An Aero-Canine Hearing Protection System That Your Pooch Will
Love
Mutt Muffs... a silly idea at first glance, seems not so silly
if you have any affection for the canine side of the world. Since
ANN became the home to a new German Shepherd puppy a few months ago
(named 'Anjin'), the care and feeding of a dog, especially one who
has grown up on an airport and keeps trying to sneak into our
airplane, has taken on new urgency... But now, hearing protection
for our favorite pup has been found in the form of the
aforementioned 'Mutt Muffs'.
It sounds crazy at first, but bear with us... this is a cool
product.
The folks who dreamed up this idea claim to have been
'...inspired by pilots who know the noise level of the cockpit is
unsafe for man or beast.... Mutt Muffs offer hearing
protection for your four-legged family members. Your dog's keenest
sense is smell and number two is hearing. If you think something is
loud, your dog is probably in pain. After heredity, long
exposure to loud noise is the biggest contributor to deafness. Good
news though... noise-induced hearing loss is different in one very
important way... it can be reduced or prevented altogether.'
And for those who will see this program and immediately conclude
that, "My dog would never wear those...", the Mutt Muffs folks tell
ANN that "you’d be surprised."
They explain that, "It doesn’t take long for most dogs to
'compute' cause and effect. Dogs figure out very quickly that the
Mutt Muffs are what is stopping the noise. Ironically, most make
this determination by getting them off in flight. Usually
just once. That's all the doggy evidence required to know life was
happier when they were on. When adjusted properly, Mutt Muffs fit
securely enough that head shaking isn’t enough to get them
off."
And yes... they work well on cats -- but we're not cat fans
(according to Anjin--shown below with Jim Campbell)... so who cares
(grin)?
So; there you have it -- an aero-canine hearing protection
system... who'da thunk it?
Aero-TV Goes To The Dogs And Checks Out 'Mutt
Muffs'
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Time!!!!
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we initiated the first feature programming series for
Aero-TV... we decided to take it slow, but we also tried
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educate, inform, and entertain YOU about all aspects of the
exciting worlds of aviation and aerospace.
And yes, there is MUCH MORE to come... and soon.
If you've been an observer of the media and associated media
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Electronic media and print media are both under the assault of
progress, and the online world has been a cornerstone for
revolutionary change.
Part of this amazing process is the fact that we're been
building and planning a massive new organization within ANN. That
said,
we're hiring talented new people as fast as we can find
them (a far more difficult task than we had
imagined -- REALLY good people are hard to find), and we're
brainstorming at speeds that would make a deorbiting Space Shuttle
feel like a slug. Suffice it to say that we wanted to do this
right, rather than right-now, and that the development of this
program has been the most carefully pursued undertaking we've ever
undertaken.
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story, with most of the slick and useful functionality
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aggressively over the next few weeks). The ability to embed a
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now, to implement in different phases of the initial release
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