Sleepypod, a Pasadena-based company known for reinventing pet products through innovative design, recently unveiled Clickit Range car safety harness for dogs. Clickit Range is designed to protect dogs with a distinctive sighthound shape when riding in a car. Sighthounds have long legs, a deep chest, and a wiry body.
“Like humans, dogs come in all shapes and sizes, so car harnesses designed for the average dog shape do not address the unique sighthound shape,” says Michael Leung, Sleepypod lead product designer and co-founder.
“The sighthound characteristics of a deep chest and skinny waist make it challenging to restrain these dogs whose center of gravity is different from the common dog shape,” Leung continues. “Building on Sleepypod’s multiple award-winning car safety harness designs, Clickit Range addresses the challenge of protecting dogs with the aerodynamic body and build of sighthounds.”
Sleepypod crash-tested Clickit Range at the U.S. child safety seat standard FMVSS 213. Using DASH 1.0, Sleepypod’s proprietary sighthound-shaped crash test dog, Clickit Range kept the dog simulant on the seat for the duration of the test while minimizing lift and rotation. DASH 1.0 is the first of Sleepypod’s eleven crash test dummy pets to represent the sighthound dog shape.
Clickit Range was independently tested by the Center for Pet Safety, earning a 5 Star certification rating for dogs weighing up to 110 pounds.
