Kurgo G-Train Dog Carrier Backpack - Comfortable Travel Bag for Pets Up to 25 lbs - Waterproof Bottom - Multi-Compartment Pack - Dog Hiking Gear - Rugged Adventure Backpack - Ink Blue

We want to take our chocolate lab puppy out this winter for some snowshoe adventures and longer hikes. She isn't able to hike very far yet, and this pack will let us take her with us and carry her in a way that is comfortable for her and for us. At 16.5 pounds, she still has a lot of room to spare. We encouraged her with lots of treats, and she quickly took to riding in the pack. We fold a small fleece blanket at the bottom to help her head reach the porthole. The tether is helpful, although it isn't fail-safe. She almost climbed out when she saw a neighbor's dog. We carried her on the front the first few times so we could watch her and reassure her. The pack is well-made, and we appreciate the extra pockets. She will eventually outgrow the pack, but we got it knowing we can continue to use it as a backpack for ourselves or her stuff when we travel.

Air traveled with this- fabulous functionality & the dog seemingly enjoyed it. Will use again. Love the hard base; very durable.

Works SO well for my 20 pound senior Norwich terrier. There’s plenty of room for him to readjust and get comfortable! Super easy to get him in the pack (he actually jumped in and wouldn’t get out), and he feels safe and secure on my back. I’ve tried other dog packs on the market, but this one beats all of them for my slightly oddly shaped dog. I like that he has room to sit instead of being held upright by his spine. So worth!

I use this for a 4kg rescue cat. I think it’s overpriced, but it also seems to be the only pack of its kind on the market, so for me it’s worth it. Mostly I really like it, although when I use it I'm often finding ways it could be improved, and I’d buy an improved version. The good: Function - I travel regularly between two cities with my cat, a 90-minute commute that requires biking, walking, and several buses. Although I travel light, I generally need to bring a laptop and a few other items. This bag is perfect for that, and also inconspicuous and looks like a normal backpack. Pets are allowed on the bus, but my cat prefers not to have a lot of human attention, so he likes that he can see out the side vents, but people don’t notice him. The laptop compartment is roomy, although it won’t fit too much more than a laptop before it starts to intrude into the pet compartment. The pack is well-ventilated (at least for a cooler climate), and still keeps the cat dry in a light drizzle. It has a convenient number of pockets. I’m a smaller woman (47 kg, 162 cm) and had to adjust some of the straps to the shortest settings, but it’s not uncomfortable and I can wear it on my front as well. Cat rating - Cat is obsessed! I have to hide this to keep him from constantly trying to claw his way in, so instead he finds other backpacks in the house to curl up on. Granted, my cat was already excited about his carrier, and he likes to snuggle under covers and is not claustrophobic. Mileage may vary with other cats. I use additional padding in the bottom for longer trips. He can lie down, but there's not a ton of space left over, especially if I'm packing other stuff. Durability - I’ve had the bag a few months and it seems to be holding up well, even with abuse from the cat, who protests not being in the bag by trying to shred holes in it. As a result there are some minor perforations and runs in the fabric/straps, but it’s only cosmetic. The not-so good: Support - The hip straps really aren’t great. The pack doesn’t have a fully padded or detachable hip strap like the typical hiking pack, despite this pack being in a similar price range. Because the hip straps don’t actually fully encircle the hips, only the sides and the front, and the pack has no internal framing, the backpack tends to slide down in the back and hang off the shoulders, even with the hip straps fully tightened. If my pet were much heavier, this could be really uncomfortable. Security - I feel like this doesn’t offer much protection from bumps or from falls to the side, although for a more solidly-built animal than my little cat, perhaps this isn’t such a concern. The outward-facing part of the bag is soft and collapsible, and so the inner area is kept open during use by the weight of the cat in the hard base pulling the bag moderately taut against my shoulders. On the bus I’m always worried about people elbowing or pushing against my cat, and a bike accident could be catastrophic. The optional support bars add very little structure, aside from preventing the bag from completely folding in half. A better design (for cats or small dogs, anyway) might include plastic sheeting or boning inserted in the outer panel, top, and sides of the backpack, to give some reinforcement. I also don’t think the fabric is waterproof, and perhaps it should be at this price point. Price - I feel like it's good quality construction, but for a similar price you can get high-tech hiking backpacks with super light frames, waterproof fabrics, etc., while this is just a regular backpack with some extra padding and clever design elements. I feel they're able to price it like this because for whatever reason, most pet backpacks lack space for human storage.

The backpack is great and it was fairly easy to convince our 15 lbs Cairn Terrier to get in it. It seems to be really comfortable and it’s easy to carry. Unfortunately the chest strap already broke off after using it a handful of times and some of the zipper pulls ripped as well. I also wish the backpack was padded at the bottom a bit - the rubber part at the bottom isn’t the most comfortable against my back. Overall I’m happy with my purchase, but I wish the quality was better.

At first I wasn’t sure I was going to keep it but I decided I actually do like it so I kept it . Works very well and is very sturdy and durable. My 25 pound frenchie fits in there perfectly and he even is able to move around a little. There are enough pockets and space for everything I need on my hikes. I would say this is worth the money.

This backpack is really sturdy and has a solid bottom for support. Love that it has a removable cover inside. My senior pug loved going on vacation with us!

I just got this bag. I just used it with my cat. He is a very large cat. Erik the Red is both overweight and very long he's a very long cat. Probably 17 or 18 lbs. From head to tail he's about 22 in. He comfortably fits. I think I'm more often going to use this bag in the front over my chest not on my back. Probably the best way to do that is to clip the chest strap on first and then pull it over your head to pull it onto you like a Kevlar vest I guess I mean I've seen people on TV do that or movies. I think it's a very good quality and I've yet to see how it's going to work but I want to go biking and jogging or hiking with my cat and I have to see if he's amenable to that yet but yeah we'll see. I think the bag will not be the impediment my cat might be. The pictures that I included emphasize how to use the safety rods or that I don't know support rods that's it. Before I bought this bag a lot of the reviews were talking about how useless those support rods were and they're not useless it's the instructions are very bad! The zipper for the backpack straps it's got a bottom part and a top part just like an easy zipper does and if you don't realize that it's kind of hard to know that the the rods will go inside the very top part of that compartment where those back straps the backpack straps will be able to be checked into. The instructions are very bad but if you ever try to put the straps in which I think if you don't do that that's what the instructions ask you to do then you realize that the very top of that compartment is above the zipper and that's where the top part of those rods go. I think a lot of people to buy this bag never intend to use it as anything other than a backpack so they skip that part in the instructions and they never realize that that little like an inch and a half on the top of the bag in that back compartment they don't even want to mess with that zipper. You never realize that there's a top part of it.