![]() It dawned on McGuire that she probably wasn’t the only pilot who took her dog flying and she began to think about ways to market the Mutt Muffs. Once he was wearing the Mutt Muffs, Cooper was back to his frisky self in the airplane. They are positioned on either side of the dog’s head and held in place with an over-the-head strap and an additional strap that goes beneath the chin. The unit consists of two lozenge-shaped ear cups containing high-density foam. She developed some ideas and consulted with an engineer, who came up with a working prototype. She knew the shape of the headset would have to be different from one designed for a human and there would have to be a method of securing the headset so the dog could not pull or shake it off. There had to be a better way, McGuire reasoned, and she went to the metaphorical drawing board. The problem is that dogs will shake their heads to dislodge the plugs, use their paws to pull them out, and very often chew up the items and swallow them. Over the years dog owners have used toilet paper, cotton balls, makeup pads and even conventional earplugs designed for humans to protect their pets. She’s not the first dog owner to experiment with the idea. She thought about ways to block the noise for the dog’s ears. “I knew that level of noise had to be unhealthy for him.” “That’s so unlike him because he’s normally so energetic,” she said. Mutt Muffs was one of the new exhibitors at Sun ‘n Fun last month.Īccording to McGuire, when she took Cooper, her two-and-a-half-year-old black lab mix in the airplane, the normally frisky dog would go into the back seat and lie down. That led her to create a small business to manufacture ear protection for man’s best friend. Michele McGuire, a pilot from Maryland, likes to fly with her dog Cooper, but was concerned about the impact the noise had on him. When it comes to the needs of a pet, some people can be quite inventive - and sometimes that inventiveness can lead to a new source of income. ![]() It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention.
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