ONTHEROADSERVICE was born from an encounter with friends who live with hounds in Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, which they stopped by on a road trip in the summer of 2018.
Shocked by the fact that behind the organic choices we enjoyed in our urban life were problems that could only be seen in the production area, such as vermin control problems, we wondered if we could make use of deer skins that were discarded at the time, and with the cooperation of various craftsmen, we completed our first product, "Ethical Leather Collar".
I learned a lot from living with animals. Their innocence and depth of heart are astonishing. He has always been there for me, and he has always given me forgiveness, so what am I giving back? Isn't there something more we can do? I have more opportunities to ask myself that.
The burden that humans are putting on animals is too great. Problems that cannot occur naturally, such as animal testing of all kinds of products, disturbances in the habitat of wild animals, abandonment of pets, and malicious breeding, have arisen as excessive distortions in economic activity.
Just as a person cannot live alone, a human being should not live alone. We want to think about everything that makes up this world and coexist so that everyone can be comfortable.
We would like to do what we can to make everyone happy, including pets living with people, animals living in the wild, and the nature that envelops them.