Surprise!

Surprise! Bet you didn't count on seeing any more posts on here I bet.

The main reason we sold the business - this little guy,
who is not enjoying santa

Well, I was feeling a little nostalgic since the website is about to go away, and I battled whether or not to shut down the blog. It just seemed so wrong with all of the hard work we had poured into this blog, trying to create content that informed as well as educated our users on the pet food industry, where we were taking the store, research into the food science of pet food. 25,000 blog reads later and the store is gone. We really thought that Dena would carry the torch beyond 2011. I would be suing here right now for the money she skipped out on paying us if her grooming business was still open. Oh well - lesson I learned for being nice and allowing someone to pay me in installments. That wont happen again. What a piece of work.

I would also think twice about doing business with Sudden Values again. They were super nice right up until it came to pay us for all of those stupid half price gift certificates they sold and we had honored. I apologize to anyone that got bamboozled by them. It sounded like a great way to reach new customers when they pitched us the idea. But, I just couldn't let the Sudden Values article be the last article on the blog.

So much has changed in the last two years. I hear (I have not been there yet) that we have a puppy mill store in Rogers now. I see emails from Toni every now and again organizing a boycott or protest. Oh, the good ole days. NWAAR got their mobile clinic, and Shauna is now the director of the Washington Cty animal shelter. We keep telling ourselves that we are going to go to the next dog park event, and then it arrives and we are exhausted from keeping up with shortypants that we cannot muster the troupe into the car. I can say that I miss seeing all of the dogparkers, our customers and friends, and the pet community in large.

I'm not sure we would have made it much longer in the end. Trolling through the pet isles now, I see a lot more companies have gotten on the bandwagon of healthy baked treats for dogs, and when you mass produce them, it's hard to compete on their price points. It's too bad - Bigwag was a business I would have enjoyed owning for some time I think. The winds change and then it's gone. You can always count on the change, for it is the one thing that is constant.

Well, I have sufficiently pushed the Sudden Values post to no longer the first post any longer. Mission accomplished. I hope everyone is doing famously.

-- Cary