Plume 'n Tails

Specialty Items

Doggy Wardrobed
Doggy Armoire
Kitty Kozy
Kitty Litter Cabinet

Including organic catnip toys:

MouieWowie
Ratitude

As seen in

SharedVision

If the cathouse is looking less than sustainable (or perhaps your bed is looking a little too furry), think about upgrading to a Kitty Kozy by B.C.-based company Plume ’n Tails.—Jennifer Croll, “Cat Power” (EnVision: Living Better with Style, in Shared Vision).

Emily Youngreen

About Us

Emily Youngreen

Emily Youngreen is Plume 'n Tails owner–business partner, manager and accounts representative. Previously she was resource coordinator for the National Network of Women in Trades for nine years. She is a registered diversity trainer and facilitator, and has organized and coordinated an International Indigenous Youth Camp, reporting to the Canadian International Development Agency (C.I.D.A.), in 1996. From 1999 to 2007 she has managed and supervised Home Support Field Services for the North Kootenay Lake Community Services and Hummingbird Home Help. She began her career as a veterinary technologist in Los Altos, California. Together with her husband and business partner, Gustav, she owned and operated the Circle R Spur Guest Ranch in Lucerne, California. She is a published author, a children's book illustrator and an artist who has exhibited her work at local galleries in the Kootenay region. She is also a contributing member of the Cat Writers’ Association.

“Dr. Gry” cartoon by Gustav Youngreen

Gustav Youngreen

Gustav Youngreen is Plume 'n Tails owner–business partner, furniture designer and craftsman. He's an experienced small farm husbandman and woodlot operator. Formerly has was owner-developer-operator (along with his wife, Emily) of Circle R Spur Guest Ranch, a 400-acre, 24-horse guest ranch in Lucerne, California. He has also worked as an experienced cabinetmaker in Connecticut.

Better known for his illustrations in Fritz Perls’ gestalt psychology classic In and Out of the Garbage Pail, and Richard Bandler's NLP primer, Using Your Brain for a Change, he is a locally exhibited cartoonist-illustrator and artist.

“Rutgar” sumi drawing by Emily Youngreen

Rutgar and Cuja Lulla Belle

Along with two grown-up children, Emily and Gustav are proud of the latest additions to their family.

We had decided we wanted a small, quiet, mellow, low maintenance dog. Someone completely different from the dogs we'd had before. Small and different we got, in fact, very different. Half Jack Russell and half Dachshund, high maintenance, high energy, head too big, back too long, legs too short with front feet too large that stick out at right angles from his body. Rescued by friends who heard we were looking for a little dog, they brought him to us. The moment we saw the funny looking pup trotting down the path to our door, we knew he had come to stay.

“Cuja” sumi drawing by Emily Youngreen

Mr. Rutgar is now two years old and we sometimes wonder, who rescued whom? He has become such a part of our lives that we can't imagine a day without him. He and our old kitty, Cuja Lula Belle have become fast friends and together they have become the motivation for our new business venture, Plume 'n Tails.