April 16, 2021
Thinking spring at Birdsbesafe® headquarters in Vermont today--despite the four inches of new snow overnight! The weather was unseasonably warm for the last several weeks, which was eery, but welcome. The daffodil buds and lilac buds emerged, but today they are covered in snow. The American Robins have left descended to the river valley, where it might be raining rather than snowing. Spring 2021 has begun.
We are busiest protecting birds in the spring and early summer months. This spring, the pandemic is not yet resolved, but we have normal operations for our e-commerce business this year. We are grateful!
We are grateful for the loyalty and dedication of our sewing partners, who have sewn our products ever since 2015. Our products are made in the United States, and they always have been. It is a decision of ours to support American manufacturing, and to support the fair compensation of the sewing professionals whose hands guide our products through the sewing process. We rely on their superb professional sewing capabilities in order to bring you a beautiful collar cover to help protect birds -- and to dress up your cat in an attractive way.
Fabric is the main "ingredient" of our product. Over the years, fabric prices have increased. Today, we raised the price of our product. It was our first price increase since 2013. We needed our prices to better reflect our actual costs. We hope you will understand and appreciate that it was an overdue adjustment.
Thank you, as always, for caring about cats and birds, and thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for making Birdsbesafe® company grow and be successful in working to protect birds around the world.
May 21, 2021
April 28, 2021
Does this make our pet products officially famous?
We made the list of 10 best eco-friendly pet products for Earth Day! We're lucky #7. See the story by People Pets' editor here.
We're on a mission to protect birds from cats that hunt. Thank you, cat owners!
February 12, 2021
Results of a scientific field study, led by Univ. of Exeter's Dr. Robbie MacDonald, were published in the journal Current Biology this week."Fitting Birdsbesafe collar covers reduced the numbers of birds captured and brought home by 42% but had no discernible effect on mammals."
And, the research paper characterized it: "Birdsbesafe is a colorful collar cover that works as a visual warning, increasing the visibility of cats to potential prey animals with color vision. It exhibited pronounced effectiveness in reducing killing of birds, and more generally, prey with good color vision, including herpetofauna."
