Speaker 1: Perhaps why I do that. Okay, all right, I'm just
Speaker 1: probably gonna do this at some point because I took
Speaker 1: one of your bags too. All right, are we good?
Speaker 1: Make sure you on vibrate mine's of my bad Okay, good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're all good. Okay, ready, ready, Welcome to Maria's Mutts
Speaker 1: and Stuff with me. I have Adrian and Kim from Nylabone. Yay, Welcome, Welcome,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Maria's Mutts and Stuff. And it's very special
Speaker 1: today only because and on top of because they're in
Speaker 1: the studio with me. So that's usually I just I
Speaker 1: do phoneers or a zoom. So welcome, say hi, Hi.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Hi, thank you. Okay.
Speaker 1: So, first of all, before we really get started started, Adrian,
Speaker 1: tell me what you do at Nylo Bone.
Speaker 3: So I am the senior marketing director of Nyla Boone.
Speaker 3: I've been with the company almost fifteen years now, so
Speaker 3: me on team are over the brand marketing for both
Speaker 3: our Nilebone.
Speaker 1: Toys and treats. Wow okay, and Kim.
Speaker 2: I am senior vice president of Marketing for Central Garden
Speaker 2: and Pet, which owns nilobone. So I'm over all of
Speaker 2: our brands at Central for our dog and cat business,
Speaker 2: which is for Pause Cadet and of course my favorite
Speaker 2: don't tell anyone else Nylophone.
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, and we also have Jane in the studio.
Speaker 1: Tell us what Jane does.
Speaker 2: Jane is amazing. Jane heads up our Nilobone Cares initiatives,
Speaker 2: which is really all of our philanthropic activities, all of
Speaker 2: our donations. She also works on all of our sustainability.
Speaker 2: So Jane is the soul of Nylo Bone and what
Speaker 2: we do.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's very sweet. Well, Jane's alone in the corner.
Speaker 1: We put her in the corner put because we're in
Speaker 1: a small studio. But we will get to more about
Speaker 1: the situation, not the situation, of what Jane does and
Speaker 1: what Nilobone is doing. Celebrating seventy years so this is
Speaker 1: really a big thing because Nylo Bone has been around
Speaker 1: obviously for seventy years from nineteen fifty five. And I
Speaker 1: just have to say I've been a Nylobone fans. I
Speaker 1: first like my first dog, which was in the early nineties,
Speaker 1: so that's probably like thirty five years. And to prove it,
Speaker 1: because you're celebrating seventy years, I found and since we're
Speaker 1: doing video. I'm gonna show and I can tell the
Speaker 1: listeners I found this dura chew of Nyla bone right
Speaker 1: and you can tell from the packaging it's like older packaging,
Speaker 1: and I was looking for and I'm so happy I
Speaker 1: remembered that I had this on top of my fridge.
Speaker 1: And those who were listening know that I haven't had
Speaker 1: a dog for a year, so they know I still
Speaker 1: have my dog stuff and I haven't gotten a new
Speaker 1: one yet. But okay, so I was looking for a
Speaker 1: year and I didn't see it. And on the top
Speaker 1: it said the leader in responsible PetCare for over fifty years.
Speaker 1: So this is this is like twenty five years old
Speaker 1: right now. I'm sorry, twenty years old, which is amazing.
Speaker 1: But it's a great product. I, like I said, for
Speaker 1: my first dog. When friends of mine get puppies, I
Speaker 1: always give them a Nyla bhone because I just remember
Speaker 1: and all my dogs, I've always loved Nyla bone. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that because you're a sponsor, because it's
Speaker 1: really from the heart. So tell me how how did
Speaker 1: nylobone start seventy years ago?
Speaker 2: Seventy yeah, seventy long years ago. So Nyla Bone was
Speaker 2: actually one of the founding brands in the pet industry
Speaker 2: in the United States. So around seventy years ago, a
Speaker 2: bunch of companies came together and they created what's called
Speaker 2: the American Pet Products Association, and basically they started the
Speaker 2: industry to say, we want to make products for pets. Now,
Speaker 2: we're one of many, many companies in the APPA. It's
Speaker 2: actually APPMA now, but we were one of the founding companies.
Speaker 2: And we started with durable chew toys, high quality durable
Speaker 2: chew toys and just made here in New Jersey, New
Speaker 2: York right now, but made in New Jersey right in
Speaker 2: the USA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very important.
Speaker 2: Yes, So we made Nyla bones for dogs, durable chews
Speaker 2: that lasted a long time, in every flavor, shape, color
Speaker 2: you can possibly imagine. We took it seriously. We wanted
Speaker 2: to create a product that really entices dogs to chew,
Speaker 2: that gets that chewing need out of them so they
Speaker 2: don't become destruct of course, of course, and from there,
Speaker 2: you know what goes with toys, but treats. So we
Speaker 2: entered the treat market and we've got some of the
Speaker 2: best selling what we call long lasting choose in the market. Why,
Speaker 2: Because we know how to make a long lasting chew,
Speaker 2: right and really popular with dogs, highly highly palatable. And
Speaker 2: now we're one of the bigest chew companies in the country.
Speaker 2: So it's been seventy years of true happiness, right.
Speaker 1: Oh, I do love that, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: And we're just delighted that we keep getting to work
Speaker 2: with dogs and shelters and folks like you.
Speaker 1: Of course, no, of course, I mean honestly, when something
Speaker 1: when a product is good, it's like I remember this
Speaker 1: from my grandmother. You know, if you have something that's
Speaker 1: it's better to have a few things that are good
Speaker 1: quality than stuff that's not made so well, you know,
Speaker 1: and that goes with you know, your pet toys and
Speaker 1: pet chews and pet food just as well, you know,
Speaker 1: in the fact that you're made in New Jersey and
Speaker 1: the fact that you know USA, and I just know,
Speaker 1: like from many many years ago, when like I guess
Speaker 1: it was, I don't even remember how long ago it was,
Speaker 1: but a lot of pets were dying because of the
Speaker 1: food from China.
Speaker 2: Melanine, the melanie issue from China. Yeah, I was in
Speaker 2: the industry at that time. It was terrible.
Speaker 1: It was awful. It was all terrifying, and you know,
Speaker 1: and you didn't I get. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people sometimes don't realize when oh I'm gonna it's okay
Speaker 1: because it's a dog toy. Well look where it's made
Speaker 1: exactly know your dog is chewing it. So and I
Speaker 1: think there was like glue and all this other stuff
Speaker 1: in it. It was just you know. So the fact
Speaker 1: that you're made in the USA is like yay.
Speaker 2: Especially for treats right the past are incredibly important. Absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we take pride in that.
Speaker 1: Yes, no, which I think every pet owner because they
Speaker 1: are our children. It's very very important. Absolutely so now
Speaker 1: that it's seventy years, lots of stuff happening because it's
Speaker 1: a milestone. So what tell us what's going on?
Speaker 2: Well, Adrian, I think that you should talk about the
Speaker 2: wonderful things we're doing.
Speaker 3: I can celebrate our seventieth birthday, which is on November fourth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. We are partnering with Best Friends Animal
Speaker 3: Society in our shoes for a good campaign. So we're
Speaker 3: really excited about this campaign. For every Nylo bone toy
Speaker 3: or treat that's purchased, consumers have an opportunity to upload
Speaker 3: their receipt to our micro site at nilebonecars dot com
Speaker 3: and they're entered into a chance to win a weekly
Speaker 3: gift card and.
Speaker 1: Also a grand prize.
Speaker 3: But what's even more exciting about the whole campaign is
Speaker 3: that for every receipt that's uploaded and purchased that's made,
Speaker 3: we're donating AHw toy to best Friends Animal Society for
Speaker 3: shelter dogs. And they have over five thousand no kill
Speaker 3: shelters across the United States. So they were here today,
Speaker 3: they were here today were beautiful puppies.
Speaker 1: I know, I know it's very tempting, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing changes anyone's mood, right, like like a puppy at work. No,
Speaker 1: but it's it's excellent and best Friends has been around
Speaker 1: many many years as well, so it's a great partnership.
Speaker 1: And I mean, and even if you go because if
Speaker 1: you go to nylobone dot com and right there it
Speaker 1: says by give win, it's like it it's right there.
Speaker 1: So it's very easy. And I know my listeners buy
Speaker 1: Nyla bones and this is even more reason that they should.
Speaker 1: And it's just very easy because they can enter and
Speaker 1: it's win win all around, and you know, you're helping
Speaker 1: out shelter dogs because, as we say over and over
Speaker 1: and over, you know, animals that wind up in shelters
Speaker 1: aren't damaged. Yes, no, there's so many people are other
Speaker 1: than the but people are learning. I think it's taking
Speaker 1: it's still taking time. But you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: a broken record. But I mean I still talk to
Speaker 1: people about puppy mills and they don't know what a
Speaker 1: puppy mill is. Yeah, and it's like, well it's twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, Okay, it's okay, let me, let.
Speaker 2: Me teach you, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's the same thing like and this is you know,
Speaker 1: Nylamone is a huge organization. It's a huge company. And
Speaker 1: the fact that you're saying, you know, shelter pets, sheltered
Speaker 1: dogs and cats, they are okay, they just happen to
Speaker 1: find themselves there.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and they're in need of a loving home.
Speaker 1: That's all they need.
Speaker 2: I have I have cats and I have dogs, but
Speaker 2: my cats came from the shelter, and there's not two
Speaker 2: more loving cats in the world. Like they're they're not damaged.
Speaker 2: They just need a good home. And once they have it,
Speaker 2: the joy you see in them is just incredibly satisfied.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, of course. So with the prizes that
Speaker 1: the person when they buy their nyhlabone product and then
Speaker 1: they upload their receipt and you know, maybe they can win.
Speaker 1: Can we talk about some of the things that they
Speaker 1: could win over there?
Speaker 3: So depending on where they make their purchase, whether it's
Speaker 3: at a retailer online, when they upload their receipt there
Speaker 3: entered into a chance to win one hundred dollars gift card. Wow,
Speaker 3: that would be where they purchased the Nihli one product.
Speaker 1: So oh that's nice.
Speaker 2: And that's one hundred weeks, so one hundred dollar winner
Speaker 2: every week of the contest through the entire contest. So yeah,
Speaker 2: if you win that week and you uploaded your receipt
Speaker 2: from Amazon or Target or Walmart, you get a hundred
Speaker 2: dollars gift card.
Speaker 1: That's a lot and then you can use that to
Speaker 1: spoil your pet right exactly exactly? And how and is
Speaker 1: this going on throughout the year until you hit the
Speaker 1: actual date November or till the end of twenty.
Speaker 3: Five runs through the end of the calendar years.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a long time, a long time and the
Speaker 2: most exciting part of the contest is definitely towards the end.
Speaker 2: So at the end of the year there will be
Speaker 2: one grand prize winner and the grand prize is thirty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. Wow. So you could spoil your pet, you
Speaker 2: could spoil some shelter pets, you could spoil everybody.
Speaker 1: Wow, spoil yourself.
Speaker 2: If you want.
Speaker 1: It's amazing thirty thousand bucks for a grand prize because
Speaker 1: you bought a Nylo bone.
Speaker 2: Exactly right, and you helped a shelter dog.
Speaker 1: And you helped a shelter dog. So there's really no excuse.
Speaker 2: What's better than that?
Speaker 1: Nothing is better than that. Nothing is better. So okay,
Speaker 1: so let's talk a little bit more in detail about
Speaker 1: the products that Nylo bon because I know we hit
Speaker 1: on it just a little briefly before, so that we
Speaker 1: definitely have the Nylo bone choose. But let's talk about
Speaker 1: the toys. So I actually and I have to and
Speaker 1: for those who are listening, sorry you're not seeing this,
Speaker 1: but you'll just have to go look for it in
Speaker 1: the store. But for the video, I just happened to
Speaker 1: grab this bag. I wish I could play with this.
Speaker 1: How cute is this? It's broccoli. It's like a stalk
Speaker 1: of broccoli. And it's really funny because I made this
Speaker 1: dish last night with broccoli, and I'm like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: it looks like when I was chopping up exactly it.
Speaker 1: This is great And I'm you know, power chew because
Speaker 1: we all bacon and cheese flavor. I just I love it.
Speaker 1: I love all the you know, all the different toys,
Speaker 1: and so tell us more of the different kinds of
Speaker 1: toys that you have that are similar to this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So broccoli chew toy is one of our newer designs,
Speaker 3: and all of our chew toys are designed with how
Speaker 3: dogs chew in mind. So this line is definitely a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. There's a lobster in the line. There's
Speaker 3: a doughnut, there's a s'more. Oh I saw the s'mores too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there are a lot of fun. But they really are
Speaker 3: designed not only to be fun and colorful and definitely
Speaker 3: instagram worthy, because it doesn't like to take the pictures
Speaker 3: of their dogs chewing on these yes, of course looking toys,
Speaker 3: but they are designed with purpose so sure that we
Speaker 3: take into consideration how the dog holds the chew toy
Speaker 3: that they can really kind of chew with their back
Speaker 3: teeth and really get in there. And they're designed for
Speaker 3: powerful tours like that one like.
Speaker 1: This one, yeah, extreme chewing style.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's of textured on end, so that really kind
Speaker 3: of engages them and draws them in and gets them chewing.
Speaker 1: It's true. It's amazing because I'm not sure if we've
Speaker 1: all had dogs that were extreme chewers, but I definitely
Speaker 1: had one. And every time, you know, when he was younger,
Speaker 1: when he was a puppy. It's a couple of dogs ago.
Speaker 1: I would come home and like actually hold my breath
Speaker 1: before I opened the door because like, what did he
Speaker 1: you know? And I gave him exercise and left him with,
Speaker 1: you know, treats inside one of those things that you
Speaker 1: play with and he has to like fight for the
Speaker 1: treats and like what would I find whether it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, whether it was my rug. The best was
Speaker 1: one time I came and was potting soil and I
Speaker 1: didn't realize and I picked He must have moved it,
Speaker 1: I thought, and I picked it up in the two
Speaker 1: or three holes, and the potting soil just all like
Speaker 1: kind of seeped out, and I was like extreme chewer.
Speaker 1: And he also chewed on nil of boats too. So
Speaker 1: I have one of those extreme chewers at home myself. Yes,
Speaker 1: and she is definitely a nylepone dog. Yes, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: but they're dogs.
Speaker 2: You know, it goes critic your dog. She is, but
Speaker 2: not all dogs are aggressive chewers. So to build off
Speaker 2: what Adriam was saying is we have our power chewes.
Speaker 2: We have strong chees which are not quite as hard
Speaker 2: as a power chew because some dogs aren't as aggressive
Speaker 2: as as Molly, our test dog. And then we also
Speaker 2: have flexi chews that are great that are more soothing
Speaker 2: where you know, they very easy to chew, easy on
Speaker 2: the teeth. So if you have an older dog or
Speaker 2: just a dog that likes to kind of nibble a
Speaker 2: little bit but is an aggressive chewer. So we really
Speaker 2: have something for every dog, every weight of dog, every
Speaker 2: size of dog. We've tried to meet all the needs
Speaker 2: of dogs across. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, and it's true. I mean dogs are like people.
Speaker 1: Cats are like people, right, they are there. Everybody's different,
Speaker 1: it's there, Each breed is different, each one is different,
Speaker 1: you know, So it makes sense.
Speaker 2: And of course we have a full puppy line.
Speaker 1: Yes, let's talk about Yes, absolutely, Yes, let's talk about
Speaker 1: a little bit about the puppy line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a very wide assortment of chew toys.
Speaker 3: They are designed and specifically made for puppies. So really
Speaker 3: it's important to get puppies chewing unappropriate in the beginning,
Speaker 3: that's true, talking about the destructive chewing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got those little.
Speaker 3: Puppy teeth, and they go through the whole teething period
Speaker 3: just like babies, where they lose their puppy teeth, and
Speaker 3: they're kind of trying to look for ways to soothe
Speaker 3: and ease all of that teething pain. So they're looking
Speaker 3: for things to chew on. But we want them not
Speaker 3: chewing on our remote controls and our furniture. No, of course,
Speaker 3: my puppy definitely tried doing so, redirecting them to the
Speaker 3: appropriate things to chew on. So that's really what's behind
Speaker 3: our whole puppy line, and we've got everything from extra
Speaker 3: small to extra large for all sized puppies and really
Speaker 3: to get them chewing appropriately from the very early stages.
Speaker 1: Sure, I mean, and I think I feel like nylabone
Speaker 1: is definitely preventing many animals from being dropped off at
Speaker 1: shelters because I think sometimes I mean not everybody, and
Speaker 1: it's just it just the way it is, Like if
Speaker 1: you don't know anything about having a dog, or you
Speaker 1: never had one, and you get a dog and you
Speaker 1: don't realize it's it needs your attention. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: be you know, like Lassie or whatever dog you see
Speaker 1: you saw on TV growing up, And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: if it gets destructive or it has accidents and then
Speaker 1: it winds up back in the shelter because it why
Speaker 1: did that happen? Well, it chewed my wall. Okay, but
Speaker 1: that happens, you know, it happens, and I feel like
Speaker 1: Nylophone helps avoid that from happening.
Speaker 3: That's destructive. Chewing is definitely one of the leading causes
Speaker 3: why dogs are returned to shelters. So getting them to
Speaker 3: chew appropriately and exact things is really important, exactly, So,
Speaker 3: so Nylo Bone to the rescue.
Speaker 2: That's right, our reason being.
Speaker 1: So okay, So you so now we're getting into May,
Speaker 1: and well it's May, and we have the rest of
Speaker 1: the year, you know, until your celebration is done. What's
Speaker 1: on what's in store for like the next few months
Speaker 1: for you for the rest of the year. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's a big plan and other things going on.
Speaker 2: So there's a there's a ton of things going on there. Yes,
Speaker 2: we've been quite busy at I think so. Yes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So the the promotion Choose for Good goes through the
Speaker 2: rest of the years we talked about, but to celebrate
Speaker 2: our seventieth birthday, we decided we needed a makeover. So
Speaker 2: we also refreshed our packaging for all Nylophone products. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you'll start to see that hit the shelf within
Speaker 2: the next few months. And we came up with our
Speaker 2: new tagline, which is Trusted Choose with Heart and Purpose
Speaker 2: since nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: It really is who we are. And you know, as
Speaker 2: we went into our seventieth birthday, we thought about what
Speaker 2: do we want to do. Do we want to throw
Speaker 2: a big party for ourselves? Do we want to you know,
Speaker 2: do a big ad campaign. Of course, we always want
Speaker 2: to do an ad can he said, you don't want
Speaker 2: to give back? That's what we want to do this year.
Speaker 2: So you know, we're partnering with a lot of shelters.
Speaker 2: We do donations across a lot of different shelters where
Speaker 2: we give product for our Nylophone treats into shelter packs
Speaker 2: that go home with adopted dogs.
Speaker 1: Nice yeah, so as ducks.
Speaker 2: And it actually has a nylobhone toy coupon as.
Speaker 1: Well, so perfect.
Speaker 2: We can't give away the toys because you know, size
Speaker 2: and shape right at our time, but we're sending them
Speaker 2: home with great information on how to bring this puppy
Speaker 2: or how to bring this adopted dog into your home,
Speaker 2: and we're giving that donation. The other thing with our makeover,
Speaker 2: going back to our packaging, is not only did we
Speaker 2: make ourselves look better at least we think we did,
Speaker 2: we remove plastic from our packaging. So we're saving about
Speaker 2: forty tons of plastic a year. Yeah. Yeah. With our
Speaker 2: new packaging, we're part of the Pet Sustainability Coalition. We're
Speaker 2: accredited as a sustainable company, so we're really focused on,
Speaker 2: you know, reducing our footprint or our pawprint as well,
Speaker 2: right to say, and just doing better for the world.
Speaker 2: So we've had that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've that's amazing too. I mean it's proof because
Speaker 1: my mind from twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: It's old packaging, yeah, you know, but pretty still standing
Speaker 2: and it's i know it's not amazing.
Speaker 1: I know it's amazing, but let's talk. Let's I want
Speaker 1: to show some of the let's talk about what's in here. Sure,
Speaker 1: you know in your bag of trick, we have a
Speaker 1: bag of tricks, so well, I have a couple here,
Speaker 1: so oh, and I've given these as gifts. So this
Speaker 1: is a natural nubs which you can see and you
Speaker 1: b z edible dog chews with real chicken. We have
Speaker 1: these here so and these I guess come in different
Speaker 1: flavors as well, so for those so for those who
Speaker 1: are listening, and of course I took a bag that
Speaker 1: just a couple of days. That's okay because I'm still
Speaker 1: stuck on the broccoli.
Speaker 2: You know. I'm so glad you have the broccoli.
Speaker 1: Me too. It's so cute, but so okay. So that's
Speaker 1: what's happening for the rest of the year. And you
Speaker 1: probably cannot think of what's going to happen next year
Speaker 1: because it's too soon.
Speaker 2: A little bit it's a little bit more exciting things.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure next year, you know. Of course, our
Speaker 2: philanthropic activity will continue. We actually are partnering with Walmart
Speaker 2: and Best Friends Animal Society in May for Pet Months
Speaker 2: So Pet Month at Walmart is this May, and we're
Speaker 2: doing about seven different events across the country, so it's
Speaker 2: on site adoptions out Walmart's across the country and we'll
Speaker 2: be participating in that as well. So we're really focused
Speaker 2: on getting continuing our give back to these pets, and
Speaker 2: we really just want to get dogs out of shelters.
Speaker 1: And of course, I mean we want them to be.
Speaker 2: Nil bhone dogs for life of course, yes, of course,
Speaker 2: but also we want them in good forever homes of course.
Speaker 1: I mean. And that's what's so cool about nilobone because it's, yes,
Speaker 1: it's a company that's a business, but it's really kind
Speaker 1: of directed by what's in all of your hearts. And
Speaker 1: it's obvious to me, you know, at the heart, we're
Speaker 1: pet people exactly. Just yes, it's like people who are
Speaker 1: vets because they love pets absolutely, and that's what I
Speaker 1: feel like. Nylabone is a company that loves pets, and
Speaker 1: you know, and for me as a consumer, you really
Speaker 1: want to spend your money where it's appreciated and where
Speaker 1: you know the company that you're giving your money to
Speaker 1: has the pets best interests. And I've always even before
Speaker 1: knowing you. I've always felt that way about Nylobone, So no,
Speaker 1: it's really true. It's definitely true. So let's see.
Speaker 2: Uh, well, just jumping on vets for a moment. Veterinarians,
Speaker 2: you know, they're so important to our industry and of
Speaker 2: course to our pet families. One of the things we
Speaker 2: do at Nylobone is a veterinary outreach where we're communicating
Speaker 2: and educating veterinarians about our products, about the role they play,
Speaker 2: adopted dogs or new dogs in the home, and our
Speaker 2: favorite things. So Adrian and I and Jane all we
Speaker 2: go to these vet conferences every year, and our favorite
Speaker 2: thing is these veterinarians will come down the aisle and
Speaker 2: they'll be like, Nihla bone and they start screaming. I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, what did we do? And they're just
Speaker 2: like and every single veterinarian is like, I use this
Speaker 2: for my dog. And of course ps they all have
Speaker 2: seven dogs.
Speaker 1: Yes, of course it's too many dogs.
Speaker 2: Get give dogs. They're like, no, seven, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: but they're just so excited. They're like, my dog, I
Speaker 2: can give them a Nyla bone and they calm down
Speaker 2: and their behaviors better than they're happy. That is one
Speaker 2: of the most fulfilling things for us to see that
Speaker 2: core that these veterinarians who ps work so hard and
Speaker 2: are are underpaid, in my humble opinion, just see the
Speaker 2: value of what we do. It's just so satisfying. We
Speaker 2: actually went as a team to a local shelter near
Speaker 2: our office in Neptune City and we kind of donated
Speaker 2: our time for the day and they've got some trainers
Speaker 2: on site that, you know, again help the dogs get
Speaker 2: ready to be adopted, and they this one trainer comes
Speaker 2: over to it and she was like this ball of
Speaker 2: energy and like she made me look lazy. I was like, girl,
Speaker 2: you go okay. She's like, I sent every dog home
Speaker 2: with a Nilo bone and we're like, okay, okay, and
Speaker 2: she's like, nothing helps a dog get adopted better than
Speaker 2: having a nylophone before that family comes in because it
Speaker 2: calms them down. Of course, they're their best version of themselves.
Speaker 2: And she's like, and then I send them home with
Speaker 2: one because I know that's going to help that dog.
Speaker 1: So she gets it.
Speaker 2: She gets it, and we were that's what really inspired us.
Speaker 2: That was like two years ago and we were like, Wow,
Speaker 2: this is powerful. This is important.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, for sure, for sure, and it's true, you know,
Speaker 1: starting with vets, and I mean it's just I feel
Speaker 1: like you all of you know, obviously it's seventy years
Speaker 1: but you know sometimes people are seventy years old and
Speaker 1: they still don't have any common sense. So the fact
Speaker 1: that you guys know what you're doing, you know the direction,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's just win win, you know, and
Speaker 1: so like, thank you for doing what you do.
Speaker 2: No, because it's very important.
Speaker 1: You know, we would love to get all the shelters
Speaker 1: cleared out, and you're on the path to helping that happen.
Speaker 2: I really feel that way. Yeah, well, thank you, and
Speaker 2: it is it's incredibly important to all of us, you know,
Speaker 2: just watching people today here at iHeartMedia and watching them
Speaker 2: see these puppies and like the smile that comes across
Speaker 2: our face and like you can just watch the stress
Speaker 2: just melt away. Yes, that's what it's about. It's true.
Speaker 2: It's not only well we can give these these dogs
Speaker 2: and cats if you will, but it's what they give
Speaker 2: back to us.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, No, it's true. I just you know, I just
Speaker 1: thought of something and it went right out of my head.
Speaker 1: Oh you said seeing people's faces, and they say, when
Speaker 1: you have a pet, it helps your blood pressure, it
Speaker 1: helps your anxiety absolutely. You know when you get anxious
Speaker 1: about something, just like pet your cat, pet your dog,
Speaker 1: and you can physically feel everything in your body change.
Speaker 1: So it's really true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. They I almost feel like they give
Speaker 2: us more than we give them sometimes.
Speaker 1: Oh, I definitely, I definitely think so. So for the
Speaker 1: adoption events around the country, can listeners go to your
Speaker 1: website and see where they're going to be at some
Speaker 1: point when they happen.
Speaker 2: Point, Yeah, okay, we'll probably be posting about it on
Speaker 2: social media also, so on nylophone on our Instagram. But yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll get some information out there. So cool.
Speaker 1: And let's talk about your social media because I know
Speaker 1: that's really big, the whole part of it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: So it's hashtag nylo bone. Is that correct?
Speaker 2: I believe?
Speaker 1: So that's okay, you can say out loud, well, well,
Speaker 1: ny the Bone.
Speaker 2: Cares is our website, but for nylobone, it's just nilphone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, hashtag and people can find and they can
Speaker 1: find you.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, choose for good, choose for the hashtag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we have a great community on our social media.
Speaker 2: So we're on you know, we're on TikTok, we're on Instagram,
Speaker 2: we're on Facebook and again there and you'll see when
Speaker 2: you come visit us. We really just share just fun
Speaker 2: images of all of the dogs that engage with our products.
Speaker 2: We get things from again, we get pictures from shelters,
Speaker 2: we get them from pet parents, like it's just so
Speaker 2: exciting to see them engaging with our product in a
Speaker 2: way that makes them so happy. So we try to
Speaker 2: share as much as we can about that. Of course,
Speaker 2: we share about new products coming out and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but of course we could do both and that's okay,
Speaker 1: and you know you should show your new products too.
Speaker 1: You should be proud.
Speaker 2: We're very proud. You work very hard for those them.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, it doesn't happen overnight.
Speaker 2: Absolutely well. In fact, and Adrian, maybe you could speak
Speaker 2: about this. One of the other things we're doing for
Speaker 2: our birthday is we launch some nylobone birthday bones.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh, yes, let's talk about birthday bone. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We've got five new chew toys that we were launching
Speaker 3: to celebrate our birthday. So there's an orange and white
Speaker 3: swirled bone in three different sizes with roasted chicken flavor
Speaker 3: and the Nylobone iconic orange white color, so we're really
Speaker 3: excited about that. And then we have an orange doughnut,
Speaker 3: which is also part of that novelty line we were
Speaker 3: talking about earlier, and then also a rubber chew toy
Speaker 3: as well. So it's really kind of a nice little assortment,
Speaker 3: limited edition to celebrate our seventieth birthday, and it really
Speaker 3: covers all sized dogs and even different shoe strength.
Speaker 1: Well those are perfect too because if you have a
Speaker 1: dog and it's birthday is coming, there's the birthday present
Speaker 1: because we have to buy presents for our pets, so
Speaker 1: it's perfect. So it's yeah, birthday presence. You got us
Speaker 1: through that birthday party too, absolutely absolutely, well, I think
Speaker 1: it's wonderful. Well, I just thank you for being here,
Speaker 1: Thanks for talking about everything and doing so much for
Speaker 1: dogs and cats and the animals and shelters. And I
Speaker 1: feel like so many more will get homes because of
Speaker 1: Nylo Bone and all the hard work that you do,
Speaker 1: so I really do appreciate you. So Jane and Kim
Speaker 1: and Adrian and JP behind the camera, thank you and
Speaker 1: I hope to talk to you again.
Speaker 2: We hope so too. Thank you so much, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: Was that okay? Do we get everything at Hope dot com?
Speaker 1: I did say that, right, you did? Yes, that was great.
Speaker 1: It was good.
Speaker 2: Can we come back next week? Of course.
Speaker 1: I told you we were comfortable. I know, no, I
Speaker 1: love it and you were fine.
Speaker 2: Arvis, you were us