During the month of October leading Yorkshire-based pet accessory company Collared Creatures will be donating 25% of the value of the sales from any of their pink Harris Tweed collars to the Breast Cancer Now wear it pink campaign.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a worldwide annual campaign taking place in October, involving thousands of organisations, to highlight the importance of breast awareness, education and research.

During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Breast Cancer Now, (the merger of the two charities, Breast Cancer Care and Breast Cancer Now) aim to get as many people as possible involved in raising awareness and funds to help support their life-saving research and life-changing support. The fundraising activities come to culmination with wear it pink day on 18 October.

Around 55,000 woman and 370 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK and around a further 7,000 people are diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) each year. Funds to the Breast Cancer Now charity help to fund pioneering research helping to save countless lives and also help to provide care and support to those people who are affected by a positive diagnosis.

Collared Creatures has been creating exquisitely designed handmade dog collars for over 6 years. They have spent many years sourcing the finest fabrics and fastenings to ensure that all their handmade dog collars are comfortable, durable and pleasing on the eye.

All of the handmade dog collars use 100% wool fabric that is hand-woven on the Isle of Harris in the outer Hebrides. The dog collars are available with an alumax clip, buckle or martingale style. All collars are lined inside with Kona Cotton fabric and have a strong webbing core inner for strength and durability and are fitted with a welded stainless steel D ring.  

The last three years have seen Harris Tweed remain "on-trend" and a regular feature in both High Street stores and on catwalks in couture collections and the increase in popularity has led to the training of a new generation of weavers to meet production demands.   

Harris Tweed is used by many well-known clothing and footwear brands and is used to make hand bags, purses and other fashion items. New markets are emerging within the BRIC nations and more traditional markets are reviving in the USA and Europe as well as East Asian countries including South Korea. Sales forecasts are optimistic for the cloth.

The Collared Creatures Harris Tweed dog collars are therefore the perfect pet accessory to complement the currents trends in fashion and should be an attractive option for pet and gift retailers to stock. They are available in an attractive range of colours and designs to fit any size of dog. Collars can be gently machine washed.

Julie Greaves, founder of Collared Creatures, said: “We are delighted to be supporting the wear it pink campaign. Breast Cancer touches the lives of so many people in the UK and it is important to raise awareness of checking yourself and the importance of early diagnosis. Breast Cancer Now carries out such good work in terms of research, care and support for patients.”

For further information on Collared Creatures visit: www.collaredcreatures.com