diff --git a/datadog/dogstatsd.go b/datadog/dogstatsd.go
index fe021d0..6232601 100644
--- a/datadog/dogstatsd.go
+++ b/datadog/dogstatsd.go
@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@ func NewDogStatsdSink(addr string, hostName string) (*DogStatsdSink, error) {
 	return sink, nil
 }
 
+// NewDogStatsdSinkFromClient returns a DogStatsdSink that uses a pre-existing datadog client
+func NewDogStatsdSinkFromClient(client *statsd.Client, hostName string) *DogStatsdSink {
+	return &DogStatsdSink{
+		client:            client,
+		hostName:          hostName,
+		propagateHostname: false,
+	}
+}
+
 // SetTags sets common tags on the Dogstatsd Client that will be sent
 // along with all dogstatsd packets.
 // Ref: http://docs.datadoghq.com/guides/dogstatsd/#tags
diff --git a/datadog/dogstatsd_test.go b/datadog/dogstatsd_test.go
index 43b81ac..3601823 100644
--- a/datadog/dogstatsd_test.go
+++ b/datadog/dogstatsd_test.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"reflect"
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-go/statsd"
 	"github.com/armon/go-metrics"
 )
 
@@ -83,6 +84,20 @@ func setupTestServerAndBuffer(t *testing.T) (*net.UDPConn, []byte) {
 	return server, make([]byte, 1024)
 }
 
+func TestFromClient(t *testing.T) {
+	client := &statsd.Client{}
+	hostname := "fake-hostname"
+	sink := NewDogStatsdSinkFromClient(client, hostname)
+
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(sink.client, client) {
+		t.Fatalf("Client assigned to sink did not match what was passed in")
+	}
+
+	if sink.hostName != hostname {
+		t.Fatalf("Sink hostname did not match what was passed in, %v != %v", sink.hostName, hostname)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestParseKey(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, tt := range ParseKeyTests {
 		dog := mockNewDogStatsdSink(DogStatsdAddr, tt.Tags, tt.PropagateHostname)