Pooches In Pouches Are All The Rave

The inexorable rise of the designer doggy bag, with the likes of Geri Halliwell, Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson constantly toting their shih tzus and malti-poos in monogrammed pet-carriers, has reached critical mass. “It’s clear that these bags are nothing more than papoose substitutes for the childless,” Matthew Morris of the Blue Ribbon Dog Company, a pet-accessories emporium in New York, tells the New Zealand Herald. “These dogs are treated like eternal babies, which is kind of unhealthy, both for the dogs’ development and definitely for their owners’.” Read more.