Boxing Week Sale

Holy Hank Jones! Back to the Future!

Wow, look at my buddy Hank Jones! He found a way to go back in time and hooked up with the King and the Prez. That's way cool!

Holy Cow! Santa at Timmie's!!!

I told you he's real! I told you!
Santa was at our shop this past saturday! And he was kind enough to take pictures with all of my friends. He's so cool!
Anywho, I told him that I was a good doggie this year and I really wanted liver treats and chicken strips! yum!

And thanks to our mommy's and daddy's generous donations, we were able to raise $400 for the Toronto Humane Society!

On behalf of myself, Tessie and all the folks at Timmie Doggie Outfitters,

Happy Holidays - May all your stockings be filled with Treats and Toys!

Woof, Woof!
Timmie Doggie Outfitters

Lost Doggie, found New Parents...and sibling to play with

Nov. 26, 2006

Hello,
Just wanted to let you know we never did find the owners, but he got along so well with our beagle and seems to do wonders for his separation anxiety (and yes we got too attached) that we've decided to keep him.

Cheers,
Sara (New Mommie)

Who said Kitty Cats don't wear clothes!

Look at Piper,...chillin on Grandma with her nice Hello Kitty Shirt by Little Lily.

Friends of Timmie

Look at all the friends that come by to say hello. They're so cute!!!

Tessie

It's Tessie on her first night away from her siblings.

Timmie Doggie Outfitters

Take a look at all the cute doggies on Breakfast Television.

NOW Magazine - Best of Toronto

Best pet accessory store
TIMMIE DOGGIE OUTFITTERS

867 Queen West, 416-203-6789, www.timmie.ca

Timmie Doggie Outfitters is like Gap Kids for doting pet owners who skipped human reproduction to avoid SUV stroller ownership yet find themselves dressing Fido in matching doggie hoodies and booties. Embrace your raging pet parenthood and spend the week's beer money on Timmie's cutesy-wootsy stock.

Timmie's Mommy made these

Check out the Super Exclusive Hand Knit Scarf this cutiepie has on. Her name is Emily a.k.a. Emily Elizabeth. She's a shit-zu, pomeranian, chihuahua cross. That's Sweet!

What do you think of the Jacket?

it's getting a bit chilly here in the city. Check out the Army Jacket with a Furry Hoodie. It's Hardcore!

Trick or Treat!

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!
We're getting ready for our TV debut this monday on Breakfast Television.
I'm Superman and Tessie's a Cowgirl. We'll be joined by our super pack of friends.

Irish the Boston Terrier - Part Deux

It was no fluke,...
Irish is a Super Model. Go on Boy!

I call this pose, "I don't care"

It's Hot

Little Oliver

Here's a new addition to our doggie family in the beatiful Queen St. W. W. His name is Oliver. He's almost twelve weeks old and adjusting to city life just fine. Oliver is originally from Ancaster, ON. He left Goodheart Kennels for a better future in the city with his new parents. Please welcome Oliver with open hearts!

Mac and his Sac :)

Mac is supporting his new Ruffwear Backpack/Harness. He looks like he's ready for an expedition or a trip to the grocery store. I think Mac looks very handsome.

"…the dog loves the bag." Marc

Irish the Boston Terrier

Irish is a natural Super Model. You don't learn this kind of stuff,...you're born with it. Go on Boy!
Irish is supporting a one of a kind Chi Wow Wow Reclaimed Surf T-shirt. He looks Cool!

Design Lines Toronto Fall 2006

TIMMIE DOGGIE OUTFITTERS

867 QUEEN ST W
416 203 6789
WWW.TIMMIE.CA

Offering contemporary furniture and accessories for posh dogs and glamourpusses, newly opened Timmie is more than just your average pet shop. Owners Paul Ryu and Georges Khayat, graphic designers by trade, bring their discriminating eyes to the world of pets. Look for award-winning minimalist dog dishes by Everyday Studio and Wet Noz, and water bowls by Karim Rashid. New this fall is the Eames-inspired bentwood dog bed from Holden Designs.

MON-SAT 10-8, SUN 12-5

Elvis swims with confidence

Can you believe Elvis didn't like water before? Look how graceful he looks as he's doggie paddling in his new life jacket from Timmie Doggie Outfitters. He looks HOT!

"The life jacket gives Elvis confidance,now he can swim without it. Thanks."
- Francis -

Pumpkin

Say hello to my little friend. It's Pumpkin. She's waiting very patiently to see the Holden Bed. It will be at Timmie Doggie Outfitters, any day now.

Gizmo Flushes

This little kittie is so creative and so cute!

Happy Birthday Chewy

Happy Birthday Chewy! Chewbacca just turned 1 on Aug. 4th.

Globe and Mail : Pets are the new 'design opportunities'

It took Toronto couple Matthew Ceasar and Stephen Pasholzuk eight months to settle on their new daughter, Tokyo. "We searched breeders through Canada, then had to go to the U.S.," Ceasar says. Their bouncing bundle was born with a darling harlequin mask of black and brown on her little creamy white body, and a little dot on her head they cheekily refer to as a third eye.

Tokyo the Chihuahua fits right into their high-design lives. "We're finicky about what we put in our house," says Ceasar, who works at Kiosk, Toronto's modern-furniture hot spot. "What we buy for our dog has to blend in." Tokyo's bed is a charcoal grey ultrasuede, to match their furniture.

"Matthew feng shui's our house to death," says Pasholzuk, who comes home to re-energized arrangements daily. "But the best thing to greet me is Tokyo, lying splayed out on 'her' Persian rug."

Doggie accessories have gone far beyond the Paris Hilton living brooch cliché: Gucci collars and Burberry coats are so yesterday, darling. As owners move past conspicuous logo consumption, so too shall our dogs get duded up in high design style.

"In your loft, you have very little space. Everything has to count," says Paul Ryu, a graphic designer who opened Timmie Doggie Outfitters on Queen Street West in Toronto last month. The boutique caters to people like himself -- young, hip design snobs with butt-sniffing dependents. "Dog accessories have moved from everyday necessities" -- a dog's got to sleep, and he's got to chew -- "to design opportunities. Industrial designers are getting in on the act."

Boutiques such as Zoomies in New York and George in San Francisco lead the way, providing precious objets de dog. Websites like postmodernpets.com are offering stuff such as the Bau Dog House, a moulded plastic orb by Italian superstar Denis Santichiara, and the Magis Dog House ($350), a brightly coloured plastic pod on stilts by furniture designer Michael Young.

Some of the more "intellectual" fashion designers are getting into the game: Todd Oldham is doing doggie beds and pillows, and Isaac Mizrahi is doing pet accessories for the new, design-happy pet aisles of the Target department store chain. There is a Danish collective giving cat houses a new sleek look (Fluffy gets a wood finish on her outside walls and chrome legs; see the http://www.the-pet-project.com).

Canadians are hot on the trend too. Designer Karim Rashid has done the Yum bowl and Dog Bone, a sleek chew toy. Toronto's Concrete Design is drafting prints for the Doggie Day Bed. And the Toronto-designed Haus line (http://www.bowhaus.ca) is a mega-hit. Architect Katrina Herrndorf designed the crate-style metal house that doubles as a coffee table in 2002; the company now makes them in two sizes (they retail at about $425 and $545) and ships them to more than 100 boutiques in North America.

Crate training [which teaches puppies to sleep through the night] is the way to train your pet these days," Herrndorf says.

"The crate needs to be not only functional, but to fit in with the decor in your home. This way, the pet can stay with you, rather than be shut away in the laundry room because his crate is ugly."

The high-design-for-pets movement has its own chroniclers. Vancouver-based Modern Dog magazine has shopping pages filled with paraphernalia such as a Japanese-style dog bowl nestled in a wrought-iron stand or nifty GPS devices that strap on like poochy fanny packs.

"As we saw people demand higher-quality food for their dogs, so too they are now looking for all the elements of good design," says Cameron Woo, publisher of Bark magazine, based in Berkeley, Calif. "It has to look good, yes, but it also has to have high functionality."

After all, he says, the international pet market is on track to ring in $38-billion in sales this year (that's bigger than the children's toy and candy industries combined).

"Industrial designers in the outdoor-gear sector and the baby sector are thinking out of the box and are translating their successes to the pet market," Woo says. "Think about it: They are already playing with innovative materials, looking for durability, flexibility."

Take the doggy jogging stroller. There is a Jeep-branded model -- complete with cellphone pocket and a "parent tray" -- for little dogs, whose legs get pooped on long outings. It's ergonomically designed and suitable for rugged terrain (it is a Jeep, after all).

There's another dog-child parallel, with the vogue for ultraexclusive micro labels. At Toronto's Dogs in the City boutique, Nick Cheng offers Japanese duds for dogs -- school uniforms (how fetishy is that?), hoodies, tennis dresses, Hawaiian shirts and even wedding dresses for owners who have, face it, certifiably lost the plot.

He also carries a line of pet toiletries from France (the cologne can hit $4,000 a bottle, though the Canadian market isn't ready for that, he reckons; his fragrance selections range from $46 to $100). "Dog owners want their precious pets to have something unique. Something the other dogs don't have."

So what style of dog goes with all this high design? A small one. Says Connie Wilson, editor-in-chief and publisher of Modern Dog: "Our living spaces are becoming smaller, and for city life, we see breeds like Chihuahuas, Yorkies [there is one on the magazine's current cover, with its owner, actress Gabrielle Muller] and Maltese growing popular, as well as mini-daschunds.

"And when you add travel to the lifestyle mix" -- the young and the lofty like to jet about -- "small is the way to go. You can take your dog onboard in a little carrier."

Today's new high-design mutts are too posh for walkies, thanks.

Elvis and Leylah

Leylah brought her new bother Elvis in to chill out and play with Timmie and Tess.

Ruby and Kiera

This is Ruby and Kiera, two bestfriends (that don't like each other), hanging out at Timmie, Doggie Outfitters. They left with matching Cinopelca harnesses ... Ruby was sporting the light green one and Kiera the hot pink.

Baby Sophie

Welcome Sophie to the neighborhood. She loves chewing on expensive designer shoes ... now she can chew on a small pink Planet Dog bone from Timmie, Doggie Outfitters.

Bella chillin' on her deck

This is Bella enjoying the sunshine wearing her new "bella bean" collar

Jack and Diesel

Check out Jack and his new buddy. Diesel is only 4 months old. Welcome to the neighbourhood!

Mack "Truck" the Pug

Say hello to my little friend. His name is Mack the Pug. His parents named him after the great Mack Truck Logo.
Mack's parents are involved with Pugapalooza, a very noble field of work in Pug Society. Pugapalooza is a yearly non-profit event to raise money for Pug Rescue in Ontario. We at Timmie Doggie Outfitters are all for it!!! Mung! Mung! (Woof! Woof! in Korean)

Cutie-Pies!

Look at these two Cutie-Pies that visited us last week. They're so adorable!!!
Petunia the pug will be 15 weeks old today.

Welcome Olive

she's so precious! Please welcome the newest edition to Queen St. W. Her name is Olive and she's only 8 weeks old. She barely fit into the smallest collar at the shop. But she'll grow into it just fine.

Meg's 4th Birthday!

Happy Birthday Meg!!! Meg's mommy Nancy bought her a beautiful Bella Bean collar and a pretty Pup Cake for Meg's 4th Birthday. BTW, Timmie thought she looked hot wearing her pink bandana.

Zephyr in her traditional dutch costume

Zephyr is Jayne's doggie. They live in the Netherlands and she is very sad that Holland met such an early end at the World Cup.

Zsa Zsa's 1st Birthday

Zsa Zsa celebrates her 1st birthday in style. Compliments of a pink heart shaped liver cake from Timmie, Doggie Outfitters. She shared her cake with all her friends at Trinity Bellwoods Park.

10 Year Old Draws Timmie Logo