When it’s time to go flying, Michelle McGuire has a reluctant husband but a willing and happy black Lab. Cockpit noise is even worse for dogs’ ears than for ours, and McGuire felt she had to do something to protect her pooch’s hearing. After searching in vain for a solution and failing to come up with a homemade design, she enlisted some professional engineering help to create hearing protection her dog actually wears. Now she sells Mutt Muffs in a range of sizes to fit everything from a chihuahua to a bull mastiff.
“My dog never complained, but I could see he was unhappy,” said McGuire. “The dogs figure out pretty quickly that things are a whole lot better if they don’t take the muffs off,” she explained in a podcast interview with AVweb. The Muffs are $52 with a money-back guarantee if your dog won’t keep them on. Find out more at MuttMuffs.com.
