About Us

About DogPound Creations

DogPound Creations began with a loss, an idea, and the desire to create something meaningful.

We’re Jeff and JulieRay Romano, the husband-and-wife team behind DogPound Creations. What started as a small pet-inspired woodcraft shop has grown into a family-run New York workshop creating personalized gifts for pet lovers, families, sports fans, military and service members, and anyone looking for something a little more meaningful than an ordinary store-bought gift.

Our story began after losing our 12-year-old Shepherd. At the time, we couldn’t find anything that felt personal enough to honor her memory, so we made something ourselves — a handcrafted wooden memorial tealight featuring her silhouette, with light shining through the design.

That first piece became the foundation for DogPound Creations.

Pet memorials and pet gifts are still an important part of what we do, but over the years our workshop has grown far beyond where it started. Today we create personalized tealight holders, wall clocks, pet portraits, memorials, ornaments, military and service gifts, sports-inspired pieces, seasonal designs, and other handmade gifts meant to celebrate the people, pets, memories, and moments that matter.

Made One at a Time

DogPound Creations is still a small shop, and we like it that way.

Most of what we make is created to order rather than pulled from a warehouse shelf. When your order comes in, it begins as raw material in our workshop and works its way through the tools and processes needed to become your finished piece.

Depending on the design, that may include laser engraving and cutting, CNC machining, UV printing, hand assembly, staining, finishing, and personalization.

That hands-on approach lets us offer something large mass-production companies often can’t: the ability to make a gift feel like it was created specifically for the person receiving it.

Personal Means Personal

Names, dates, pet breeds, colors, photographs, messages, and other details can turn a good gift into something someone keeps for years.

That is why personalization has always been such a large part of DogPound Creations.

Whether you’re remembering a beloved pet, celebrating a birthday or holiday, honoring someone’s military service, decorating a home, cheering on your hometown, or simply giving someone a gift because they matter to you, our goal is the same:

Make something worth giving — and worth keeping.

Handmade in New York

Every DogPound Creations product is produced in our New York workshop, and whenever possible we purchase our materials and supplies from U.S.-based companies.

We’re proud of the fact that there are real people behind the products you order. There isn’t a giant fulfillment warehouse here. There’s a workshop, a collection of machines, a lot of sawdust, and the two of us making sure each order leaves here the way it should.

Over the years, some of the most rewarding messages we’ve received haven’t been about the product itself. They’ve been about what the product meant to the person who received it.

That’s what keeps us doing this.

Thank you for supporting our small business and allowing something made in our workshop to become part of your home, your memories, or someone else’s story.

Jeff & JulieRay Romano
DogPound Creations