"To the Dicky bag team. I am a professional dog walker and have bought products before which you use to carry your dogs No2's in and have given up with them with in a couple of days as they have always been so impractical to use. I must say I have been using my Dicky bag for 3 weeks now and love it!
I won a Dicky bag at alocal dog show, having never heard of the company before I didn't know just how great this product was. We take our bag to every show,walk and journey and it really is brilliant. You wouldn't know what it contained and I honestly couldn't live without our now! My mum and sister are having one each for christmas they are amazed. I keep having to ask for my bag back from my sister who tries stealing it on a regular basis!
Thanks to all at Dicky Bags for making our life easier, less embarrasing and more convient. Dicky bags make being a responsible dog owner stylish and cool!
We're just your average family who originate from a sleepy village in Essex, sold our souls to the devil when we worked in London but then woke up to the problem and decided to up sticks and move to Cornwall with no job to find a better life for our children and ourselves.
This is when I thought there must be something out there that can solve my problem, but after much searching by my husband and me we found nothing. I wanted a lightweight, soft but fairly rigid receptacle that would mean I could carry the poo I had so conscientiously picked up and be able to continue my walk with both hands free. Welcome to Dog walking heaven, and welcome to the Dicky Bag.
Although my husband, Barry, and i had had successful careers in London, Barry as an advertising account director at top advertising agencies such as Bartle Bogle and Hegarty and myself as an theatrical agent and later running my own dance school and theatre school, neither of us had the knowledge or expertise to manufacture a product.
Living in Newquay, the surf capital, and being surrounded be wetsuit shops our first thought was to use neoprene. It's lightweight, semi rigid and the rubber can form an airtight seal. So we sought advice and took our ideas to a local neoprene factory and were greeted with a sideways glance and a chuckle. They thought we had lost our marbles. Never-the-less they came up with a prototype and although some small changes have been made even from day 1 we have appreciated the qualities of the bag and all our doubters have been made to think about the problem that exists either from personal experience or from talking to friends and agree that the Dicky Bag is amazing and will be incredibly successful. People that new we were developing the bag have been nagging us waiting for the first delivery.
We have chosen some lovely fabrics, it's amazing the variety of neoprene you can get, so the dicky bag can be a fashion statement as much as a practical solution. Friends that don't have dogs still want to buy one because they look so good!
We've been using the bag for 18 months now and it is inconceivable to us to take the dogs for a walk with out the Dicky Bag. Because of the clever storage system in the lid we know we always have clean bags no matter how many poos we have to clear up. We also choose to store the dog's ball in the bag so it's just pick up the lead and bag and off you go (not forgetting the dog of course!).
Poo is no longer an issue for our family. Even the kids think it's cool to carry the dicky bag. The Camouflage bag proved to be a particular hit for our boys. Now I'm not going to be as silly as to suggest that our kids volunteer to pick up the poo but when they take the dog out on there own because the deed is over and done with quickly and the evidence is hidden away in a cool looking device they don't object. They are growing up to be responsible people.
We are blessed with a large, and usually, happy family. Patrick, Guy, Craig and Arianne. Dogs Rosie, Irish Terrier 3 and Barney Fang, Poodle x Patterdale terrier (he needed a big name because he's only a little dog!).
We want to make the most of life hence the move to Cornwall. We don't want to look back on our life with a list of "if only's" or "we missed that with our kids". We're not work shy, in fact far from it. We did our time in the corporate world earning money for other people who always wanted more and weren't friends with the word thanks. We have a bigger agenda now; happiness and that can be the hardest work of all.