Meet Penn, Wyn, and Ziggy

We're Penn and Wyn, a married couple who somehow ended up building an entire website around whether or not it's too hot to walk our dog. That dog is Ziggy, a two-year-old brindle whippet who runs this house whether we admit it or not.

About Ziggy

Ziggy is a brat, and he knows it. We like to think we've trained him. Really, he's trained us. He loves squirrels with his whole chest, lives for constant butt rubs, and would play all day long if we let him.

When he's tired, commands only land if there's food involved. Whippets have a certain "what's in it for me" vibe, and Ziggy embodies it completely. Even bathroom breaks take longer than they should, because he's far too nosey to worry about something as trivial as actually going potty when there's a whole world to sniff first.

He loves the fireplace in winter and the patio in summer so much that we now keep ice cubes by his head while he bakes next to the fire, just so he doesn't overheat doing the thing he loves most.

His favorite hobby is stealing things. A sock, a tissue, whatever he's not supposed to have. It's never really about the item. His actual life goal is getting chased for it.

Why we built this

We don't have a backyard, which means Ziggy's real walks are his real exercise, not just a quick trip outside to handle business. That makes the "should we walk today" question a lot more important around here than it might be for other dogs.

Where we live, summers get hot fast, and the higher altitude dries a dog out quicker than most people expect, sighthounds especially, with their thin coats and low body fat. In Ziggy's two short years, we've already had a few real scares, mostly from him eating something he shouldn't while we weren't watching closely enough. It made us a lot more careful, and a lot more aware of how fast things can go wrong in the heat too.

So we built the tool we wished we'd always had: something fast and simple that tells us straight up whether today is a walk day, especially for the sighthounds and other dogs like Ziggy who don't have a yard to fall back on.

The guy who started it all