Thanks to Rob for having us and a very big thank you to all the customers for supporting us. Always enjoy seeing new and familiar faces!

It’s the interaction with people that make the business so worth while.  Seeing people active and enjoying working with their dogs and knowing that the service we strive to provide helps in some way makes us feel good and makes us work harder.

See you in March if we don’t see you sooner!

Looking forward to 2012!

- Steph

Casey: OOooOOooOooooooOOOOO!!

Claire: Yip yip yip!!

5 dollars if it’s done at the time of the making of the item (previous customers and orders will be grandfathered in to this)

10 dollars if it’s done after the fact or isn’t our product. (IE: buy a harness now and a few months down the road want something put on it)

Here’s a picture of the available fonts. Colours are basically unlimited – if we don’t have it in we’ll look for it.

I realized I never did a write up for the Cobequid Dog Show!

Here it is – a little (lot) overdue.

The Cobequid Dog Show was held at the Agridome on the Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition Grounds in Bible Hill.

First, a picture of our table set up:

Snazzy!

This was our second actual dog show (we’ve been to a few expos) and it was nice to have a better idea of what was going on. Not to mention the chance to see so many dogs!

It was great to see familiar faces and meet new people. A lot goes in to preparing a dog, handling them, helping them get ‘show ready’. In some cases that means keeping the dogs away from others before they go on. Some people practice showing in an open area, others hide from their dogs so they won’t get excited when they see their owner.

One of the things we really enjoy is the double take people do when they see the Pawtrekker scooter. Usually that’s followed by either “Wow, that’s neat” or “oh that’s not a bike.” After that we spend as much time as the person wants explaining the features and answering their questions.

Another thing that’s really pleased us is the interest in our custom harnesses. The Hunter Orange was really popular since we were heading in to hunting season as well as the Nova Scotian tartan.

The HyperFlite discs were also a hit. A few people recognized the brand and it was nice to get feedback on them.

The Agridome was a wonderful place for them to hold the show – previous years, we were told, was held in the riding ring a building over.

Add this one to the list of shows we want to go back to year after year, and we hope to see you there!

-Steph and John

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!