Why Wagging Green?
We have created the first 100% bamboo fiber pet product line! We are dedicated to reducing a pet’s eco footprint, our eco footprint, and also giving back to the earth by dedicating 5% of our profits to important environmental issues.
All our products are hand sewn in North America with attention to strength, detail, and comfort for the pet. Our dedication to our local communities will never change, and we appreciate their help in creating these wonderful products. Our webbing is all natural, undyed 100% Organic bamboo to ensure that nothing but natural is next to your pet’s skin.
What are you passionate about? Each design supports an important green issue affecting our environment and our world today. Choose your favorite and help your pet save the Earth! Come on, feel good about buying! Choose Wagging Green!
The Wagging Green Story
6 years ago, Sonya and Sean fell in love with a spunky little Red headed Jack Russell puppy named Gidget. On the way home, they stopped at the local pet shop to buy her food, a collar and leash, toys and treats. They quickly found that she hated wearing her collar! Every time she wore it, she itched at her neck. Sonya and Sean bought her leather collars and nylon collars, thick collars and thin collars and she still kept itching! Sonya noticed that all the collars they could find were either hard or stiff, or made with synthetic fibers. People don’t wear stiff fabrics and all synthetic fibers! That would be hot and uncomfortable! Still, she could not find a comfortable, breathable collar for her little puppy anywhere! She decided to make one out of cotton Flannel fabric. One turned into 10 as friends and family started asking for them, and her first company, If It Wags, was born!
For 5 years, Sonya handmade soft, comfortable collars for dogs and cats using cotton fabrics and webbings to create stylish, fun designs. And yes, Gidget stopped itching!
In 2008, Sonya and Sean were having a conversation about the importance of sustainable fibers, recycling, and investing in renewable resources to create a cleaner and safer earth. Sonya suddenly had the idea of making eco friendly pet products! After research, it became clear that Bamboo fiber is the perfect material to create pet products with. It’s organic, renewable, soft, strong, bio-degradable, naturally anti-bacterial, and hypoallergenic! The only problem? It was not possible to just buy quantities of bamboo webbing because it didn’t exist! With more research, Sonya was able to understand the process of making bamboo into a fiber, and fiber into a webbing material. Wagging Green was then able to file a patent for the process of creating bamboo fiber webbing! Sonya now works with a factory that owns the necessary equipment to produce webbing and has created the first bamboo fiber webbing! It even has a 2000lb breaking strength, which is comparable to standard nylon webbing, stronger than cotton, and it doesn’t stretch like hemp. Lucky Pets!
The next challenge was to create the perfect designs. One night while dreaming, the idea came to Sonya! She woke up and sketched a rough city, a sun and a bee and wrote “give back- environmental causes, environmental designs” into her dream journal. It was perfect, exactly what we needed to make the line stand out! We could be original, cute, fun, and at the same time give back to our earth AND educate our customers about the importance of caring for the environment! With this idea as the foundation to work with, the designs were easy to create as there are countless important environmental causes, and with Sean’s design skills the complete vision came to life! Our company was born!
We feel that our product is on the cutting edge of the next phase of the merchandise revolution because it’s not just eco friendly, its also is sustainable and has less impact on the environment than traditional petroleum and cotton based products without giving up style and strength! Every product and company CAN be more conscientious and still be profitable.
Saving the Earth one dog at a time, that’s what we are all about!
About Our Designers
Sonya Ryan has a BA in Fashion Design and Merchandising from the Chamberlyn School of Design and Merchandising. Although equipped with a sewing machine and an eye for color, for almost 10 years Sonya was distracted away from design and became a retail fashion buyer. It wasn't until she brought home a beautiful little puppy that she was again inspired to drag out her dusty sewing machine and create stylish fashion - this time for pets!
Sean Ryan has been a graphic designer for over 10 years. He studied Environmental Science and Geographic Information Systems at UMass Boston. Sean developed the look of our products, marketing materials and website.
