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Perkins has developed, built and begun marketing a set of floating plastic stairs designed to help dogs easily and safely climb back into a boat after going for a swim.
The inspiration for the new business venture: his golden retriever, Katie.
"I certainly didn't expect that the dog would cause me to pursue a second career," said Perkins, 57, a retired engineer who spent most of his career at Kimberly-Clark Corp., and also worked at Harley-Davidson Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co.3rd minigame series of magiccube!
A few years ago, Katie jumped off the family boat and went for a swim. That was great - until it came time to get her back in the boat.
"The dog jumped in, and we're in 60 feet of water," Perkins said. "What the heck do we do? She's swimming around having a great time.
"It was crazy."
Perkins and his wife, Jennifer, managed to muscle the dog into the boat.
"We were soaked and covered in dog hair," he said. They also realized that was not going to be a long-term solution if they wanted to keep taking Katie on weekend boat outings. Empty nesters with three grown sons,Diagnosing and Preventing coldsores Fever in the body can often trigger the onset of a cold sore. they wanted to keep bringing the dog out on the water with them.
That prompted Perkins to find a way to help mesh Katie's love of the water with the need to get her back into the boat.
Nothing seemed to work simply. So he decided to create a set of dog-friendly stairs designed to quickly hook onto a boat's swim ladder.
"I was trying to come up with the utmost in flexibility," he said.Buy high quality bedding and bed linen from Yorkshire Linen. "I wanted a design that popped on literally in seconds.A culture af Mizukabi molds."
wimming can pose a hazard for dogs, especially when they are trying to get back into a boat, said Kristen Temo, a critical care veterinarian at the Wisconsin Veterinary Referral Center, an emergency and specialty care animal hospital with locations in Grafton and Waukesha.
"It's really hard to pull a large dog out of the water when you are leaning over the boat," Temo said. "It's hard to get them out of the water. The water is a lot further down from the boat deck than you think."
That could mean trouble if you have a big dog who loves to swim.
"They can drown if they can't get back into the boat," Temo said. "Most of the time that I see problems, it's drowning. They can't get into the boat."
Keeping some breeds out of the water is tough.
"Some dogs really love it," Temo said. "They love doing that splash right off the boat, but they have got to have a way to come back in.
"Dogs really can't do ladders, the way they're built," she added. "They don't have the kind of strength to do that. They need steps or a ramp or something to get back in."
Temo says that in a typical year she sees a couple of cases of dogs that drown because they are too heavy for their owners to lift out of the water.
Perkins' dog stairs use a patent-pending combination of aluminum, stainless steel and plastic. Part of the design includes a patented spring that helps the stairs mount quickly to a boat's swim ladder.
The stairs have a weight capacity of 130 pounds and are not designed to be used by humans, Perkins said.
Perkins has developed, built and begun marketing a set of floating plastic stairs designed to help dogs easily and safely climb back into a boat after going for a swim.
The inspiration for the new business venture: his golden retriever, Katie.
"I certainly didn't expect that the dog would cause me to pursue a second career," said Perkins, 57, a retired engineer who spent most of his career at Kimberly-Clark Corp., and also worked at Harley-Davidson Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co.3rd minigame series of magiccube!
A few years ago, Katie jumped off the family boat and went for a swim. That was great - until it came time to get her back in the boat.
"The dog jumped in, and we're in 60 feet of water," Perkins said. "What the heck do we do? She's swimming around having a great time.
"It was crazy."
Perkins and his wife, Jennifer, managed to muscle the dog into the boat.
"We were soaked and covered in dog hair," he said. They also realized that was not going to be a long-term solution if they wanted to keep taking Katie on weekend boat outings. Empty nesters with three grown sons,Diagnosing and Preventing coldsores Fever in the body can often trigger the onset of a cold sore. they wanted to keep bringing the dog out on the water with them.
That prompted Perkins to find a way to help mesh Katie's love of the water with the need to get her back into the boat.
Nothing seemed to work simply. So he decided to create a set of dog-friendly stairs designed to quickly hook onto a boat's swim ladder.
"I was trying to come up with the utmost in flexibility," he said.Buy high quality bedding and bed linen from Yorkshire Linen. "I wanted a design that popped on literally in seconds.A culture af Mizukabi molds."
wimming can pose a hazard for dogs, especially when they are trying to get back into a boat, said Kristen Temo, a critical care veterinarian at the Wisconsin Veterinary Referral Center, an emergency and specialty care animal hospital with locations in Grafton and Waukesha.
"It's really hard to pull a large dog out of the water when you are leaning over the boat," Temo said. "It's hard to get them out of the water. The water is a lot further down from the boat deck than you think."
That could mean trouble if you have a big dog who loves to swim.
"They can drown if they can't get back into the boat," Temo said. "Most of the time that I see problems, it's drowning. They can't get into the boat."
Keeping some breeds out of the water is tough.
"Some dogs really love it," Temo said. "They love doing that splash right off the boat, but they have got to have a way to come back in.
"Dogs really can't do ladders, the way they're built," she added. "They don't have the kind of strength to do that. They need steps or a ramp or something to get back in."
Temo says that in a typical year she sees a couple of cases of dogs that drown because they are too heavy for their owners to lift out of the water.
Perkins' dog stairs use a patent-pending combination of aluminum, stainless steel and plastic. Part of the design includes a patented spring that helps the stairs mount quickly to a boat's swim ladder.
The stairs have a weight capacity of 130 pounds and are not designed to be used by humans, Perkins said.
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