August 22, 2008 - West Chicago, Illinois

Dear Mr. Hoytt and Staff,
I can't begin to tell you how grateful we are for your support and instructions as to using the Quick Brace system with our Harlequin Great Dane pup. "Ares" had a late start getting his ears cropped in the first place, 11 weeks old when normally Danes are done 7-8 weeks, so we were getting concerned whether they would stand properly or at all. Received the usual 5 pounds of tape from the vet which lasted 4 days on Ares before he had it off. By then the quick brace system came and applied it as instructed. Well we couldn't be happier, within 4 weeks the ears are PERFECT and didn't require months and months of taping. Our other Dane spent 4 months of massive taping before his ears stood up, but that was before we ever heard about quick brace. Ear stance is a extremely important look on Great Danes, like with Dobe's, it makes the dog look regal and we like that look, or like you said "get a coon hound." Again, thank you for all your support and for the quick ! brace system. Forever in your debt, Joni Herbert and Ares (my beautiful Harlequin Great Dane!)

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Mr. Hoytt,

  I am writing to thank you for sending us the quick brace. Yes I have only received it two days ago but it has made our Dobie, Abigail, my wife and I so much more at ease when working with her ears. We were using the tampon method (that we used 20 years ago on our 1st Dobes) and it was working good, but we were doing almost daily changes as we have been enjoying the best of the Alaska spring weather lately and she was getting pretty dirty everyday as a puppy should. The quick brace has now allowed us to clean her up without a full tape change or the 30 to 40 minutes it was taking to make the change. The 1st thing that was noticeable was the ease of the attachment, the second was the form of the ears in the brace, and last but not least no more worries at how tight the tape was.

  We thoroughly enjoyed your video and when I say we that includes our 5 year old rescued rottie, Beemer. He is also a big fan of Animal Planet. We have done numerous rescues over the last 20 years of both Rotties and Dobes with great success. With my recent retirement from the military, my wife and I deciding to be home employed, we had decided to spend our time raising and training a Dobie puppy. I hope to visit you sometime here in the near future and thank you first hand.

  Thanks again for providing the Quick Brace. You are correct when you said in your video about this being a very humane method. I would really like to get a hold of those vets and breeders that were attaching the headgear and make them wear a comparable item for a month.

Sincerely,

John and Sharon ***ie

Chugiak, Alaska

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