Dog toy

We, we absolutely do.

And I think the, I think on paper, like when I, if I go to a party and people like, what do you do? And I'm like, I make dog toys and it's like the cute, fun, quirky, you know, like who's that guy.

And, um, and the reality of like designing dog products or dog toys, even at a place as fun as Bark is like you, you know, it is a mix of dog psychology and physiology and safety and engineering and.

character design and illustration and graphic design and um it you you have to like put all of that together and with i think for me one of the most fascinating parts is studying dog behavior and and why we do have play styles like tug and fetch and thrash and um you know a lot of times uh i mean a plush dog toy is basically a surrogate for a dead animal like you know we we did a duck we called becky breaknecky because when a dog thrashes a toy it's like it's trying to break the neck the squeaker is meant to be the death cry of like a chipmunk you know um

i don't think that a lot of pet parents realize that but that's 100 what's happening

It's been fun.

We're having so much fun, especially with the pet toys.

I'm like, I love it.

And my dogs are enjoying it.

It's been so fun.

So we're finding out everything we can do and each book is going to be different.

Like each item in our box, we're not just doing pet toys.

We're looking into doing bowls.

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Dunkin' has teamed up with dog brand Bark again for its 2026 collection of Dunkin'-inspired dog toys, and they're basically tiny versions of what you would get for your Dunkin' order.

So we're talking oversized iced latte.

They've got a chocolate frosted donut, a wake-up wrap.

That was like the only option you had, [laughs] you know what I mean?

Okay.

Like, now the fact that they have, like, dog toys-

I mean, Dunkin's killing the game-