Who writes this

Marin Okafor

Editor, dog gear and nutrition labels

Marin Okafor edits Paws & Whiskers and writes the dog side of it: food, beds, crates, carriers and grooming tools. The ingredient panel and the AAFCO statement get read before a single review does, because that back-of-bag paragraph is where two apparently identical foods stop being identical.

19 guides

Tess Lindqvist

Writer, cat products and everyday health

Tess Lindqvist writes the cat side of Paws & Whiskers, plus the health-adjacent categories where a label makes a claim the evidence has to back. The question asked of every product is the one owners actually ask at 3am: will the animal use it, and does it do the thing the box says.

19 guides

Every guide on this site carries one of these two bylines. Picks are made from the full ingredient panel or material specification, the veterinary and regulatory guidance that applies to the category, and the pattern across owner reviews at volume. Where a decision is a medical one, the guide says so and points at a vet.