About us

After adopting Dave, my first greyhound, I started to make him coats. Finding it difficult to locate what I wanted in the generic market, and having problems with fit because of a greyhound's body shape, it was a natural progression from my professional training -designing human clothes- to doing the same with hound gear. Other greyhound owners saw what I was doing and wanted caff 10 coats for their hounds.

From there I got on board with Greyhounds as Pets NZ and began making coats, collars and raincoats for them to sell. 

Here I am today, with a website dedicated to high quality, unique, handcrafted hound gear, made in New Zealand for our beautiful adopted greys. The products are as functional as they are fashionable, and will keep your dogs warm and cosy or dry. I try to use as many upcycled and natural materials as I can - both for the environment, and because the natural fading and worn-in-ness adds to the coats' aesthetic. Because of my background in fashion design and manufacture you can rest assured all the coats are made to the highest professional standards.

There were 3 gorgeous retired racing greyhounds who shared my home, now 2: Diggity Dave (Danato), Hearty who was unraced and came to me age 1 and  RIP 30.04.2009 - 26.03.2020 beautiful gentle blue Bella ( Rhyme in Melody ).Sometimes they are in the mood to model and some(most)times they are not.

Each year I support rehoming groups, the foster dogs and rescue centres with donations of coats and jammies and $.  I also support a local pound here in the Waikato. In 2021 a local dog froze to death after being outside all night in winter. I was so saddened by this.   I fund raised and thanks to all the generous people was able to donate over 100 coats to our local community house for them to give to dogs in need.