About Our Pet Products

It All Starts With Art! Each design starts as an original work of art, created by one of our owners, designer Pat Cockrell. Pat has an eye for the hottest trends and years of experience creating top selling designs for the gift and home accents market. Pat is dedicated to keeping the line of dog collars, leashes, harnesses and couplers fresh and exciting and full of hot sellers!

About Our Company

Yellow Dog Design, Inc., located in Greensboro, North Carolina is a dye sublimation/heat transfer printing company specializing in the design and manufacture of its own unique line of pet collars and leads, as well as Equine fashions, in addition to designing and printing narrow web fabrics for the ASI industry. The company’s 15,000 sq. ft. facility houses both offices and manufacturing.

Yellow Dog Design, Inc. was started as a company in 2001 by Mike Dempsey and Don Dempsey, bringing with them over 18 years combined experience in the dye sublimation and printing businesses. In the beginning the company mainly provided service and products to the Ad Specialty Industry, printing and manufacturing promotional products sold through ASI distributors, as well as being a “middle man” manufacturer and printer for private label brands and licensed goods.

In 2004 Pat Cockrell joined Yellow Dog Design, Inc. as a partner and owner, and brought her business and design experience from her years in the Gift and Home Accent Industry to help the company design and develop its own finished products for retail. The company now proudly offers its own unique product lines targeted at the Gift and Pet Industries.

At Yellow Dog Design we are all passionate about the end-users of our product as evidenced by the 5 awesome canines that come to work with us everyday, 4 Labs, and 1 Dachshund.They are our models and some of the best product testers in the industry, in addition to cunning thieves should you decide to leave your lunch out in the open!