Patio Pacific Inc - Pet Doors

Patio Pacific Inc

Patio Pacific Inc was incorporated in 1976 specifically to market a new type of pet door--the 'panel' pet door for sliding glass door. This new product, the 'Instant' Pet Door, was the first of it's kind to offer an adjustable height capability which was desperately needed because sliding glass door tracks are not all the same height. It is a tribute to Lucile, founder of the company, that she had the vision to see a need in the market and the initiative to start a company from scratch to meet that need.
Sadly, the new pet door suffered from poor engineering and was quickly eclipsed by other, better, brands. Patio Pacific continued, however, by selling those as well and moved toward specializing in pet doors only.

I purchased the company in 1984 and in about 1991 introduced the Thermo Panel, the worlds first dual-pane, insulated glass panel pet door. That patio panel was followed not long after by the Quick Panel, a single pane glass product with a 'spring-load' height adjustment making installation a breeze.

Though a major improvement over anything yet on the market, the Thermo Panel installation was more difficult than our customers liked and in 2002 I introduced the Thermo Panel II which incorporated a spring loaded height adjustment similar to but better than the Quick Panel making installation quite simple. Then the Quick Panel was upgraded to the Quick Panel II by incorporating the new, improved height adjustment. These projects benefited greatly from the help of a talented local design and manufacturing engineer, Scott Ganaja, who was able to upgrade us from 'home-made' to the top tier of finely engineered and manufactured products.

In 2002, Scott began looking with me at the flap problem. Simply put, there wasn't a good flap on the market at the time. Either they were rigid, and therefore not safe enough, or they were flexible and safe but leaked badly, didn't insulate and eventually failed requiring the owner to buy another one and start the process over. I felt that there was a market for a really high quality, durable, safe flap that also sealed and insulated. With Scott's invaluable help, the 'Endura' flap was designed and built. It is, without doubt, the best pet door flap ever made and is the basis for a complete line including patio panels, door mounts and wall mounts by summer of 2005.

I'd like to go on about Patio Pacific, talk about our great customer service and so on. But let me, instead, talk about something else that's much more important:

Every day, in our country alone, thousands of dogs and cats are killed for no better reason than that they are 'homeless'. There are far, far more animals born every year than there are homes for. And, with some shining exceptions, the 'shelters' around the country serve mainly to kill the surplus.

Pity those who work in these 'shelters'. Often they are broken-hearted about the work they are required to do and do their best every day to ease the suffering around them. But the general population is, surely, unaware else how could we allow this to continue?

Maybe there are bigger problems in the world today. But this is the battle we at Patio Pacific choose to fight. If everyone did only a few simple things, we could end this atrocity.

Patio Pacific Inc
874 via Esteban # D
San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401-7168

(800) 826-2871

Customer Service: sales@petdoors.com