Joyful Holidays To You and Your Pets!

Joyful Holidays to you and thank you for stopping by our blog. Holiday preparations are in full swing and we wish you all the best at this very special time of year.

We've heard from many of our wonderful customers that their dogs are enjoying their goose down filled doggie coats. Knowing people and their pets are happy with their purchases means the world to us. Thank you for letting us know you enjoy them and keep those emails and photos coming!

If you haven't added your name to our email list yet, please do. Joy Pet Products will never flood your inbox with useless emails. We'll only send you our quarterly newsletter and products or events appropriate for you and your special pets.

We are in the process of our Winter 2007 - 2008 model search. If you are in the local MA or NH area and have a dog who is ready for her close up, do let us know! We will be having our next photo shoot this winter just as soon as our newest coat colors are in from our manufacturer. We recently met with about twenty potential models who came in for measurements and fittings. If you aren't in the local area but have one of our coats, please send a photo of your best friend in his or her goose down filled dog coat along with your written permission so that we may use the photo on our site or in our advertising. There's no airbrushing in our photos, so please send a great print quality photo and make sure your pet is very well groomed. Those selected as models will be notified. Thank you for participating.

As the weather turns colder - we had our first snowfall today - Desi is busy testing new fabric combinations for our new coat colors as well as enjoying his favorites. Here he is in his plaid and red. He's also been hard at work testing our soon to be available small breed harnesses. A ll this research requires lots of walking and playing outside, but no worries, Desi really enjoys his work!

All the best to you and thank you for being our customer. Stop by again soon for some behind the scenes photos and info from our model search!

Be Well,

Patti Wilson and Desi

October 2007

Happy Fall Everyone!

Welcome to Joy Pet Products' new blog. I'm Patti Wilson, the founder of Joy Pet Products (that's not me in the photo!) and I thought it would be a nice way to begin our blog by telling you a bit about the company and inviting you to send your ideas and thoughts directly to me. I'll add new postings about once a month or whenever there's something new to share with you.

Joy Pet Products is a small New England Company that began with our Goose Down Filled Dog Coats. Like many great ideas, the coats were originally designed to solve a problem, not with the idea of selling them or starting a business. With four Yorkies in MA, I needed something that truly kept them warm, actually fit them and that I could put on in a hurry - if you know Yorkies you don't always have a lot of warning when they need to go out. Nothing I found really worked very well for them, especially my little guy who was three and a half pounds.

One especially cold day when I was grabbing my jacket to go out I thought why not make them coats with down fill? My mother had sewn since I was a little girl and she passed the skill on to me, so I made four little coats. I had a lot to learn about working with down, but that's a subject for another day. My first four coats weren't nearly the quality that we now offer, but they did keep my four very warm, they fit and they stayed on them. My Yorkies were older then and whenever I'd have them out or at a vet's office people would always ask about the coats. People with bigger dogs with hip issues asked about them because the coats, unlike many others, cover the hip area. People with smaller breeds, short coated breeds, just about all breeds asked about them and soon it was obvious there were a lot of people who like me, had tried many coats that didn't really offer much warmth.

After several years of research and tweaking the design, the coat now has two US patents and is enjoyed by many dogs and their peoeple. It gives me great pleasure to read customers' emails and hear how the coat has helped their special pet. I'll never forget one of our first fit models. She was an older, larger mixed breed dogs with a health issue that prevented her from walking comfortably whenever it was at all cool outside. Her mom told me how much of a difference it made for her. She could actually enjoy walks again with her new coat

My Yorkies have passed on now, but of course they will forever be with me. I've since adopted a beautiful Papillon, Desi, who accompanies me to work every day. He's the VP in charge of moral and he's always happy to offer a paw with testing new designs. We recruit many other doggie models and testers too to be sure our coats and our new items currently in production work well for all sizes and shapes.

In future posts I'll be sure to include some photos and I'll do my best to include info on topics you suggest too. So once again welcome and thanks for visiting our site.

All the best,

Patti Wilson & Desi