{"id":83,"date":"2006-04-25T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T18:32:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-12-20T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T20:45:15","slug":"roma_the_product_tester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/roma_the_product_tester\/","title":{"rendered":"Roma the Product Tester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rain or shine, it’s always a good day to work at home. Standard attire consists of pajama bottoms, a tshirt, sneakers, and a KHUM<\/a> hat to hide “morning hair”. It’s really quite a sight. Makes it particularly amusing when I come in from getting the mail and my wife sighs, “You went outside looking like THAT?!” and just shakes her head.<\/p>\n

\"roma\"<\/a>The best thing about working at home is a dog at your side. Makes a great foot warmer, too. Roma, our pup (going on 3 years old…big puppy) was raised to be a Guide Dog<\/a> but was dropped. (She didn’t “fail”, my wife always stresses to everyone.)<\/p>\n

Roma has a soft trachea and can’t wear a choke collar, so she couldn’t complete the Guide Dog training. And we got a cool dog out of the deal.<\/p>\n

She’s found a purpose, though. When she was a “guide dog in training”, she could only have rock-hard plastic nylabones to chew on. She has tough teeth AND she’s a labrador. After she tore through an “indestructable” bone from West Paw Design<\/a>, the folks there quickly replaced it and then asked us if we’d like to use Roma to test some of their new products.\"product_tester\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Two Zogoflex, rubber-disc prototypes later, Roma’s now on their web page with her own profile<\/a>. Could be worse. At least I’m not a cat person.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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