The Doggie Bag: dog walking rucksack review
It’s quite often a challenge to remember everything you need when you leave to walk the dog. I’ve often got several steps down the road and had to head back for a bottle of water, a ball and sometimes even poo bags. It’s just impractical to keep one of everything in every coat or pair of trousers. Enter The Doggie Bag…
A featured product by the BBC at Crufts, The Doggie Bag is a comfortable rucksack in a modern design, and has four main zippered pockets, including one large main rucksack compartment to keep everything you could think of: phone, keys, ball, muzzle, training lead, extra treats, whistle, clicker, bottle of water, bowl, towel…. it can all fit in here! If anything gets dirty on your walk you can keep that in the removable, washable pouch at the bottom of the main compartment. But if that was it, then it’d just be a rucksack. The Doggie Bag is not just a rucksack, however…
The most ingenious thing about The Doggie Bag is that not only does it have a specially designed integral poo bag dispenser (yes, you read that right: lift up the magnetic popper flap and simply pull out a poo bag then replace the flap and no one would ever know you had in fact an entire roll of poo bags at your disposal designed into your rucksack!) but it even has an integral poo bin. A water resistant, removable, washable, drawstring pouch in the main compartment is the perfect place to carry full poo bags out of sight (and smell), leaving both hands free and you to enjoy your walk until you get to a bin. This feature alone is in my opinion, worth the price of the bag and a very clear statement both socially and for your conscience that you are a responsible owner. This is the first product that really does make a difference to every community, helping to promote responsible ownership.
If you do a lot of training on your walks (perhaps you’re training a puppy or have a reactive dog), maybe walk dogs for a living or perhaps have more than one dog and always have your hands full, I’d strongly recommend taking a look at The Doggie Bag. It’s available in a choice of colours and now with reflective piping to keep safe at dusk. I’ve only had mine a few days but the quality seems just fine in a wipe clean fabric that you’d expect in an outdoorsy bag like this. The zips appear to be sturdy and of good quality - one improvement I’d like to see are toggles attached to the zips to make it easier to open when your hands are wet and/or cold. It’s a fantastically well thought-out design though that has full support from the National Responsible Dog Owners Campaign.
£25 including 40 lightly scented poo bags
Available here.
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