Gift idea: Your dog’s face on your own socks
With a scant 10 days left until Christmas, we present item No. 3 on our abbreviated list of gifts only a dog lover could love.
Pupsocks are socks for your feet (not your dog’s) that are emblazoned with a photo of your dog.
They are being offered, at $30 a pair, by an Atlanta company that says a portion of their profits (unspecified) goes to helping animals.
“Our products help you share love for your pet, and behind the scenes we spread that love with others! As such, every pair sold feeds a dog or cat in need. In only six months, we’ve been able to support thousands of meals.”
The company, according to its website, supports Ahimsa House which is dedicated to helping the human and animal victims of domestic violence in Georgia, and the Humane Society of the United States.
To order the socks, you can go to the website, upload a photo of your dog, or cat, or human, and specify the size and color you want.
As with our previous wacky dog-related gifts — those pit bull leggings and matching dog and human pajamas — this is in no way a recommendation for the product; rather it’s an idea flung out there for your cautious perusal.
The company will also put your dog’s photo on a tie.
Of course, there are few things you can’t get your dog’s picture on these days. From coffee mugs to blankets, from tote bags to Christmas tree ornaments, you can find a company to pepper almost any wearable or usable item with your dog’s image.
I had Ace’s photo put on a sweatshirt and a blanket, both of which were gifts to my father, and both of which I got back after my father’s death.
I break out the blanket regularly, and I still wear the Ace sweatshirt — sent to me by the nursing home my dad spent his last days in, complete with his name marked on to the collar.
Socks are about the last thing, clothing-wise, I would think of putting my dog’s photo on.
But rest assured there are plenty of entrepreneurs out there who will keep coming up with ways to make a buck off of our love for dogs, and particularly our love for our own dog.
And more often than not, we will lap it up.
Here are a few more websites that offer to put your pet’s photo on stuff:
(Photos: From the Pupsocks website)
Posted by John Woestendiek December 15th, 2017 under Muttsblog.
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