Why I Created ABUBA: A Memory of My Mother's Back

I rode on my mother's back to school until I was eight.

It can't have been easy to carry a child that old. But to a small me, my mother's back was a comforting place. When I leaned against it, I could feel her warmth.

I grew up with a lot of love from my parents. I still remember that.

Living with dogs, I found myself wondering one day: could I give my dog the comfort I felt on my mother's back?

How I came to make a dog backpack

I had tried other bags to travel with my dog.

It was harder than I expected. Getting around with a dog wasn't easy, and the bags were uncomfortable for me too.

That's when I remembered being carried on my mother's back.

What if a dog could sit inside a bag, leaning back, while the person carried it on their back and walked along together?

That is where ABUBA began.

ABUBA takes its name from the Korean word "eobuba," which means carrying a young child on your back.

Of course, a dog's body isn't a person's body. So we had to make a base and a back support shaped for a dog.

The bottom of an ABUBA isn't flat because of that process. I wrote about it in Why the Bottom of an ABUBA Dog Backpack Isn't Flat.

Still making it

I have been developing and improving ABUBA for about ten years.

It wasn't like this from the start. We tried it with dogs, changed what was uncomfortable, and made it again.

Our own dogs have used ABUBA for a long time, too.

I never imagined that a memory of riding on my mother's back would lead to a dog backpack.

I wanted to give the dog I love the love I was given. That is why I made ABUBA.