Mark T. Smucker
President and Chief Executive Officer at J. M. Smucker
Sure, Steve. So first of all, as we talked last quarter, and this will probably be a little bit repetitious. Our pet strategy, you'll recall, is really contingent on three legs of the stool. The first and priority is pet snacks because we are the leader in pet snacks and continuing to direct resources to our pet snacks business. Our cat food business, where we are a solid number two, and Meow Mix has experienced significant growth, continues to see quarter-over-quarter growth even sequentially. And so those two clearly, where we have stronger leadership positions, are priorities. And then, of course, the third leg is our dog food, where we are not as much in a leadership position and recognize that and acknowledged last quarter that we are not going to experience the same level of growth on our dog food business as we would on the other. But it still serves an important role.
Nutrish, specifically, albeit a relatively small portion, did do well in the quarter with about 5% growth total over the entire brand. And actually, dry dog saw about 4 -- 1% growth, sorry, in the quarter. So we did experience some growth, and we remain committed, if you recall, to the entire Nutrish brand, which includes both snacks as well as some wet products as well.
And let me correct myself. I thought I was right, 4% was our growth on dry dog. So we did have a solid quarter on dry dog on Nutrish this quarter.