Summary: Learn why you should get your dog a backpack for hiking in this free video.
Elise McMahon has a Ph.D. in animal behavior and has been working with both domestic and wild dogs since the early 1990s. She began studying domestic dogs in the behavior clinic of the...read more
"So if your going to be going a nice long walk in the woods and your going to be carrying before we talked about carrying water for yourself and water for your dog, but you might want to get your dog a little day pack as well just like we had on our selves earlier. So this is a one version its a fairly light weight version there's a couple of pockets here on either side. It's got a chest strap that fits right around the front here to keep it in place and then underneath it's got a another strap to keep it snuggled on the dogs body. And your dog can actually wear this, come on pumpkin, and she can help you carry stuff, her own stuff you can actually if your going to be walking off leash, telling Ursa to wait, good girl, if your going to be walking off leash part of the time, wait you can put her leash right in her little pockets here. Wait, good girl. So your leash free and and you can go continue on your walk, let's go baby, good girl."
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