Whaaa? My wife, pups, and I made it to the FRONT PAGE of the local newspaper!

We knew they would write an article but had no idea it would be featured on the front page. This is pretty damn cool because I immigrated here from the US a few years ago. It’s been a relatively tough transition at times. It’s hard to start a company in a country with four national languages, none of them English.

But my wife and I persisted, inspired by my adventures with old Thunder dog. Thunder passed away this summer after 16 years, 32 countries together, most of the US states, multiple trans-continental motorcycle journeys, breaking horses, riding mustangs into the sunset, falling in and out of love here and there. He was always by my side… everywhere. I didn’t know how to be without my dog. My whole adult life was shaped by a sense of identity as "the guy with that dog" or something like that. Fuck, it was horrible. And I didn’t want another dog anytime soon.

But we met a family nearby who had found these two tiny puppies living under a cactus in Calabria, Italy. We took them in to "foster." Suffice it to say it was a foster fail. And now they found their forever home with us. Maybe Thunder had a hand to play in all of that, who knows. The article is about the first company I founded when I moved to Switzerland: DOGPAK Outdoor Gear for Dogs. We aired on the show Die Höhle Der Löwen in September. But to be honest, it’s been a struggle. So recently I founded VetDex too, an app to consolidate our animals’ health and diet records into one place. It’s brand new.

I’m grateful for this. I love Switzerland. I bi nöd hier gbore abr miis hertz ghört da he. So maybe this is a sign of better things to come. Or maybe not. But either way, I think it’s kinda cool.