Hi guys.
It's Andrew Esquivel here back with another review and today I'm going to be
reviewing the SleepyPod Pet Carrier/Car Seat.Now this is one of the earlier SleepyPod products
you could have bought and if you wanted to keep your pets safe, this is what
you got.
It can strap into your car without the necessity of using anchor points and still
be safe, and I will show you that later on in the
review.
But for now let's go over the actual pod itself.
Now the first thing you'll notice is that the materials are very heavy duty, very strong
and very well made, all the stitches are done
correctly, all the materials are top notch.
If you want to carry your pet around it's got the
shoulder strap, that's padded.
The pet carrier itself is actually relatively large.
You should be able to fit just about to fit any normal
sized housecat in here, even a small dog.
I will show you with a little stand-in just how
big this thing is.
But first, we have to break it down, because this does in fact
disassemble.
You can get accessories for your SleepyPod but I don't have the
accessories, we're just going to go over the SleepyPod itself.
So, first off, right here, you have this strap.
This is where one of the points of the seatbelt is going to strap in.
Over here we have the zipper.
The zipper allows you to open this up so you can just put your pet
inside, and we're going to zip this back up for a
moment because there is yet another zipper.
All the way over here we have this zipper, and if we undo this zipper all the way around
- and this is a nice heavy zipper - we can
take the entire top half of the SleepyPod off.
Now I want to know if this mesh is rubberized plastic.
If your pet starts to chew on it, it might give way, so hopefully your four legged
friend doesn’t do that.
So we've got this, and it's a really soft, plush, faux fur liner and it's really comfy.
You can see that it's not small but it's not big at
the same time.
So going back to my little stand-in buddy, here is my stand-in buddy, little tiger,
and this little tiger fits with the small SleepyPod ClickIt Harness, and he fits in
pretty decently.
So essentially, if you have a
pet that uses an extra small SleepyPod Harness your pet will definitely fit inside the little
carrier and car seat here.
So, that's just to kind of show you the size, and comparing it
to other SleepyPod products.
So this fur liner here can be taken out.
Once again we unzip it, in case your pet has an
accident, this whole liner can be taken out and this is the bottom, it's just a hardened
canvas kind of material.
So let's put this aside and talk about the liner.
This liner works with two different materials.
One, we've got the faux fur, and we've go this kind of foamy
plush material to make it feel more comfortable for your pet.
Now one of the accessories I was talking about is, like for instance, a heating pad to
keep your pet warm in the SleepyPod.
There's a number of other things I believe you
can get but you'd have to look at the SleepyPod website.
Now you can remove the faux fur from the liner here.
There is yet another zipper down here in which you would use to do that.
Now I'm not going to take it all the way apart because you pretty much get the idea.
When I put this back together real quick, zip it all
the way around.
There you go, that's part one.
Then part two is the top portion here.
Slide that on into place and zip all the way around.
And you've got your SleepyPod Car Seat Pet Carrier back together again.
So I was showing you before what an animal that fits with the small SleepyPod Harness
looks like fitted on the inside, but that was about the top.
Let me show you what it kind of looks like with some headroom.
So let's open this up, bring back our little tiger buddy,
put him in, and he fits pretty decently.
Zip this back up.
He's got a decent bit of room to move around in there.
So as you'll notice I'm not using a real animal for this review because it's much easier to
work with a little stuffed animal when showing the features of this particular product.
So let's zip this back up and we're going to go in the car and I'll show you how it
hooks up.
Okay, so now that we have the SleepyPod Pet Carrier in the car we take our seatbelt,
take the bottom portion, and then we take this Velcro piece right here, undo it, slide
the seatbelt over there, under the Velcro piece,
and the Velcro piece comes back up, you keep it nice and tight, over like that.
Then you go and secure the SleepyPod by clicking the belt in and then you take the second portion
up at the top here, and you do the same
under the Velcro loop, and then back over - secured - and then we take the
seatbelt and have it so that it doesn’t extend any longer, it's locked in.
And now you have your SleepyPod pet bed carrier/car seat
all nice and secured inside the car.