Dakota's Den Labrador Retriever Dog Gifts

Not many know but Dakota has her own online store. It started innocent enough - we loved our baby chocolate Lab and wanted some items to show our love for her and the breed. Well, nothing out there suited us, so I decided to make some designs and put them on some t-shirts, mugs, and mousepads for our family.

Not long after that, people that happened upon our site started to comment on how beautiful they thought she was and asked if we had other items. Hence, Dakota's Den was born! From that point on, we focused on purebreed, rescue, or lab mix Chocolate, Yellow, and Black Labrador Retriever clothing and dog gifts. Original designs and beautiful pictures on quality t-shirts, sweatshirts, cards, bumper stickers, license plate frames and more from our gift shop. Now it has taken off with at least a hundred different designs for all types of Labrador Retrievers and the new designs are created every week. People shop from all over the US and we have even gotten orders from countries like Australia! After the addition of Cheyenne to our family, Dakota Den was renamed 8 Paws Up because between our two Labs, they give the store all 8 paws up!

It is amazing how the love of a dog breed can start a business and how the simple love of an owner for her puppy can shine through art and photography.