Jack Pyke Technical Dog Vest - A dog's review

Archie’s review:  We were a tad surprised when Archie took to the laptop after a long walk in the falling snow, but are very pleased to share his review of his new ‘Technical Dog Vest’ made by Jack Pyke. 

Dave-man got me a Fancy-Vest to keep me warm. I’m not too bothered when it’s sunny as my coat is nice and white and not too thick, I enjoy the breeziness in my fur.  But Dave says my new coat will be very useful for when the cold white stuff falls again.  He said it will even help me not sink when I fall off the boat like last time, I don’t really want to talk about that though.

My first thoughts were not too good; Fancy-Vest was brought to Dave’s house by the Bad-man who wears the small trousers, he comes almost every day and pokes things through the hole in the door, sneaky Bad-man is definitely up to no good. 

But when I tried it on, I discovered the Fancy-Vest is very comfy and fits nicely. Dave-man says he got me an extra small but I’m a pretty big dog so there must have been some mistake.  He helped me put it on and tells me it does up with a zipp and Velcro and is made of Neoprene, whatever they are. There’s foamy bits for floating too which you can take out if you want, but I like them because they’re extra warm. 

We crossed the road to go for a walk over the fields and woods.  This is the most dangerous bit of the whole walk because the cars sneak up on you if you’re not looking.  That’s why you have to BARK BARK BARK so that they’re scared of you and drive away. I’m the best at this, Dave-man has to hold me back with my lead or the cars would get too scared of me.  My lead attaches to my Fancy-Vest very cleverly, you can’t even see the silver bits.

Dave lets me off the lead in the field. I run with my mouth open to try to catch the white flakes but all I catch is a wetter colder tongue.  The Fancy-Vest is very easy to move in and feels much warmer, mostly on my tummy where my fur is rather thin. 

In the woods Dave takes ages and doesn’t keep up with me because he’s looking at leaves as usual, he doesn’t like it when I try to lift my leg on them but I thought maybe that would make them smell better.  I find a good stump tree instead and have a snuffle right in it.  I reckon the dumb mice living in the stump tree wont know I’m coming because it turns out I’m invisible in my Fancy-Vest.  The mice seem to have left the stump, probably scared off by impressive digging.  My Fancy-Vest looks just like trees and Dave can’t see me when I keep still. 

Me mice hunting.

As well as invisible, I can also zoom around even faster after those stupid rabbits without getting hurt on sticks and prickly plants, because my Fancy-Vest has armour plating at the front. I’m going to be the best dog hunter in Sussex.

I don't need to use these leaves to be invisible anymore.  Thanks Jack Pyke!

All I need now is Fancy-vest attachment to help me climb trees and get those sneaky squirrels.  

Me working on my plie