Community Outreach for Disabled Pets

 

The Best Cart for your Best Friend

As caregivers of disabled dogs for the past 25 years, Eddie and Leslie Grinnell knew what they wanted for their pets: a wheelchair designed for on and off-road play that would allow their pets to enjoy a good quality of life. A mechanical engineer by trade, Ed’s revolutionary design has been endorsed by veterinarians, rehab practitioners and canine chiropractors.

Some of the benefits of an Eddie's Wheels wheelchair:

  • Custom-built dog wheelchair, tailored and engineered to match your pet’s disability and body shape.
  • Welded, padded saddle gives your pet solid support on its pelvic floor, eliminating chafing to delicate soft tissue in the groin.
  • Lightweight solid aluminum construction with wheels to match your pet’s terrain.
  • Not a kit - shipped fully assembled, except for mounting the wheels on larger wheelchairs.
  • Adjustable for height and length.
  • Our exclusive Variable Axle carts allow owners to change the balance of the cart to compensate for increasing weakness in the front legs for dogs with degenerative myelopathy, arthritis or age-related weakness.
  • Easy to use, indestructible, and warranted for the life of your pet.
  • Hand Made in the USA in our own workshop in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, and exported all over the world!

Founder, Eddie Grinnell, built his first dog cart for Buddha, his companion Doberman in 1989. A mechanical engineer by trade, he brings his lifetime experience as mechanical designer, welder and inventor to the task of designing a mobility cart that supports pets in a bio-mechanically sound way. Ed’s previous incarnations included 10 years traveling the world designing and installing machinery for the corrugated box industry; he’s worked as a hydraulics engineer, an electrician, welder, designed packaging for Nestle, built custom motorcycles, raced for Harley Davidson, was a self-employed contractor and stonemason, arborist and dog trainer. Ed was raised on a New England dairy farm; he has always lived with dogs and cats, as well as an occasional raccoon and skunk. He also designed and built pottery kilns when his wife, Leslie, was a studio potter. Recently, Ed became the certified animal control officer for Buckland, one of the 2 small villages that comprise Shelburne Falls. In this capacity, he enforces local animal control laws, provides boarding for lost dogs and cats, and is on call for animal control emergencies. 

"Windsor Hills will take a % of each sale from our Wheelin Winston's pet line to provide a set of wheels for as many fur babies as we can!"

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