Strange Tails
Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in British Columbia
Handmade-to-order Biothane and leather dog collars and leashes, made in an East Vancouver studio and sold direct online.
Vancouver, BC CA · shopstrangetails.com
Strange Tails is a Vancouver, BC maker of handmade-to-order Biothane and leather dog collars and leashes, founded in 2021 by Jake Meadows and Savannah Boyd and now operating as the BC corporation Strange Tails Dog Goods Inc. Every piece is made in the founders' East Vancouver studio and sold only through their own site; the leather line uses English bridle leather and one collar uses Austrian hardware, while the Biothane webbing that makes up most of the catalogue carries no stated origin.
Factors
Ownership
100.0 verifiedCA 100%
BC OrgBook shows 'Strange Tails' registered as a BC sole proprietorship in June 2021 and 'Strange Tails Dog Goods Inc.' incorporated in BC in June 2023, both active; the vendor's own About page names co-founders Jake Meadows and Savannah Boyd with no outside investor, parent, or acquisition mentioned. Corporations Canada's federal search returned no results, consistent with a provincial rather than federal entity.
- BC OrgBook: Strange Tails Dog Goods Inc. (BC1423964) · registry record “STRANGE TAILS DOG GOODS INC.”
- BC OrgBook: Strange Tails (FM0847964) · registry record “STRANGE TAILS”
- Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada · registry record “Search Results”
- About · the vendor's own site “moved out of our apartment into our East Vancouver workshop”
Manufacturing
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The vendor's own About and FAQ pages say every order is handmade to order in the founders' East Vancouver studio and ships from there, and the About page names production manager Zac Meadows as the maker of most pieces sold.
People
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Strange Tails operates from a single Vancouver studio; its founders, its production manager, and its shipping all originate there per the About and FAQ pages, with no other office or facility mentioned anywhere on the site.
Inputs
4.0 inferredEU 30% · other 20% · US 50%
By SKU count, Biothane collars and leashes outnumber the leather line roughly four to one in the product catalogue; Biothane is an industry-standard coated webbing manufactured in the United States, but Strange Tails' own pages never state its origin, so this share is inferred rather than confirmed. The leather line is handmade from Sedgewick English bridle leather and the quick-release Biothane collar uses Austrian-made Cobra buckles, both named on the vendor's own product pages; the plain solid brass and chrome-plated hardware used elsewhere carries no stated origin, so it is treated as unconfirmed rather than assumed Canadian.
- Strange Tails | Handmade Leather Dog Collar | Mahogany · the vendor's own site “Handmade from the finest Sedgewick English Bridle Leather, with burnished and finished edges”
- Adjustable Biothane Quick Release Dog Collar · the vendor's own site “made in Austria from stainless steel, aluminum alloy and brass components”
- Strange Tails product catalog (Shopify products.json) · source