March 28, 2014 · Annie Grossman
Goodbye to our Third Avenue dog training studio
We lost our studio in a fire three months ago. This is what a charred dog training business looks like.
Our Indiegogo campaign is going gangbusters. Thanks for everyone who has reached out!
If you don’t know about your campaign, here’s the deal in a nutshell: We lost our dog training studio (and my apartment) in a big fire three months ago. We’re now looking to move the biz to a new (bigger! better!) location, and are crowdsourcing funding to help us get us there.
The night of the fire.
You dig?
If you’re following the campaign because you love puppies, then please head over to Gizmodo to check out our new Spring Gift Guide. (Our dog training business supports our blogging habit.) Or go ahead and donate a $1, and you can get our $1 perk: A cute picture of a puppy emailed to your inbox. There are a lot of puppies on the Internet. Let us curate for you!
Not into cute dogs? Then you must be following this campaign because you love stories of things destroyed by fire! Well, then, read on.
On Wednesday I went back to our old studio to sort the salvageable debris from the charred holy-crap-I-have-no-idea-what-that-object-used-to-be debris.
As you probably have never seen what a dog training studio looks like at 1000 degrees, I thought I’d share some pics.
We often recommend people give their dogs bully sticks. (Guess what they’re made out of!). Normally they look like cigars. One of ours came out of the fire looking like… a dilapidated kitchen cabinet handle?
My sister’s pet portraits.
Dog training storage. Yikes!
But look what survived! A drawing my bestie made for me. It had been on the door. Survived a firefighter boot.
Also, an illustration my dad did in the 90s for the cover of The New York Times book review.
Here are two of of our Assess-A-Hands. We still have two… But one is really creepy.
Melted pushpins, burned student pics.
