New Flexible
Dog Treat Pouch

What a Great Idea . . . A Flexible Dog Treat Pouch
How Did You Come Up with Treat Keep?

"The Treat Keep Story . . . How The Revolutionary New Dog Training Tool and Dog Treat Bag Began"

The creator of Treat Keep® is Barb Larson who has been in the Dog Grooming Business for over 20 years.  She went to Professional Grooming School in Wisconsin and then moved with her husband to Los Angeles.

What an experience she had grooming dogs in California. She and another groomer joined together. After finding a mobile grooming van, they went to Hollywood and groomed many celebrities along with television and movie industry executives. She would come home everyday with new stories of the various celebrities and their dogs. Doing 20 to 25 dogs a day was not an easy job, but the fun she had seeing the different stars, their homes and dogs made up for all the hard work.

  After she and her husband moved to Colorado, she became very active in the dog show circuit. As you can see, she loves working with her two Border Terriers Stanley and Lois. As she continued to show and finish her dogs, she also did a lot of grooming.

  She was always asked if she had any dog training tips or ideas. You can also find more dog training tips and ideas at www.themommadog.com 

One thing that kept bugging her was keeping her dog treats handy. So, she began to research and design an easy to use flexible dog treat dispenser that she could use at shows and when grooming and training dogs. So Treat Keep® was born as a Great Dog Treat Pouch.

After researching extensively for a flexible pouch, she found a company that could make one similar to the old change purses that when you press the sides together it pops open. What luck!.

The Pouch is Large Enough To Fit In Your Hand!

Plus, finding the retractable reel was not easy.  After discovering you can import these from the Far East, it truly was a new experience dealing with Chinese companies that speak very little English.  But, it all came together.

OK, so now she wanted to produce 20,000 Treat Keeps®  to sell to dog owners, pet sitters and clubs.

Wait a Minute . . .

How Do You Assemble 20,000 Units Without Going Crazy?

When Barb sat down and assembled the clip on the reel and then attached it to the pouch and then placed them in a colorful merchandising card and then placed them into shipping cases, she threw her hands up in the air and screamed "This will take ten years to do". Oh being a entrepreneur isn't as easy as everyone thinks.

The Dear Lord Sent Northern Hills Disability Training Center!

What a blessing we found the Northern Hills Disablilty training Center in South Dakota which was located near the plant that produced our pouch. Northern Hills provides the support and services to people with developmental disabilities. It takes a lot of dexterity to assemble the pouch with its tiny clip and then put everything together. After testing a numer of different assembly methods and even inventing jigs to assist the workshop team, they were able to assemble and package 20,000 units. It took a little longer to finish the project but the smiles and sense of accomplishment they get from completing a job is well worth the wait.

That's the story how Barb put her Treat Keep® together and she has been selling them all over the world. Japan, Finland, England and most recently she shipped a case to Russia. She has sold thousands on the internet with rave reviews.

Barb and her new product were even featured in the local newspaper. They wrote a terrific article about her adventure launching a new product and how the team at Northern Hills helped assemble and package for her.

She also received terrific reviews from industry magazines. Retail pet professionals are always very interested in new training tools.

Last Year she also had her product featured in Taylor Gifts catalog.