Review : The ReTyre Grippy

If you read my post you’ll know that I’m determined to get some walks with Maisie in during the later part of our Canadian winter here in SW Ontario. I never know how much of my half hour walk will be on clear sidewalks. Walking on the road may not be an option if it hasn’t been plowed and personally I’d prefer to keep us both safely on the sidewalk.

Last year I had the experience of attempting to push the pet stroller through thick, trodden snow. It was even worse when I had to push over solid frozen ridges of ice/snow on the sidewalk. It makes for a rough go. Stroller wheels are just not made for pushing on densely snow covered surfaces.

In upping my winter walking gear, I decided to invest in a new product I recently found online when looking for stroller skis (recommended by another Canadian stroller cat-mom.)

The Grippy is a tire cover with extra grip and studs to enable the stroller wheels to maintain traction on snow and ice. This product was the answer to my dilemma about how hard it had been to push the stroller on snowy sidewalks. I ended up ordering the set of Grippys and one stroller ski. *

I couldn’t wait to test The Grippy. The covers were very easy to put onto my two rear stroller wheels. Next to put my precious cargo, Maisie the Cat, into the stroller covered in blankets and off we went. The walk was amazing!

*Although the stroller skis are sold in a set of 3 or 4 skis, I contacted Premier Ski with my idea of combining one ski with the set of two ReTyre Grippys and they happily sold me the custom set.