Hi Everyone,
My name is Spiffy Dog and I know you can read my profile to find out all about me, but I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce myself. I am an Alaskan husky and live in a place called Steamboat Springs in Colorado in the USA. Steamboat is a beautiful mountain spa town, and it is believed that there are more of us dogs than human in the area. How cool is that!! I am part of the Grizzle T racing team and if you are in Stemaboat, please come and join me mushing. Take a look at their website www.
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s also famous as a ski area and my human friends, just love the mountain and getting out and enjoying the lovely powder snow. We proudly boast that Steamboat has bred more Olympian skiers than any US ski town. Our best know champion is Billy Kidd (left) who won silver in the 1960s and is now the director of our ski school.
In 2001, here in our spa town a very unusual dog collar was invented by my friends at a local company called Fat Eddies that they called the air collar. It was made of a material called aerospacer that my human friends tell is the same material that they have in their trainer shoes. When they showed it to me I could not believe my eyes as it looked so soft and in a really cool design. I was asked to try it on and I told them that it had to be the world's most comfortable dog collar! Trialing iot over a perid of time, I came to realise that in the snow and the wet it was really quick-drying and breathable so did not get smelly like other collars I had worn, it was also really quick drying.
In time they decided to market these collars on a big scale and name the company after me, so here we are at Spiffy Dog. As time has gone on other great products have joined the range and I have to say that I love everything that they sell. Check out www.Spiffydog.co.uk
Last year my friends at Spiffy Dog told me that there was a European Spiffy Dog company setting up and I was so excited to hear that our fantastic collars and leads were crossing the Atlantic and that English, French, German, Irish dogs would be able to enjoy these products too.
The owners of Spiffy Dog in the UK have asked me to be your guide and keep you up to date as to what is happening in the company, and also what is happening in my home town, especially with the Winter Olympics coming up. I am hoping that a few Steamboat medals are won.
On a personal note I am also very excited about the upcoming Iditarod, the world's longest dog sled race from Alaska to Nome It’s unlike any other event in the world. A race over 1,150 miles of the most extreme and beautiful terrain known to man: across mountain ranges, frozen rivers, dense forests, desolate tundra and windswept coastline ... I am hoping one day to compete in this race myself. I will keep you abreast with all of this, but in the meantime check out www.iditarod.com.
Finally I am thrilled to be able to tell you that at the end of last year Pet Product Marketing Magazine named us in the Top 15 product launches for 2009. Here is a short excerpt;
"The Spiffy Dog Air Collar is made from a soft, lightweight and quick-drying fabric called Aerospacer, enhancing a range that brings the latest in dog collar technology to the UK. Aerospacer is best known as the material trainers are made from, so it is soft, and comfortable for dogs, especially the short-haired varieties."
Editor's comment "Wow! This collar is really soft. Chances are the dogs won't even know they are wearing them."
Until next time enjoy the snow!
Wag those Tails
Spiffy
What a week ... the team and I have been up in Montana racing whilst the UK team have been in Stafford at the Manchester Dog show. What a great 4 days they had there, met so many fantastic dogs, especially a number of Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers. These are the most amazing dogs with wonderful personalities. My friend Arapahoe also told me that she had a fantastic time meeting huskies who came by to the stand to say hello, especially the grey husky bitch whose mother kept feeding her chicken!!
