Scratches and Drool on Your Car Doors? No More!

Today we are joining the brand new Thursday Barks and Bytes Blog Hop (hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Heart Like a Dog) with a review of Kurgo car door protectors.

I mentioned in my post on "An Angel's Twin" recently that we bought door protectors for my new car. I got them on Amazon for $22.50 for the set. 

Here's the view of the front side. The mesh part at the bottom is actually a pocket, so you could put the dog's leash or stash some poo bags in there.

 





  

The backside has some velcro (the black vertical strips) in case you need to shorten the length for your car. The square plastic tabs at the top are how you attach it to the door. 

There are 4 tabs that you slide in along the window glass.

At first, I couldn't get my tabs to slide in (the windows were so "tight" next to the rubber piece). But I found it was looser at at the back end of the window so started there and slid the tabs along.

And, voila, it was in place. As you can see, they hang down far enough to protect the arm rest if your dog is an arm-rest surfer, like Rita.

Now... Would they stay in place? 

Some of the Amazon reviews said they didn't like these because when you lower the window, they fall out. I was concerned, because Rita does like to have the window down a bit so she can sniff the air. 

So far they have stayed in, even when the windows go up and down - but I only lower them a few inches at the most. (I never lower the window the whole way - I imagine they'd fall out then.) Sometimes the tabs have come up a bit at the end of a car ride (from the window movement), but I just push them down again before we head out the next time. 

I suppose we could lower the window more if I worked again on training Rita to wear her Doggles.

Gratuitous cute dog shot

One did come out the other day (not all the way, but it was hanging, loose) when Rita went nuts as we drove past a big dog out for a walk. (Our 'hood has a lot of narrow streets with no sidewalk, so we often have to be in close proximity to dogs on walks. She hates that.) But, it hung in long enough to protect the door from her scratching at it. And since it was on the driver's side, I was able to reach back at a red light and get it back in place.
 
The bottom line: My old car doors were covered with dog hair and scratches, but I don't think that will be a problem anymore now that we have our car door protectors!

Now... just because it's so darn cute - one more shot of Rita in the Doggles:

Another Quick Shout-out
Thank you to Indie Author Land for posting the interview with me about Rescue Me, Maybe! If you're an indie author, check out their site - they'll tweet for you when your book is on sale and you can simply fill out their interview form on their site and hopefully they'll post it!

Note: I was not compensated for this post, or even asked to do the review. I wanted to review the product as others had asked for the review.  

Thanks again to 2 Brown Dawgs and Heart Like a Dog for hosting: