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  Snow Match For Sub-Woofers in Palmrya PA
8 February 2010


While we bask in New Zealand’s best summer stretch for years, topping the 30s (Celsius, which for the old world is into the 90s Farenheit) our four legged friends in the PA area are putting their Sub-Woofers to the test in the greatest snowfall there on record.   

These images of the beautiful Henry family Retrievers have been sent to us from the snowy state of PA. Ryser is handsome at the best of times, but against this picture postcard backdrop he’s even more gorgeous.   

In the great weather irony where DC is recording 2 inches of snow an hour they’re trucking snow into Vancouver for the start of the Winter Olympics. Hopefully the rescue dogs we outfit from the USA who are on duty at the Olympics will get some wear out of their Sub-Woofers like these dogs are getting. Of course, Little D, our own version of ‘Flat Stanley’ will also be at the Olympics wearing his Ice-Barker and trying to get into the Games action.   

Check out these images from Andy and Sally of Plamrya, Pennsylvania. Their lovely dogs are Ryser (the young fella) and Tryp (the elder statesman). 

Little-D
11 January 2010


Can a dog with buttons for eyes and no opposable thumbs Twitter and Tweet his way around the world through the actions of members of the outdoor community? Will this one little stuffed dog be able to traverse the great continents under the power of human connections? Can little D top his travels of 2009 to Antarctica with a traverse of the great American continent? Will he make it to every state? Can he get on TV? Will he be whispered to by Cesar Milan?

In the spirit of the ‘Small World’ experiments of the 1960s and the slightly less scientific but still endearing Paddington Bear, we’re sending one little vinyl and stuffing dog on a very big adventure. Our point? To prove in the brave new world of Twitter and Facebook and with a bit of good old-fashioned ‘I know a guy who’ know-how, that as long as you have good friends and a great jacket, you don’t need thumbs, a brain, eyes or even a heartbeat to make your way home.

At OR Winter 2010 we will be launching little D on his adventure, passing him on to the first of his contacts in the USA. From there, he is on his own. His mission, to grow and use a network of human friends who can take him to as many events, states and adventures as possible before his return to the OR Summer Market in August.

His new bipedal friends will be asked to:
  • Care for Little-D and take him with them to visit places of interest and events
  • Use their opposable thumbs on their fancy-phones to post pictures and updates of Little D on his adventure
  •  Pass him on each 2 - 3 days to someone who they trust to take him to his next place of interest
  • Not to subject him to postage or couriers, or to use him as a mule for smuggling bad things (bad things can happen to good dogs)
  • To follow him and use their network to keep track of him
  • To return him to D-fa Dogs Booth at OR Summer Market 2010.
Of course, we’d not put him out in the cold world without the best dog jacket of all time on his back. Little D will be wearing D-fa’s Ice Barker 100% Merino Jacket, the ultimate in all-condition wear for his journey. We’ll be mapping his progress on a virtual passport through Twitter and Facebook where curious human-folk will be able to follow his progress through these updates.


Little D on Holiday
10th January 2010

Little D on HolidayDue to quarantine regulations and other unfair prejudices against citizens with 4 legs that mean we can't always take a real D-fa dog into places of interest, we have employed a D-fa Stunt Double named Little D. He's pretty much the perfect travel companion - quiet, will go anywhere, never complains, doesn't make a mes, is a people magnet and fits neatly into a suitcase. It's a glamorous life for Little D, with Antarctica one minute, Mt Aspiring the next. Most recently, Little D has been on holiday with us at Glendhu Bay near Lake Wanaka and he's been enjoying a little wakeboarding, doggy biscuiting (of course wearing his D-FD) and some new year celebrations where he led the camp rendition of Auld Lang Syne at midnight before being showered with kisses by a former Miss Timaru. Little D's next trip is to Salt Lake City in late January where he will be modeling for us at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market. He'll be trading his D-FD for his Puff-Doggy as the temperature there today is about -12.

Interestingly also here is that they've introduced some new regulations about wearing life jackets in boats, with everyone in the boat now having to wear a life jacket on boats under 6m long. Seems like a good idea to me. Funnily enough though this doesn't apply to the dogs in the boats and just yesterday we saw a fox terrier get bounced out of a jetboat while crossing a rather rough ski lane. The dog was retrieved from the water quickly by his owner without incident, but we have since given this jet boating terrier a D-FD just in case he goes flying again. Please take care with your dogs on the water this summer.

Hope the new year is wagging your way.

 

Antarctic D-fa
19th December 2009

There's really nowhere that the D-fa pack won't go to test their products. Dave (product developer and pictured here in full Antarctica gear and in budgie smugglers) has just returned from Antarctica and he took Little Black D along to test the Puff Doggy and the D-FD at the end of the earth.

Pleased to report that no D-fa-Dogs, penguins, seals or sensibilities were harmed in the pursuit of product testing of these products, although there was one American woman who was worried that Dave was not wearing any pants in this photograph.

The D-FD is now on sale in New Zealand and around the world and the Puff Doggy will follow early in 2010.

Merry Xmas.












Welcome to D-fa 2.0
3rd December 2009

Welcome to our new website which we are calling D-fa 2.0.  You'll find loads of information, fun things to read and see, new products, and hopefully a cleaner crisper website experience.

Enjoy!!