Our story
Valerie Maumon
"The animal world has always fascinated me, and working with dogs was an obvious choice. With a background in sales and marketing, I decided to take the plunge and embark on entrepreneurship. Caring for, relieving, and improving the performance of our four-legged friends with natural products is our DNA!"
To make animals' lives better
Our tablets are real delicacies by their shape, texture and taste.
We want to offer them the best quality of life they deserve
Our vision
We believe that health does not begin with illness.
It is built every day.
Through food.
Through movement.
Through physiological balance.
Through preventive choices suited to each stage of life.
Our ambition is to change the place of prevention in animal health, so as to give animals a better quality of life and more years in good health.
Valérie is a French musher who competes in sled dog races in winter (around 40 km per heat) and trains in canicross, kart and hikes across her native Alps the rest of the year. She drives a team of pure-bred Siberian huskies in national and world competitions. Crowned French mid-distance champions in the pure-bred class, the Alpine team also won the Lekkarod in the 6-dog class, a 9-day race crossing Savoie and Haute-Savoie, the Vercors Quest over 160 km, and national championships in canicross and the 12-dog class, going on to finish 3rd in the World Cup in 2019.
“Mindful of my dogs’ overall well-being, I spent several years looking for natural products to complement the quality food they eat and help them reach our sporting goals. I carried out this search with my vet, who specialises in sporting dogs. Unable to find solutions that met all my requirements, I decided to create my own line of natural products and complementary feeds. Today I am happy to share my natural recipes, developed and made in our French Alps.”
“As a multiple French mushing champion, I learned one thing from my dogs: a high-performing dog is not the one that does the most, it is the one that has been well prepared and looked after, before, during and after exercise. One day, a great old vet told me: ‘no paws, no dog’. I have never forgotten it.”
Where it all began
Pearl and Shadow
It all began with a look. In 2006, Valérie met the eyes of Black Pearl, a Siberian husky from the Balearic Islands: love at first sight.
Pearl and Shadow are show huskies, from the exhibition lines bred for the beauty of the standard: solid bone, a dense coat, a perfect head. Dogs you expect in a show ring, not on a trail. They chose the trails.
Valérie wasn't dreaming of sleds; she wanted to hike in the mountains. Pearl followed her along every path in the surrounding ranges, his little pack on his back, his bowl and water bottle inside. So many miles.
Then Shadow came from Canada, so that Pearl would no longer be alone at home. “A warrior's mind in a doll's body.” Rebellious, independent, except when Valérie left the house. She chased Pearl across the field and never complained.
Together they did it all: canicross, bikejoring, sledding. They are the ones who brought us into the world of competition. After them came Storm, Lady, Nala, and a whole pack.
One 24 December, Shadow was losing her sight. Valérie's children gave up their presents: “Our Christmas present is Shadow's eyes.” She shared sixteen years of our lives.
Everything ELEMENT VET does comes from them.
Today, they answer you in the site's chat.
Herbal medicine
Our plant-based product ranges are the result of a search for balance between animals, humans and nature. Each of our programs for sporting animals or pets is the result of a pragmatic approach combined with scientific laboratory requirements. All our plants are rigorously selected and preferably from sustainable agriculture.
Still green!
Since the beginning of her entrepreneurial adventure, Valérie, the founder of ELEMENT VET, has always wanted to have ecological and environmentally friendly packaging for her natural products. After months of research and development to design the eco-packaging that would best preserve the care treats, here it is at last. ELEMENT VET's new pill box is 100% natural.
With our packaging, there is no over-packaging, of course. That's why the search for green packaging is long... and exciting!
