Wagging Green
Since we have two dogs, Goliath, a four-year-old Toy Manchester Terrier, and Dakota, a two-year-old yellow lab, I am always looking for innovative dog products. And, Wagging Green certainly has some of the most innovative items I have ever seen.
It all began six years ago when Sonya and Sean Ryan brought home a red headed Jack Russell puppy named Gidget. Though they purchased a wide variety of collars for Gidget, they all of them made her itch. Eventually, Sonya made a collar from flannel fabric.
One turned into ten, as friends and family started asking for them, and her first company, If It Wags, was born. For five years, Sonya handmade soft, comfortable collars for dogs and cats, using cotton fabrics and webbings to create stylish, fun designs. And, yes, Gidget stopped itching.
In 2008, Sonya and Sean decided to switch to bamboo, a sustainable material.
It’s organic, renewable, soft, strong, bio-degradable, naturally antibacterial, and hypoallergenic. The only problem? It was not possible to buy quantities of bamboo webbing because it didn’t exist. With more research, Sonya was able to understand the process of making bamboo into a fiber, and fiber into a webbing material. Sonya now works with a factory that owns the necessary equipment to produce webbing and has created the first bamboo fiber webbings.
After solving the bamboo webbing issues, Sonya and Sean wanted to create “perfect designs.”
One night, while dreaming, the idea came to Sonya. She woke up and sketched a rough city, a sun and a bee and wrote, ‘give back – environmental causes, environmental designs’ into her dream journal. It was perfect, exactly what we need to make the line stand out. We could be original, cute, fun, and at the same time give back to our earth and educate our customers about the importance of caring for the environment…. We feel that our product is on the cutting edge of the next phase of the merchandise revolution because it’s not just eco friendly, it is also sustainable and has less impact on the environment than traditional petroleum and cotton based products without giving up style and strength. Every product and company can be more conscientious and still be profitable. Saving the Earth one dog at a time. That’s what we are all about!
Among the products sold at Wagging Green are a wide variety of dog and cat bamboo collars, ID tags, and dog T-shirts. And, Wagging Green is very socially responsible. Five percent of the profits are donated to organizations “working to care for the planet.”
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