DOG STORIES + TRAVEL TIPS
Chasing Tales
DOG STORIES
Ever wonder why dogs formed into packs? Why they agreed to wear collars? What it's like to roam the hills in search of creatures? Enjoy these fun, light, heartwarming stories and tips for travel with your dog.
How to Train Your Dog to Ride a Motorcycle
If you’ve already built your Cockpit dog carrier, let’s leap into the 12 steps we followed to train our German Shepherd to ride a motorcycle
The Shar-Pei x Retriever with a Jealous Streak
Among her litter, Lola was the only pup to emerge with the classic Shar-Pei features: the wrinkles and the small, folded ears. From her...
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How Mini Helped Moxie
She sort of looked like Moxie – a smaller, sable version of Moxie. Probably a cross between a husky and German Shepherd mix. She was...
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Our Ruff Road to Get Here
To pursue the path towards becoming our most vibrant selves, To be unafraid to live the life of our daydreams, To embrace those whose...
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3 Tips for Helping Your Dog and Holiday Guests to Get Along
The holiday season is approaching! Thanksgiving, like many other holidays, is a time for plenty of food, friends and family...and stress....
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Dare to Step Outside
The Step Outside design belongs to our Quintessence collection. Quintessence means the absolute ideal version of something and we think...
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I Will Remember the Promise
Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you find the right dog waiting for you along your path. Or maybe she finds you. Either way it forms a bond...
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A Win for Everyone Involved
With all the wisdom and certainty of recent college graduates, Jess and I knew for certain that, if you want to do something to make a...
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As Far as the Nose Could Sniff
It’s a very fine question, Cooper, my young pup: why it is that we form ourselves into packs. Why it is that we aren’t lone like the...
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A Woman, an Adventure Motorcycle, and her German Shepherd Copilot
To be honest, I was really anxious about riding with a passenger on the back. While I had put over 40,000 miles on my motorcycle, the...
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Dogs in the Days of the Grandparents
Brown-coated Randy is never happier than when roaming the hills in search of smells and small critters. His person, Nicolás, tends to the...
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Let Your Paws Take You There
It’s how we describe the inspiration that has defined our road. It led us to Africa where we met as aid workers. It led us to pack our...
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It's Knots So Simple after All
The road to any great achievement is paved by one small footstep after another. Each in itself is hardly more than a droplet but taken...
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When You're Not Afraid to Dirty Your Paws
The Dirty Your Paws design belongs to our Quintessence collection. Quintessence means the absolute ideal version of something and we...
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Some Had the Bad Luck
Some had the bad luck to be born on the street; some had the bad luck to be adopted by undeserving owners; some had the bad luck to be...
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The Dogs Roamed Unleashed and Completely Bare Neck-ed
“I’ll tell you this, Cooper, my son, third pup among my first mate's second litter. They say that in the days of my great grandmother’s...
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10 Ways to Help Your Dog Feel Safe While You Celebrate the Land of the Free
When it comes to fireworks, most dogs would agree with founding father Thomas Paine’s dog that “these are the time that try dog's souls."
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Our 7 Tips for Ruff Camping with Your Dog
Watching as your pup discovers all those new smells and chases all those strange, new critters makes camping as a pack a uniquely...
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In the Shade of the Big Tree
Joe has been very sad since I left. That makes me sad too, even though it’s hard to be sad where I am now because it’s such a good, happy...
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That's the Quintessence
Have you ever stopped and noticed something that made you think, ‘Now that’s exactly how it should be’? If so, then you’ve experienced...
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Style, Comfort, and Utility - with a Twist
When it comes to good communication, we all agree that being direct is usually best. But when it comes to solving a problem, hitting it...
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We Are Stronger for the Companions on Our Path
The Be My Beastie design is part of our Knots So Simple collection. Each hand-tied knot that comprises the macramé ribbon seems simple...
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You Look Nice but I'm Not that Easy
While Ash is running through the park, at the beach, or heading down the trail with his huge smile and tongue hanging out of his mouth,...
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Obvious and Not So Obvious Checklist of Tips for Camping with Your K9
There are few things as rewarding – for you and for your pup – as spending a few days camping in the wild places. New sites, new sounds,...
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