and cats that provides natural ingredients in perfect balance -- with no corn, wheat or soy and no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives.

And the treats look mighty tasty too in flavors like Oven-Baked Naturals with Lamb and Apricot and Soft-Baked Naturals with Duck and Pumpkin!

Rocco had a big time digging into his yummy bowl full of Ideal Balance Braised Lamb and Vegetables and now TWENTY lucky To Dog With Love readers will get the chance to win a terrific Hill's Ideal Balance gift basket filled with yummy goodies!

Enter to win a dog or cat gift basket from Hill's Ideal Balance!

A look at some of the items you might win! Dog not included.

Enter via Rafflecopter below. Twenty lucky winners will receive a totally awesome Hill's Ideal Balance dog or cat gift basket that includes the following:

Ideal Balance Dog gift basket:

• Hill's Ideal Balance Grain-Free Natural Chicken & Potato Recipe Adult -- 3.5 lb bag
• Hill's Ideal Balance wet food -- 6 cans
• Hill's Ideal Balance Treats -- 2 bags variety
• Dog bowl
• Blanket

Ideal Balance Cat gift basket:

• Hill's Ideal Balance Grain-Free Natural Chicken & Potato Recipe Adult -- 2 lb bag
• Hill's Ideal Balance wet food variety pack -- 6 cans case
• Hill's Ideal Balance Crunchy Naturals with Real Tuna
• Cat bowl
• Place mat

Entries open to U.S. only.  Good luck! 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Disclosure: I have been compensated for completion of this article. Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. is not responsible for the content of this article.

Hill's Ideal Balance: Behind the Scenes

I love looking behind the scenes... whether it's taking a peak behind the scenes of the making of a commercial or learning about the making of a new line of dog food.

Today we're going to show you a little bit of both!

The Making of New Hill's Ideal Balance Dog and Cat Food

If you've been shopping for pet food recently, you may have noticed something new from Hill's that doesn't look anything like the company's other brands.

Its pretty packaging with a burst of daybreak behind the silhouette of a dog or cat sets it apart from other brands. And Hill's Ideal Balance, the new, natural pet food recipes for dogs and cats, is different in other ways too.

Hill's sought significant consumer input on its pet food to better understand what pet parents wanted in a natural pet food. Ingredients such as fresh fruits, vegetables and meat-based protein were on the tops of their lists, while ingredients like corn, wheat and soy ranked lower.

Hill's listened to consumers who stressed that they wanted more from their pet food than the same ingredients other brands offered -- they wanted those ingredients in the correct proportions.

From there, the pet nutritionists at Hill's developed a recipe with a careful selection of high quality, natural ingredients to create great tasting pet food recipes with optimal levels of over 50 nutrients. That means it was formulated with not too much and not too little of the key ingredients that help promote your pet's best health -- the key ingredients consumers said they wanted.

Hill's Ideal Balance has no corn, wheat, soy, artificial colors, flavors or preservatives, and it provides perfectly balanced natural nutrition, guaranteed.

Pet parents have already given Ideal Balance lots of great reviews and you can read some of them here.

We'd like to join this little guy on his journey
to Ideal Balance, what a pretty path! 

Introducing the Hill's Ideal Balance TV Commercial

We love the blend of live action with animation that brings the story of Ideal Balance to life in these TV spots.

In separate commercials, a dog and a cat journey through the balanced elements that make up Ideal Balance: Perfect proportions of what pets need to be healthy -- not too much, not too little.

Take a look at the making of "Not Too Much, Not Too Little," the story of a journey to Ideal Balance!

Try Hills' Ideal Balance for Free!

Hill’s website offers all sorts of information on the products, including where you can purchase them, online or in your neighborhood – and you can even try it free with this rebate offer! (From the rebate offer link, click on "Discover Perfectly Balanced Food for Your Dog OR Your Cat" and then scroll down to find the rebate offer.)

Disclaimer:  I was compensated for completion of this article. Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. is not responsible for the content of this article.