Hi,

I need to speak for myself and Kathleen, who created such a nice product on this one.  When we started our journey 4 years ago, we never thought that Aikiou (IQ) would become an international company and would sell in less than 2 years in over 20 countries and now more than 30.  We were just designing something to keep our dogs and yours occupied.  From the beginning, products and ourselves have evolved to what we are today thanks to you and all the ones that supported us.  We created this company with the single idea that if we could help people have more interaction with their pets and if they would have more fun in their life, living as an animal and not a person, then we could improve their life and prevent their bad behavior, thus reducing abandoned cats and dogs.

We never thought that we could solve all the problems in this market but at least we will try to make it better.  So instead of paying for big publicity, we decided that we would help shelters and that we would build our friends network on Facebook by helping others and I still think that this is a responsible idea.  When I took this decision, someone asked me to be as transparent as could be and that’s why I decided to list the shelters that we have chosen.

Also, keep in mind that you are always welcome to help those shelters as many of them accept donations and you will find the links below.  With that, I would like to take the time to say thank you to all those people that are out there trying to make things better.  You all deserve to be remembered and thanked.

Sincerely yours,

Alexandre Tremblay, President

Sent on thursday the 29th 2011