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I just wanted to take a minute to thank everyone.  2011 was our best year ever!  After three years in business things are really picking up.  Thank you!   It gives us great joy to think of the the dogs out there whose lives are a little fuller because of the activities they are doing with their people and gear that came from our store.

Looking forward to 2012!

- Steph

Casey: OOooOOooOooooooOOOOO!!

Claire: Yip yip yip!!

Well it’s been a little over a week since the Halifax Kennel Club Dog Show and I’m finally getting a chance to write about it.

First we want to say thank you to Mark Grant for giving us a chance to do a small demonstration of the scooter just before the Alaskan Malamute Club of Canada specialty show. We also want to thank Kathleen Corkum from Edgemere Kennels for volunteering Miss Kitty to us. Despite being groomed for show Kathleen let us harness her up and pull the scooter around. We can’t adequately put in to words how much this meant to us.

We set up shop in vendor alley on Friday displaying our Hyperflight discs, walking belts, harnesses, Musher’s Secret, Pawtrek scooter and for the first time our kick sled. We had more than that but you can see all that in the catalogue.

Naturally the show, vendor wise, was a little slow starting – I guess not many people felt like shopping at 8:30 am and the people showing their dogs were getting set up and their dogs groomed. This gave us a chance to get to know our neighbours. Now I think the worst thing I could do is leave someone out but I want to mention one person in particular and I’ll add links to as many as I can soon.

Instead we just want to mention Dorris Heffron, author of City Wolves. She was there selling signed copies of her book with all the proceeds going to the Halifax Kennel Club who in turn donated it to the Halifax Police Force’s K-9 Unit to help fund vests for their dogs.

We had a really great time at the show, got to meet all kinds of people and got to get our name out there a little more. We’re building this business slow on purpose because we want to be confident in our product and offer things that we use.

This was our first time at an official dog show. We’d been to expos before where people brought their dogs and visited the vendors, but this was the first time we’d been to a show where dogs were being judged. We learned quite a bit about the process – talk about a whole different world!

It was also great to meet Dennis and his Carol the owners of the dog that sired our Claire.

We really had a fantastic time, got to see a lot of dogs, talk about our products with pride, and meet a pile of genuinely nice people.

Looking forward to going to more!