Two childhood friends, one workshop, a lot of prototypes.

We met as kids and never really stopped building things together. Two engineers by trade — the kind who take something apart just to see how it works — and two fans who are every bit as attached to their dogs as they are to their teams. T&T Creations started in 2017, when we got tired of waiting for somebody else to build the thing we wanted.

Look at what gets sold for a dog living in a house. A wire cage, or a beige plastic box. Something you slide behind a door before company comes over, because nobody ever designed it to be seen. Your dog lives in your living room. The thing he sleeps in was drawn like it belongs in a garage.

And if you're a fan, your team is already everywhere else you live — on the wall, on the couch, on your keys, on your whole Sunday. That one corner is the only place it never reached.

Pro Pet is what we drew instead. A kennel shaped like a helmet, wearing your colors, built to sit out in the open in the room where you actually watch the game. Your team, your school, or your dog's name down the side. For people who treat their pets like family and their teams like religion, and never understood why those two things had to live in separate rooms.

We patented the design and we built it. Now we're letting the people who'd actually own one tell us which version to make first.