Sleepypod Unveils Clickit Range Car Safety Harness, Addressing the Challenge of Restraining Dogs with Narrow and Deep Chests

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 2, 2025--

Sleepypod ®, a Pasadena-based company known for reinventing pet products through innovative design, today unveils Clickit Range car safety harness for dogs. Clickit Range is designed to protect dogs with a distinctive sighthound shape when riding in a car. Sighthounds have long legs, a deep chest, and a wiry body.

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“Like humans, dogs come in all shapes and sizes, so car harnesses designed for the average dog shape do not address the unique sighthound shape,” says Michael Leung, Sleepypod lead product designer and co-founder.

“The sighthound characteristics of a deep chest and skinny waist make it challenging to restrain these dogs whose center of gravity is different from the common dog shape,” Leung continues. “Building on Sleepypod’s multiple award-winning car safety harness designs, Clickit Range addresses the challenge of protecting dogs with the aerodynamic body and build of sighthounds.”

Sleepypod crash-tested Clickit Range at the U.S. child safety seat standard FMVSS 213. Using DASH 1.0, Sleepypod’s proprietary sighthound-shaped crash test dog, Clickit Range kept the dog simulant on the seat for the duration of the test while minimizing lift and rotation. DASH 1.0 is the first of Sleepypod’s eleven crash test dummy pets to represent the sighthound dog shape. Find more information about Sleepypod’s crash test pets at sleepypod.com/pages/research.

Clickit Range was independently tested by the Center for Pet Safety, earning a 5 Star certification rating for dogs weighing up to 110 pounds. View the Center for Pet Safety certification test at https://www.centerforpetsafety.org/sleepypod-clickit-range/

Availability

Clickit Range will be available for purchase in Spring 2025, starting at sleepypod.com.

Downloadable Images

Download photos of Clickit Range car safety harness at sleepypod.info/RangePhotos.

About Sleepypod

Sleepypod transformed pet product design with the introduction of its multiple award-winning, innovative Sleepypod mobile pet bed in 2006. Visually bold and intuitive, the Sleepypod, made from durable, high-quality materials, set a new standard for pet products to include safety testing. Today, Sleepypod products continue to set the high bar for pet product safety and design. Every product is designed with thoughtful features for efficient living and then tested for safety. From the BPA-free silicone in Sleepypod’s Yummy Travel Bowls to the crash- testing of Sleepypod’s entire carrier and car harness lines at U.S., Canadian, and E.U. child safety seat standards, Sleepypod devotes careful and caring attention to each detail in every product. Sleepypod.com

Clickit Range car safety harness by Sleepypod was independently tested by the Center for Pet Safety, earning a 5 Star certification rating for dogs weighing up to 110 pounds. Clickit Range is designed to protect dogs with a distinctive sighthound shape when riding in a car. (Photo: Sleepypod)

Clickit Range car safety harness on Sleepypod's Crash Test Dog DUKE 1.0. Clickit Range is designed to protect dogs with a distinctive sighthound shape when riding in a car. Sighthounds have long legs, a deep chest, and a wiry body. (Photo: Sleepypod)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who the United States recognized as the winner of last year's presidential election, kicked off a tour of Latin America on Saturday, just days before President Nicolás Maduro is set to be sworn in for a third term in defiance of international pressure.

A crowd of a few hundred Venezuelan migrants broke into shouts of “Edmundo, Presidente” as González emerged from a meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei to wave to supporters from the balcony of the iconic Casa Rosada, or Pink House, in Buenos Aires.

“We are doing whatever the cause of freedom requires,” Milei, an effusive far-right supporter of the Venezuelan opposition, said as he welcomed González to the presidential palace with honors normally reserved for a head of state.

González, a retired diplomat, fled into exile in Spain in September after a judge issued an arrest warrant following the July 28 presidential election, in which Maduro was declared the winner by the National Electoral Council, which is stacked with governing party loyalists.

In recent weeks, he has been vowing to travel to Venezuela to be sworn in for the presidential term, which according to law must begin on Jan. 10. But he hasn't said how he plans to return or wrest power from Maduro, whose party controls all institutions and the military.

On Thursday, Maduro’s government raised the stakes even further, announcing a $100,000 reward for information on González’s whereabouts and plastering the wanted-like bulletin with the retired diplomat's photo on social media and the arrivals board at the country's main airport.

Upon arrival to the Argentine capital, where he twice served as Venezuela’s ambassador more than two decades ago, González posted on social media a short video message expressing solidarity with those imprisoned in Venezuela as part of a crackdown by Maduro.

He said that he would raise with Milei concerns about the well-being of five Maduro opponents who have been sheltering in the Argentine ambassador’s residence in Caracas for nearly 10 months — a diplomatic standoff that has embittered relations between Venezuela and Argentina.

The Biden administration and most European governments have rejected the election's official results, pointing out that authorities didn't provide detailed results as they have in past elections. Meanwhile, copies of tally sheets collected by the opposition from 85% of the nation’s electronic voting machines show that González prevailed by a more than two-to-one margin.

González, 75, was a previously unknown career diplomat when he was thrust into rallying the anti-Maduro coalition as a last-minute stand-in for opposition stalwart María Corina Machado, whom the government banned from running for office.

After speaking with Milei on Saturday, González is scheduled to cross the Rio de la Plata for a meeting with Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou.

A wanted sign of Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez is displayed on the list of departure flights at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, near Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)