Marketing Musings of a Dog Enthusiast
The New York Times is collecting comments regarding the city’s poop scoop law for Michael Brandow, who recently published a book titled “New York’s Poop Scoop Law: Dogs, Dirt and Due Process,” Mr Brandow will answer the questions in Wednesday’s (Jan 7) edition of the paper. Sounds like a in interesting book regarding the presence … Read more
Tim O’Reilly’s twitter alerted me to a new article on cloned dogs in the New York Times. The Korean lab that first cloned an Afgan hound 3 years ago is still at it, and his article profiles 4 dogs cloned from “Missy” a border collie – husky mix. As a dog breeder, the cloning of … Read more
The Detroit Free Press published an article about upscale pet retailers today which finds that sector is performing well despite the economic woes of the Detroit meto area. The store profiled for most of the article, Teacups and Toys, sells both upscale merchandise and dogs to wear it. I’m not a fan of the sales … Read more
Having recently been encouraged to use Twitter, I’ve started my usual obsessive learning curve with any new thing of interest. After signing up to follow my friends and some leading lights of the tech world and web analytics, I turned my attention to finding other dog fanciers. Which led me to the Dog Show Secret … Read more
This morning NPR aired a story about a humane society auction of toy breed puppies seized at the LA airport. The puppies, imported from South Korea, were accompanied by forged documents stating the five week old puppies were 5 months old and had had the required innoculations for importation. Of the 30 dogs in the … Read more
Packaged Facts continues to churn out pet food industry research with their latest report, “Health, Humanization and High Quality Ingredients” An excerpt from the product description page: “At the same time, one thing marketers and retailers at all levels of the market cannot afford given the faltering U.S. and global economies is complacency. More than … Read more
Thanks again to MediaPost, JetBlue announces an in-cabin pet policy called JetPaws which is essentially a set of rules for flying with small pets in the cabin. Total weight of pet and carrier cannot exceed 20 pounds and there is absolutely no mention of whether or not larger pets are accepted on the airline at … Read more
Small world department, Rhonda Collins, who I met at a Motor City Connect networking event mentioned she has connections to Dara Foster, originally from Michigan, who writes the PupStyle blog and who recently appeared on the Today show. I missed the show, actually I’m not much of one for dressing my own dogs up, although … Read more
Interesting article in MediaPost today regarding promotions. One of the featured products was a new movie from Paramount titled “Hotel for Dogs” which was sponsoring on site dog care in the Westfield Century City mall near Los Angeles. Dog care is provided by a local rescue group and free for 4 hours, afterwards it’s $10 … Read more
I love to draw, and I’ve thought about opening a Cafe Press shop for ages. With the help of a friend who digitized my art work, I’ve opened two basic shops that carry my kennel name, Nuance. The Woof shop features a line drawing of a white Bull Terrier with the caption “What part of … Read more