Real Dogs. Real Feedback. Real Innovation.

Brad’s work with animals began on his family farm, with horses and dogs, and has extended to birds, including kookaburras and emus. His dog-training experience includes e-collar work, high-drive dogs and rehabilitation work with aggressive dogs. He completed the New Skete training seminar, has helped train dogs on the monastery property and exchanged training ideas with Brother Christopher Savage and Marc Goldberg.

His contribution to Relay began with the design, not just an evaluation of a finished prototype. Brad shared materials and examples of existing contact-system designs with Christian. Studying one of those examples sparked a breakthrough in Christian’s thinking about Relay’s contact design. Brad also contributed to the receiver-mounting plate work and brought a trainer’s perspective to contact placement, fit and support.

That collaboration continued through hands-on testing with Kobe. Brad identified details that needed work, and Christian refined the side-assembly support and contact hardware. Brad’s early messages describe a substantial improvement after a revision to the contact housings; his later assessment, relayed by Christian, is that the current form is more consistent than where it started.

Brad has also expressed interest in collaborating on videos and training content for Relay. Alongside his design input, those conversations bring his training experience into the planning for how future customers could learn to use the harness.

Brad personally endorses Relay. His endorsement reflects his own experience and involvement. It is not an endorsement by New Skete or the people associated with it.

His contribution: Design input, materials support, mounting-plate development and practical testing that helped move Relay forward.

Mo and her husband, Lee, run Mo Mountain Mutts, the Alaska dog-training and walking business known for its puppy-bus videos. Her work brings the perspective of someone handling dogs outdoors, in groups and through changing conditions, not just in a controlled demonstration.

With Ekko, her Karelian Bear Dog, the tail-facing receiver light was a standout. Mo reported that Ekko’s neck fur dulled the light in a collar-mounted setup; the harness placement gave her a view of the light away from that neck fur. Her nighttime snow footage captures the detail she was enthusiastic about.

She also brought specific feedback about receiver access, contact-hardware retention and strap adjustment. Christian had already encountered installation difficulties; Mo reinforced why repeated attachment and removal mattered to customers. In a later version she tested, she described attaching the receiver as easy and called it her favorite part.

Mo’s contribution extends beyond the equipment. Through Mo Mountain Mutts, she connects with a large social-media audience and has encouraged Dawg-Tec to share more of its work through regular content. She also proposed downloadable training videos, offered to help create them and suggested a way for customers to follow up with training questions. Her interest brings professional handling experience to the conversation about Relay’s future customer education.

Mo’s testing with Ekko highlighted questions about teaching a familiar vibration cue in a new location, alongside fit and hardware adjustments. Responses were not consistently reliable in that setup. She remains interested in continuing, but has not yet evaluated the latest changes.

Her contribution: Outdoor-use feedback, practical access and adjustment observations, and a proposed role in helping customers learn to use Relay.

Eddie Maldonado has been Christian's barber for 20 years and supported the Relay idea long before this page existed. Testing with Santino, his French bulldog, gave him a hands-on role in its development.

When his first harness was damaged, Eddie temporarily returned to a conventional collar-mounted setup. He found that he preferred Relay for Santino and wanted another, offering to pay for it. Christian provided the replacement at no cost because Eddie's honest feedback mattered.

That feedback helped highlight a practical frustration: charging through the early design's tight bottom opening. Eddie reports that the updated H-cut access makes charging much easier. He is pleased with how Relay functions and likes its tactical appearance for Santino.

Early setup difficulties also prompted replacement support from Dawg‑Tec. Eddie's story is about more than liking a product. It is about continued use, useful feedback and support along the way.

His contribution: Everyday-use feedback that helped us focus on easier charging and a practical ownership experience.