Our Story - Why we started
To get over the stresses of running a business and to escape what seemed even more stress when going home! like most of us we take up little hobbies to make us feel we are not all just hamsters in a cage running in that annoying wheel. Going into work one morning with the new hobby, it was a small bag that had been filled with cool gadgets and things I would need that day at work……………. It was this moment that started this whole new chapter in my life, the birth of Anglo Forro! Later I will come back to how the name came about.
Jason who worked in the office also had a keen interest in the military and going out camping and without knowing this at soon did from the over exaggerated outburst of excitement on Jason’s face, that I had brought in this bag. Like most big kids you then chat for hours about it and go stupidly over the top about what you will purchase next. two weeks later we are out camping and 6 weeks later driving to places to buy new gear! This was our passion and we enjoyed it that much we decided to start our own business as what more fun could we have, ordering in new products to try out before we would recommend them to others.
Before we knew it our passion soon became others interests around us and we started this gathering that we could escape from everything and talk about our interests. The goings on in the news would also ramp up our need for our newly purchased goods and more things to talk about. The store started off very small and soon began to flood with new items the more we would research each week. We would come into our day job and scribble on the board new products to try out. We made a promise that we would look to only stock items that we had tried and tested before hand, there was no point selling things that were of no or little use…. I mean this was our passion not just a collection of anything we could find to slap into our store!
The name Anglo Forro developed from a project I undertook. I had a previous hobby!! yes another one! I was a proud owner of The True Presa Canario dog. The ones from Tenerife, unfortunately however in the dog world it is very unforgiving and lots of people who try to change things for money or for other purposes. After 8 years of owning and travelling backwards and forwards to Tenerife, importing dogs for my breedings, I decided I had had enough. Not of the dog but of the other breeders and owners.
People always wanted something different, there was no uniform with this dog and so I decided to create my own breed. A breed I could say this is how it should be, with purpose, with uniform and with its own look. I wanted to create a survival dog. A dog that could survive with little food, could catch its own food and also have the courage to not become food! “Forro” was the spanish name for “Shuck” the black mystical dog and so this dog that had not yet been created formed the model of our vision. One day I will write more about this dog but for now this is enough to explain why we are called Anglo Forro. Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to the Angles, England often used to describe something originating from England.
The dogs also have a new lease of importance not only are they my pets and passion outside of work they became the founding name of my second hobby which became work! If thats not importance I don’t know what is.
My father also now converted to the cause and now adopting our passion! Is a very talented artist, most of my life he has had my admiration for his talent to carve wonderful pieces of art from stone and so what better person to create and design our company logo than him.
We all go to work with enjoyment and interest all the things we didn’t have in our previous job, the efforts we put in reaped the rewards in our new adventure. All the things that did not happen in our other business the more you put in sometimes it never materialised into fruition. The more we went out and enjoyed ourselves now in our new adventure the more knowledgable we became and had new ideas about products and how the new site should look, how it could be better than other businesses, how we could become different. We now cannot shut off from our passion, we constantly strive for offering great products and a lifestyle that others can also enjoy, and for you to become part of our passion and following - ANGLO FORRO