Dog G8 lends support to Royal Mail/ CWU’s Dog Awareness Week
The Dog-G8 gate was the inspiration of Peter Maxted, the founder of the company who has been a pet sitter for over 20 years and a dog owner for the same amount of time
The Dog G8 Company has lent its support to the Royal Mail/Communication Workers Union’s National Dog Awareness Week by helping to prevent the thousands of dog attacks on postal workers each year.
Horsham- based The Dog G8 Company, the inventors of the concertina dog gate are lending its support to National Dog Awareness Week 1-7 July, a campaign which is conducted each year to raise awareness of the number of dog attacks on postal and delivery workers by the Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union.
For the past few years The Dog G8 Company has been conducting collaborative research with the University of Liverpool and developing products to prevent dog attacks at the front door.
Over the last 12 months, there were more than 2026 dog attacks on postmen and women across the UK. This is an increase of 15% from the previous year. Additionally, 42 postal workers are attacked by dogs every week, and over 1000 postmen and women have had a finger bitten off or severely injured whilst delivering the mail through the letterbox in the last five years. Some of the injuries have prevented people coming back to work and have in some cases, proven fatal.
The Dog-G8 Company has created a range of concertina gates that aid dog owners with training, prevent dogs from escaping, and reduce the potential risk of an attack on postal and delivery workers coming to the house.
The Dog-G8 gate was the inspiration of Peter Maxted, the founder of the company who has been a pet sitter for over 20 years and a dog owner for the same amount of time.
The Dog-G8 product is British made and features a concertina, modular and retractable design. The product can also be used on multiple configurations ranging from the front door to stairways, hallways and many more.
The gates’ modular design enables it to be spanned to any width, allowing the gate to be fitted to the widest of configurations such as patio doors where standard, conventional gates cannot fit.
