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I'm Claire. This Is What 12 Years of Transporting Pets Taught Me.

Pets 2 Places Pet Transport Products exists for one reason. To make travelling with your pet genuinely safe, with evidence behind every decision.

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Claire Harris, founder of Pets 2 Places Pet Transport Products

The Story

For 12 years I've been transporting pets for a living. Over 10,000 of them, of every breed, size and coat, all over the UK.

I built the world's first pet taxi franchise. I mention that not to sell taxis, but because it's where the expertise comes from. Every single day, with every kind of pet.

The lightbulb moment came while I was sat outside the vets.  A car pulled up, the driver got out, and on her lap was a chihuahua. She'd driven there like that. It wasn't carelessness.  She simply didn't know.

And then there were the harnesses. Fitting them every day, I watched how slow, fiddly, and poorly designed most of them were. I knew what needed to change: a harness engineered for safety, fit, and comfort for the pet, while being genuinely easy for the owner to fit. That's what I set out to build.

A chihuahua, like the one in the lightbulb moment outside the vets
A small chihuahua standing alert next to its owner

What This Is Really About

This isn't really about selling a product. It's about shifting how people think about travelling with their pets, the way attitudes to seatbelts shifted a generation ago.

Buy it, or don't. But at least change how you think about it. That's the whole point.

I'm an everyday person, working-class, the same in every room I walk into. I'd like this business to feel like that too: kind, caring, honest, and without pretence.

The Team Behind It

On paper, the business is essentially just me. In practice, the product is a collective effort, and that matters because it means this isn't just me saying it.

  • Inond, designing the product alongside me with my input on every detail
  • The Cranfield Impact Centre, carrying out the crash testing
  • The National Transport Design Centre at Coventry University, consulting on the design
  • Rescue centres partnering with us, so donated products can help other pets.
Claire Harris collecting a Women Leaders Award for Pets 2 Places

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