Archive for the ‘New Products’ Category

Environmental Enrichment programs have been implemented in zoos throughout the world. Among the methods used to create stimulating environments are food puzzles. These food puzzles encourage animals to investigate and interact with their surroundings. Animals forage for food in ways that come naturally in the wild. This keeps them actively engaged in their zoo-based environments!

Dog Games Puzzle Toys from Kyjen provide a similar enrichment activity for your own pets. As descendants of wolves, most dogs instinctively enjoy the challenge of hunting and seeking out the hidden food in our puzzle toys.

Check out our three different puzzles to choose from. Get yours today on Kyjen.com!

Stay tuned to this blog to see upcoming videos of our dog toy testers!

This week I’ve been working on some molds for new toys. I brought some play-doh to Kyjen so see if I could mold some prototypes myself. My fellow colleagues were so excited to see play-doh in the office, I offered them some to play with. Later in the day, Nicole and Lauren introduced me to my new desk mates: Herman and Wilbur!

Thanks gals!

This just in! Thanks to Matt, I now have a third friend! Meet Oscar!

One of our hot-selling Real Animal Squeaker Mats has escaped from the warehouse and Sally Squirrel has gone missing! Cody and Matt, who recently returned from Space Camp, don’t know about the escape… But they are sure to find out.

The remaining Real Animal Squeaker Mats have been contained and are available. Click here to get yours today!

*No real squirrels were harmed in the making of toy or video.*

Our new faux fur Real Animal Squeaker Mats combine the fun and durability of our original Squeaker Mats with the enticing natural colors and textures of real animal fur! Each creature has 12 squeakers plus a grunter in the tail and a nylon belly for texture and durability. Cute faces and embroidered eyes eliminate the ‘scary’ factor of being too realistic.

As natural born hunters with senses honed for the pursuit and retrieval of prey, dogs take delight in survival activities. Toys that mimic the natural colors and textures of animal fur like our Real Animal Squeaker Mats tap into the instinctual drives that help keep dogs healthy and engaged!

Our new Real Animal Squeaker Mats are now available and shipping!

Want to see them, want more? Watch this short video:

Long Body Squeaker Mats

If your dog hasn’t yet tried a Long Body Squeaker Mat, it is about time he did!  The secret behind the durability of the Long Body Squeaker Mat is strength in numbers — the number of squeakers that is. Sixteen squeakers in two rows of 8 line the back of these cute characters.  If your dog kills one squeaker he still has 15 to go!

Long-lasting squeaks isn’t the only reason dogs love these toys. They love to carry and shake the long, floppy bodies in their mouths. This long, flappable shape taps right into a dog’s natural instinct as a hunter.

For reader’s of this blog (for the next 3 days) we’ll take off 1% for each squeaker in a Long Body Squeaker Mats — 16% off. Use LONGBODY16 to get 16% off our original series Long Body Squeaker Mats (Gator, Cow, Mallard, Wiener Dog) in our store.

Our popular line of Squeaker Mats are cute and make us smile, but we’re Always Innovating here at Kyjen so we’ve decided to throw some funny guys into the mix to make you laugh!  These cute characters have eight squeakers and a rattle inside. Like the entire Squeaker Mats family, these “funnies” are bound to last longer than single-squeaker toys from other companies costing about the same!  Get more details and see them here in this short video:

“What’s a Bottle Buddy?” A regular visitor to Kyjen.com might know the answer, but the casual shopper in Fort Collins, Colorado might not.  And that’s just what Arfy’s Mercantile for Dogs and Cats is counting on.  Hoping to pique the interest of shoppers walking by with that simple question, they placed it in on sign board out front (see larger photo here).  Nice job Arfy’s!

If you’ve seen any other creative ways retailers are redirect foot traffic inside, let us know and we’ll pass it on.

If you don’t live in Fort Collins and you want to know what a Bottle Buddy is, please check it in our store.

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Prepare to be shocked (and possibly appalled):  in America, 2 million plastic beverage bottles are thrown out every 5 minutes. Fortunately increased ecological awareness in recent years has encouraged people to get involved with recycling, which cuts down on the environmental toll of both producing new plastic bottles from scratch and storing old, discarded bottles in overflowing landfills.

But it gets you to thinking: all that trouble to produce a new plastic bottle, and all that trouble to recycle it, and you only actually use the bottle for the amount of time it takes to consume whatever refreshing beverage it contains – and then you toss it. Why not get a little more use out of that bottle before sending it on its way?

Well, now you can extend the life of that plastic bottle before sending it to Recycling Heaven with new Bottle Buddies from Kyjen. Simply remove the bottle cap and rinse out the inside of the bottle, then insert the bottle into 1 of 4 cute & cuddly Bottle Buddies characters (being sure to dry the inside of the bottle first to prevent mildew). And there you have it: your dog’s new favorite toy! Dogs love the feel of the soft plush material on the outside, and the crinkly sound of the plastic bottle on the inside gives it an extra kick. When the bottle loses its crinkle, simply replace it with another bottle.

Why not make every bottle count – and have some fun while we’re at it!

See our video of this product here.