We recently connected with Daniel Whitton and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Daniel thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

After high school, I left home for Nacogdoches to attend SFASU where my interests outside of the classroom got in the  way. I took advice, searched my soul to find direction, and decided to go to work instead. I am glad I was raised correct  and know God when he appears to me. I listen, watch, and feel for him always. It is through the opportunity to do great  things I get the chance to create in my carpentry, my husbandry, my fatherhood, and now my remainder of this fairy tale  existence and journey to being a whole person. I try to not make claims or predictions, but I expect the moment I  bettered myself was the day I stepped onto a home building jobsite for the first time and began putting to use my  understanding of geometry and mathematics into building homes by hand. 

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Know a Good Thing when you See It. I met my wife 5 years before we started dating. It was Love at first sight. Yes, It  Can Happen. I saw a corona of light around her. We were in love, just needed a little more time apart. So, as the story  goes, I ran, albeit I saved my heart, and 5 years later we were then inseparable. We began a family in Justin Texas with  

our respective dog hounds and a baby on the way. A year passes and our blond Labrador gets an affliction, an aural  hematoma. At the time, living across the street is an animal vet care specialist, and she showed me how to aspirate. We  could not afford a surgery, and we did not want to hurt her anymore with needle pricks. After 20 years owing a business as a professional finish carpenter, I knew I needed to create something for my pet. I looked, I saw, and I created the  Auralsplint.  

Before computers in my house in 2001, I researched at Denton Municipal Library for any and all obstacles to claiming the  device. I chose to write a patent application to USPTO and low and behold they returned it. Not to be let down, I double  spaced it and sent it back. They accepted it and in 2006 I was issued my first patent 7,153,313.  

Some might think this is the finish line. It was just the starting point. A piece of paper does not make a business. 10,000  hours might make someone an expert in their field. In 2012 I started a five-year study, self-funded, and returns for 25%  for a field trials experiment in effectiveness and to develop a better aural splint product. My thanks go out to all the  participants for their diligence, honesty, and efforts. No incentives were offered other than the promise of healing their  dog without wounding it. I digested the results, and compiled a manuscript called Auralsplint – Descriptive Report. I self published the report with now approaching 1000 reads since 2020.  

In 2020, I set aside my full-time carpentry work to focalize my efforts into creating the future of the Auralsplint. Along  with writing a second novel specification for a second patent, I wrote the Articles of Incorporation for our business  Auralsplint Inc. PBC. The Texas For-Profit Corporation includes a non-profit arm to someday be able to help other non profits with low or no cost treatment kits. My son reminds me of this often as doing the good originating from the idea  to not hurt the dog but heal it. 

The road to this point has been long, hard, expensive, fulfilling, enjoying, and now exploding into the idea as once  formed. We stand with a large, honest, effective product just outside the Veterinary Industry. We are starting to solicit  clinical reviews and issue treatment kit starter packs for clinical trials. We are full force into delivering the veterinary  market a tool to better treat aural hematoma in dog. Our website is Auralsplint.org. Our product is the Auralsplint – Aural Hematoma Treatment Canine.  

The field we have chosen is ripe for investment. Our Corporation holds several separate iterations of developable  products. We have an FDA conclusion. We have history. And, now with our newest patent, we have legs in the USA and  potential for global usage. Scaling to accommodate is already in consideration. Come join us in  #Healingwithoutwounding canine aural hematoma.  

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

I have seen clients my entire working career as a self-employed finish carpenter and business owner of 35 years, DFW  Carpentry. Satisfied clients make returning clients. A good to better product stands by itself. A quality-run business  mirrors the products delivered. A hands-on solution makes a difficult situation bearable and an outcome exceeding  expectations makes for a great relationship. The Veterinary Industry needs help with perception. Not all Vets are money  grubbing elites. Most are in the field because they were drawn to it, to help and do things beyond the normal. I think  clinics could use a moral makeover and return to delivering quality care at affordable prices, and the clients will  understand and be satisfied with expectations and treatment.  

Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?

The field of Veterinary medicine really was brought on by chance. My animal came down with an aural hematoma. I had  a brand-new mortgage, brand new baby, and bills to carry. Paying for a surgeon to filet my dog’s ear open was not  something I wanted or could afford. When I watched my dog wince for the third time aspirating her ear, I knew I needed  to create. So, I went to work on it and came up with a non-surgical compression device to stop the ear from swelling and  stop the hematoma from filling. I was very proud. showed my neighbor who has worked with dogs for many years at a  vet clinic, and she stated she had never seen anything like that. That was the ‘Lightbulb moment’.  

The ‘Market’ has been fickle to say the least. Vets are stubborn to try anything they are unfamiliar with. Financial  limitations have been burdensome, but I have diligently walked, carried, crawled, and stood up for those in need of a  better solution to a very profitable/costly problem. My reputation is of someone ingenious enough to create an Industry  Solution to help, and hopefully provide my family, the USA, and the World the so-called better mousetrap, albeit in the  form of a dog ear hematoma splint.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Auralsplint.org
• Facebook: Auralsplint

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