Bred for a Job I Do Not Have: Working Dog Owner Tee

A working line dog is built for a task. Herding, guarding, finding, carrying, hours of it, every day, for generations. Then it lives in a three bedroom house with a yard and a sofa, and the household has no sheep. So the owner invents the job: a ball, a scent game, a walk that is really an assignment.

A stranger reads none of that. They read a person talking about their own education and their own career, they decide it is a wry line about the job market, and they are sympathetic about entirely the wrong species.

Filed as a placement record with HOUSEHOLD, THREE BEDROOM stamped underneath, which is the honest summary of where the dog ended up.

It is one of the few lines here an adult kid can buy for a parent without needing the dog explained first.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.