After spending years with a traveling circus as the "Dog Boy", Don couldn't take anymore crap from the Bearded Lady and wanted a change. He had seen a few tattoos done on other carnie folk, and figured it couldn't be that hard if those idiots could do it. So he started helping the Tattooed Man, and after figuring out the finer points and learning on some other unfortunate souls, he finally left the circus to open his own shop... The Howling Dog Collective.