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Monday Pro · 5/18/2026 · Issue #343
Quick Hits

🏰 Forget the dog-walker, the super-rich are hiring full-time canine caregivers

😨 “84% of dogs may be secretly struggling with anxiety, new study finds

🇧🇷 Unicharm bets big on Latin America with Brazilian pet food acquisition

🦞 OpenVet launches world's first veterinary AI skills library for OpenClaw

👨‍🌾 ADM and Hill’s push regenerative farming into the pet food supply chain

💯 Purina Farms turns 100 years old - and St. Louis is celebrating

🤠 Country star Riley Green launches dog brand with Pack Provisions

🐈 Pet parents are spending like crazy - cats are winning big

🏦 Pet Supplies Plus emerges from parent company bankruptcy

INTERVIEW
Dog Accessories Reimagined as a Lifestyle Brand
Lauren Ephrat on design, resilience, and building without outside capital

After spending more than 20 years in the wine and spirits industry, Lauren Ephrat entered the pet space during COVID with a simple observation: most dog accessories felt outdated, overdesigned, or disconnected from how modern consumers actually live. What started as Doodle Couture eventually evolved into DOGISTRY - a design-forward accessories brand built around the idea that products for dogs should feel as thoughtfully designed as the products people buy for themselves.

In this exciting new interview, she discusses surviving a painful rebrand, landing placements in Chewy and Nordstrom, scaling the business roughly 5x over the past year without outside capital, and why today’s pet consumer increasingly shops through a lifestyle lens rather than a traditional pet retail one.

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