Hello there I am brainstorming at the moment and I am looking for a potential BoB for our GSD, I have seen a EzyDog Summit Dog Backpack online.
My thinking is that this will hold some food and essential grooming items. She is long haired and gets upset if she isn't brushed
Would like to ask if anyone has got any experience of using this or similar? I am just looking at reducing the potential use of space and weight in my BoB.
When I had my rottweiler before he died he had a little back pack. He would wear it to carry water and maybe some snacks as I used to walk a lot along the canals by me. He didn't mind using it.
Thank you for the replies. I think I will take her to the local pet shop and try some on her. Be a good test to see if she is ok with it at the time for starters.
o0Pleomax0o wrote:Hello there I am brainstorming at the moment and I am looking for a potential BoB for our GSD, I have seen a EzyDog Summit Dog Backpack online.
My thinking is that this will hold some food and essential grooming items. She is long haired and gets upset if she isn't brushed
Would like to ask if anyone has got any experience of using this or similar? I am just looking at reducing the potential use of space and weight in my BoB.
Thanks
o0Pleomax0o
I suppose it depends what you're prepping for but I like to keep plenty dog food in the stores. I don't know how feasible it would be to 'bug out' with our two flatties carrying their own panniers, even with practice, if they were full of scran they would be trying to eat the packs off each others backs I wouldn't want to leave the dugs behind but if I was going to be having to flee for my life in a worst case scenario then I might have to make a few (well two) very hard decisions, each to their own but I'm not really prepping for the doomsday scenario, more shortages and that. While I can sustain myself for a while off the land, a veggie wife and a couple of dogs would be a bit tricky to support.
Deeps wrote:I wouldn't want to leave the dugs behind but if I was going to be having to flee for my life in a worst case scenario then I might have to make a few (well two) very hard decisions.
It doesn't even have to be a doomsday scenario, I'm afraid. I'll never, ever forget seeing some footage of a woman being rescued from a flooded river in South America - she'd saved her dog, and they were clinging to a big piece of wreckage that was bobbing along, temporarily out of the water. There were rescuers on the bank opposite the camera, and they flung the rope to her. She caught it, and tried to hold on to it with one hand, so she could keep hold of her dog as they pulled her to safety.
She couldn't manage it, and she instinctively let go of the dog to cling on to the rope with both hands. It was terrible to see.
In my case it would be the wife and the GSD that would be bugging out with me. No question about it. She comes every where with us, the German Sheppard I mean not the wife
She is included in all activities we do, she knows how much my EDC bag means to me and guards it very well. Also she has quite a bit of paracord round her neck, so she has her uses.
I've just read that back and makes me sound like a right nutter
I wouldn't want to leave the dugs behind but if I was going to be having to flee for my life in a worst case scenario then I might have to make a few (well two) very hard decisions, each to their own but I'm not really prepping for the doomsday scenario, more shortages and that. While I can sustain myself for a while off the land, a veggie wife and a couple of dogs would be a bit tricky to support.
to cling on to the rope with both hands. It was terrible to see.
