About Us
CoolBurrow started with a senior dog named Biscuit and a summer I'll never forget.
Biscuit was my parents' golden retriever — eleven years old, grey around the muzzle, and the gentlest dog I've ever known. The summer the heat broke records, I watched him stop sleeping. He'd abandon his expensive orthopedic bed every night to lie flat on the kitchen tile. He'd pace at 3am. He'd pant lying down in an air-conditioned house. We were terrified.
Our vet explained what was actually happening. Dogs run hotter than humans. Their fur traps heat. And the plush beds we buy them out of love are insulators — they trap a dog's body heat and radiate it right back into him. The bed we thought was comforting Biscuit was quietly cooking him.
She told us what dogs in shelters and veterinary clinics actually rest on during heat: elevated mesh cots. Not because they're cheap, but because the physics works. Air flows underneath. Heat leaves the body instead of getting trapped. The dog finally cools down.
So I bought one. And within a day, Biscuit was sleeping through the night for the first time all summer.
The problem was that every cot I could find was either flimsy junk that sagged in a week, or industrial kennel equipment with zero thought given to the dog or the home it lived in. Nobody had built one that was genuinely well-engineered, properly supportive, and something you'd actually want in your house.
So I built CoolBurrow.
Every CoolBurrow cot is designed around the veterinary research on canine thermoregulation — the same principles our vet walked us through that summer. We worked with veterinary input on the design. We obsessed over mesh tension, frame durability, and the elevation that makes the cooling actually work. We built the thing I wish I'd had before I watched Biscuit suffer through a summer he shouldn't have had to.
Biscuit got a few more good summers because of that cot. Comfortable ones. The kind every dog deserves.
That's who we built this for. Yours.
— John, Founder of CoolBurrow