Company Info

Christmascollars.com and Genuine Dog Gear are owned by Sylvan & Sons Inc.

Sylvan & Sons has been in business manufacturing top quality dog  and cat products for over 14 years. The company was founded by Linda Martuch in 1988. The idea for specialty collars took root in a spare room, then expanded to include a garage and dining room and eventually took over a small house in south Tampa. The name sake for Sylvan & Sons was a pure white Labrador Retriever, Onion Creek's Sylvan Song. ‘Silly dog’ was known and loved by many, and was laid to rest under spreading oaks in 1998.

 Now in its own manufacturing facility in Odessa, Florida. Sylvan & Sons has established a strong track record of excellence in  product quality and outstanding service to retailers and consumers alike.

Even though corporate customers have included most of the big names in pet retailing; New England Serum, PetsMart, Petco, and Pets.com, Sylvan & Sons original and primary customers are independent chains and smaller retail businesses. Our designer collars, leashes, bows, and harnesses can be found at many grooming shops, pet specialty retailers, boutiques, pet stores, and web sites nation wide. 

 Sylvan & Sons products first became available online in 1999. Our first web site Sylvans.net was created to satisfy requests from people who were not able to find our products in stores near them. When we introduced our Genuine Dog Gear product line which includes; toys, training aids, leashes etc. geared towards training and competition in agility, flyball and obedience, we created another web site for those products Genuinedoggear.com. Now our third website Christmascollars.com has joined the family.