I upcycled a rusty old bike and became Blackpool's first mobile dog treat vendor

Blackpool Gazette

A man converted a rusty old bike he found on E-Bay - into a colourful mobile dog-treat business!  Scott Knighton, 30, now rides the 'Woof Truck' through Stanley Park and Blackpool Promenade, selling a variety of healthy yet tasty dog treats - all based on human favourites including bourbons and oreos.   The video shows Scott's fabulous 'Woof Truck' bike as he meets with four-legged customers in Stanley Park - including some dogs from the Homeless Hounds shelter who are looking to be rehomed.   The video is taken from a forthcoming episode of Unconventional Brits - watch all the back episodes here https://www.shotstv.com/playlist/5931/unconventional-brits

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00:00It's Blackpool's first mobile dog friendly treat business, so we sell waffles, doughnuts, popcorn.

00:08I'm a living carer so I just needed something to do in my spare time,

00:13you know, and just for my own mental health, so I found this online but it was completely

00:18rusted, so I done it up and I just thought I'll go and sell normal human ice cream,

00:23but then obviously looking around the area there's loads of people selling human ice cream,

00:27so then I just bought my dog and I thought we went to go and take her to get an ice cream

00:31at the same time and I was like, oh you know what, dog ice cream, what about that?

00:34You know, I was just scrolling through eBay and I just seen this rusty bike on there and I thought,

00:40oh he hasn't got the car on the front, because I didn't fancy that, so I seen it on the back

00:44and I thought, oh I could ride around on that, that would do for a couple of hours a day,

00:47and yeah it's turned into this wolf truck all of a sudden. You wouldn't recognise it,

00:53it was crazy, completely rusted, seized, absolutely rusty. I spent hours on it,

01:00sanding it to be honest. I designed the whole thing, everything, you know, from down to the

01:04parts and you know the artwork, the artwork I designed and this was, the actual frame and bike

01:12was painted, the black lines and the ice cream effect was done by Graffiti Pro from Blackpool,

01:18a local street artist that does all the big murals around Blackpool.

01:22Very Instagrammable, yeah, very Instagrammable. I mean we get stopped all the time just for kids to

01:27come and sit on the bikes, the parents stopping us, you know, can we have a picture with you

01:30on your bike and you know, and then when you've got all the dog treats. A lot of people don't,

01:34when they say dog treats, they think normal, you know, normal meaty little chews until they

01:39see them and they see how colourful they are and the smell of them, they smell amazing.

01:44They're not proper human food, it's what we've tried to base it on, try and get the things that

01:48we eat and have those replicated into dog treats but healthy. That's what it is, my little escape,

01:53I suppose and I didn't think it was going to go as big as it has, I was only supposed to,

01:58you know, it's just a couple of hours a day thing, you know, or a few times a week but

02:03you know, it's ended up just blowing up, completely blowing up, it's crazy and it's

02:07dog treats. It's nice to get out and be doing something again because I've always done that,

02:11I've always had my own business and I've always done stuff, I've always worked and obviously when

02:15you're caring you can't do that so much, do you know what I mean, so you have to spend a lot of

02:19time indoors, I have to be honest with you, doing nothing. You know, the social media,

02:24we've gained a huge following on there so far in the short space of time we've been on there

02:28and literally near enough every hotel, every dog friendly hotel in Blackpool has just been

02:33constantly contacting us to come out and stock them, same as restaurants, we're stocking a few

02:37on the prom and that now as well. We've got online sales, so all social medias plus website, we do

02:43wholesale and trade prices and we also sell in the Stanley Park and Blackpool around the

02:49area on the prom. So we're going to be traveling the UK on the Wolf Truck, you know, going all

02:55dog friendly parks and visiting, we're doing an amazing bakeries, dog bakeries series, so we're

03:00going to go and film a lot of bakeries and stuff and just go and see all the dog businesses and

03:04help promote them and show the UK, you know, what we have to offer here for dogs because it's not

03:09really, you know, known what's available for dogs so.

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