Cool Key Chains for Pet Lovers

I decided to make some custom key chains for animal lovers. Why not? Besides, I didn’t really carry much in my line for the guys, and men do use key chains. This was one of those bright ideas I had late at night, and was able to get started on the very next day. It seems to have paid off- they’ve just gone through their first Christmas season and seem to be well on their way to invading pockets and purses of pet lovers everywhere!

Now most of them are of specific animals, but I do have one of a paw print and another one that is a simple pewter bone key ring. That, I think, is perfect for a dog lover or breeder. And I should say that quite a few women use them as well. Why not? We all have to keep our keys gathered up in some fashion or other, and a rubber band isn’t all that classy looking and tends to break a lot.

I love pewter; it’s my new favorite medium. Not only is it affordable, but it looks a bit like silver. So thus far, all of these are done in this medium.

One of the novelty key chains I especially like is this helpful rabbit design. Why helpful? I looked at his little bunny face and thought he seemed eager to hold those keys. This one is also a nice shape, roundish and comfortable to hold and grab in your pocket or purse.

Most animal lovers I know (and I know a lot of them) either have dogs or cats as companion animals. My bright idea was to combine the two of them in one design, hence the dog-cat combination key chain.

A large number of my animal loving customers work in this area as professionals, thus the veterinary caduceus keychain and the veterinary technician key ring. It’s true I love making new things for people in the veterinary profession; maybe I get a little carried away on this point because I have more designs specifically for them than for any other group of people. But key chains are useful for this group of no-nonsense pet lovers.

I think key chains are cool. You can have a number of them for different groups of keys, you can have any kind of design, and they can fit in a small space and then be hung on a nail or someplace where you can easily find them.

They make it harder to lose your keys. Can you imagine if keys were like loose change? I have enough trouble misplacing my glasses. I tried to google the history of key chains but got nowhere. Did businessmen in Victorian England have key chains? I bet so, probably just a big round ring to put all those long skinny keys on.

My custom key chains are fun- that was my purpose; to come up with a way for animal lovers to carry their key around and stay in character.