DIY Paralyzed Wiener dog drag bag

It is now April of 2016 ad Slinky is still going strong. He now lives with a husky. wolf mix and that still has not slowed Slinky down. He is  now 11 and will have been paralyzed 6 years this October. NOTHING slows him down, even in his size 4 diapers. I volunteer at a thrift store once a week and they set aside ripped or stained clothing for Slinky bags now. We live on 10 acres now and I think Slinky and Luna, the white dog, have explored every corner of the property.

With summer times coming and Slinky being outside alot I wanted to make sure his legs and butt had a thick covering. So before I sewed the tube I sewed a piece of leather. Now his nails will not cut through the fabric and the leather will keep sticks, weeds etc from getting stuck to his butt as he thumps along. When we wash the bags the leather gets a little wrinkly but so what LOL it does not have to be pretty to protect :-)

About 2-1/2 years ago while my family and I were on vacation we received a call that, Slinky, our dare devil wiener dog jumped off a bed and due to a vet's bad emergency care he became paralyzed in his hind end. He has never been able to walk on them again. We tell people do not feel sorry for our dog. He does not know or care that his hind legs and tail no longer function. He wears a regular baby diaper, but put on sideways, it only needs to hold his wiener in. He has a wheelchair that my husband built out of PVC pipe. It also has changeable wheel for the different terrains. When he is in the house or our small yard he prefers his drag bags. I looked them up online and the cost was crazy. So after many trial and errors I finally came up with the perfect bag. It holds his legs in nicely and is easy to put on and off. I am now working on a bag for him that will sweep our wood floors as he plays and runs around. I am thinking of a kind of fish tail for this LOL I the winter time I make the bad out of sweater shirts or fleece for warmth. He does not know when his back end is cold so we always keep his back end warm.

Sometimes you just need a turtle neck sweater on those cold fall mornings :-)

As I have said many times, Slinky has NO idea he cannot use his back legs. He hangs with the rest  :-)