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Bugaboo Comfort Transport Bag for Bugaboo Strollers

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Bugaboo’s Comfort Transport Bag protects your stroller from water damage and scratches while traveling. The bag is made of durable fabric that wears well. It stands up without falling over, and has wheels, carry handles and padded shoulder straps to get you to your destination. A separate bag for front and rear wheels helps keep the stroller clean.

• 37.5” x 17” x 22.4”
• Stands upright
• Two wheels for easy rolling
• Folds into a more compact size
• Water-repellent, high quality fabrics
• Features protective padding and a separate wheel bag
• Compatible with Bugaboo Ant, Bee (2007 model), Bee (2010 model), Bee 3, Bee 5, Bee 6, Buffalo, Cameleon (2007 model), Cameleon 3, Cameleon 3 plus, Donkey, Donkey 2, Donkey 3, Donkey 5, Dragonfly, Fox, Fox 2, Fox 3, Fox 5, Fox Cub, Lynx

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Bugaboo Universal Comfort Transport Bag

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Suitable for all strollers, the Bugaboo Universal Comfort Transport Bag keeps your stroller safe from damage, scratches and dirt while traveling. The self-standing bag has comfortable carry handles and wheels for easy rolling. It includes padded shoulder straps for carrying and a separate bag for front and rear wheels keeping the stroller clean. The bag folds compactly for storage when not in use. The Bugaboo Universal Comfort Transport Bag is compatible with all Bugaboo strollers.

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It takes some reading to understand how to fold down the stroller (we have a Donkey). But you can have it down and packed in about 5 minutes. The case very firm and we look forward to traveling with it this summer.

We liked it a lot, it protects the stroller very well and everything that fits in it.The only drawback is that it is too big for some airlines.

I have taken this bag to the airport with me twice already and it has handled the travel very well. I carried it with me to the gate and also checked it in. Both times my stroller has come back with no damage and the bag still together. The only trouble is having to take it apart and pack everything up otherwise it is great and fits everything. I have a bugaboo fox 5 and can still fit a few other things in the bag.

This is a really solid cover that will be great when we go to travel.

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Keep your Bugaboo stroller always protected from water damage and scratches with the Bugaboo comfort transport bag. Featuring comfortable carry handles, shoulder straps, and handy wheels, rolling from the airport baggage claim to a taxi stand will seem like a breeze. The separate bag for the front and rear stroller wheels will keep the bag clean. This transport bag has self-standing mode and folds into a compact size for easy storage when not in use.

• Protects your stroller during travel against dirt, scratches, and water damage
• It stands upright and has two wheels for easy rolling
• Compact size when not in use for easy storage
• Water-repellent, high quality fabrics
• Features protective padding and a separate wheel bag

Compatible Products

• Bugaboo Ant
• Bugaboo Bee (2007 model)
• Bugaboo Bee (2010 model)
• Bugaboo Bee 3
• Bugaboo Bee 5
• Bugaboo Bee 6
• Bugaboo Buffalo
• Bugaboo Cameleon (2007 model)
• Bugaboo Cameleon 3
• Bugaboo Cameleon 3 plus
• Bugaboo Donkey
• Bugaboo Donkey 2
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• Bugaboo Fox
• Bugaboo Fox 2
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• Bugaboo Fox 5
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• Bugaboo Lynx

Bugaboo Comfort Transport Travel Bag

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How to Pack Bugaboo Fox in Travel Bag?

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To pack a Bugaboo Fox in a travel bag, use a Bugaboo transport bag for extra protection and check it in as odd size luggage. This minimizes the chance of damage to the stroller.

When traveling with a Bugaboo Fox, it is important to ensure that it is properly packed in a travel bag to prevent any damage. The Bugaboo transport bag is recommended for extra protection. By using this bag, you can check in the stroller as odd size luggage, reducing the risk of any potential harm during transport.

We will guide you on how to pack a Bugaboo Fox in a travel bag, ensuring that your stroller remains safe and secure throughout your journey.

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Step-by-step Guide

To pack the Bugaboo Fox in a travel bag, follow these steps:

• Remove any accessories attached to the stroller.
• Clean and wipe down the stroller.
• Make sure the stroller is in its folded position.
• Detach the seat from the base.
• Fold the base of the stroller by pushing the release buttons on the sides.
• Follow the manufacturer’s instructions to fold the handlebar and canopy.
• Open the travel bag and lay it flat on the ground.
• Carefully place the folded stroller in the bag.
• Secure any loose straps or buckles.
• Zip up the travel bag and make sure it is tightly closed.
• If the bag has wheels, make sure they are facing upwards.
• Check for any additional pockets or compartments and secure them.

Bonus Tip: It is always a good idea to check the manufacturer’s instructions for specifics on packing your Bugaboo Fox in the travel bag.

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Tips And Recommendations

Traveling with a Bugaboo Fox? Ensure its safety with these tips on how to pack it in a travel bag . Take extra precautions by using a transport bag to minimize the risk of damage during your journey.

Frequently Asked Questions On How To Pack Bugaboo Fox In Travel Bag

Can you take bugaboo fox on plane.

Yes, you can take the Bugaboo Fox on a plane by using a transport bag for extra protection and checking it in as odd size luggage. This reduces the risk of damage to your stroller. Visit the Bugaboo website for more information on the transport bag.

Can You Travel With Bugaboo?

Yes, you can travel with Bugaboo. It is recommended to use a transport bag for extra protection and check the stroller as odd-size luggage to minimize the chance of damage.

How Do You Remove The Fabric From A Bugaboo Fox?

To remove the fabric from a Bugaboo Fox, follow these steps: 1. Unzip and remove the canopy. 2. Detach the seat fabric from the frame. 3. Remove the bassinet fabric by unzipping it. 4. Gently pull off the fabric from the frame.

5. Clean the fabric according to the manufacturer’s instructions.

Is Bugaboo Bee Compact?

Yes, the Bugaboo Bee is compact and easy to travel with. It can be folded up and stored in a small, lightweight transport bag for protection during travel.

To ensure the safety and protection of your Bugaboo Fox stroller during travel, using a transport bag is highly recommended. This will minimize the risk of damage and ensure that your stroller remains in pristine condition. Bugaboo offers a range of transport bags specifically designed for their strollers, providing you with peace of mind while on the go.

Investing in a transport bag for your Bugaboo Fox is a wise decision to make your travel experience hassle-free and worry-free.

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Gray foxes resemble small dogs with bushy tails. They have long bodies, relatively short legs, pointed noses, and large pointed ears. They are silvery gray with a black streak extending to the tip of their tail. The gray fox is found throughout most of the southern half of North America, in many different habitats. They are nocturnal and during the day den in hollow trees, stumps, or burrows.

The gray fox gives birth to pups in a ground burrow. Litters of 1 to 7 pups are born in April or May, with both parents caring for their young. At 3 months of age pups begin to hunt with their parents. One month later, they are able to forage for food on their own. Family groups will stay together until fall, when the young disperse.

The gray fox is the only true tree climber in the canine family. They have strong, hooked claws that allow them to scramble up trees to avoid predators or to access fruit.

Gray foxes perform a valuable service by controlling rodent and insect populations. Their diet consists of rabbits, mice, squirrels, insects and fruit.

Many foxes are shot or poisoned by farmers concerned about their livestock. In truth, foxes are not a serious threat. They are also hunted and killed for sport, and trapped for their fur. Predators include bobcats, wolves, coyotes and domestic dogs.

Preventing a problem

Don’t leave petfood outside and pick up fallen fruit, as this attracts rodents and other small animals that are gray foxes’ food source

Cut back low shrubs and vines where rodents may hide

Secure any farm animals such as chickens, as they are prey for gray foxes

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If you encounter a gray fox in your yard:

• Never feed a gray fox
• Avoid direct eye contact
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• Spray with a hose until the gray fox leaves

If you encounter a gray fox in your neighborhood or on your local trails:

• Don’t feed a gray fox
• Don’t turn your back or run from a gray fox, and leave the area calmly
• If followed by a gray fox, make loud noises and make yourself look as big as possible
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Island Grey Fox

Common Names: Coast Fox, Short-tailed Fox, Channel Island Fox, Insular Gray Fox, Dwarf Fox Genus: Urocyon Species: littoralis

About 16,000 to 18,000 years ago the world experienced its last major ice age. Much of the ocean's water had turned to ice and the level of the remaining seas were lower than they are today. The Santa Barbara channel off the coast of southern California in North America was narrow enough for animals to cross over. One of these animals was a relative of the grey fox . When the ice age ended, and the ice began to melt, the sea levels rose. Over time the foxes found themselves cut off from the mainland on a string of islands. Today the island grey fox can still be found on six of the largest of the Channel Islands 19 to 60 miles off

the coast of southern California. These are the islands of Santa Catalina, San Clemente, San Nicholas, San Miguel, Santa Cruz, and Santa Rosa.

The Channel Islands have a Mediterranean climate which is hot and dry in the summer, and cool and wet in the winter. In America it is know as chaparral. There are many different types of habitats on the Channel Islands. There are valleys and foothill grasslands, coastal sage/scrub, sand dunes, coastal oak and pine forests, and marshes. The island grey fox lives in all of them.

Many people don't even know the island grey fox exists. Its not hard to overlook these distant cousins of the mainland grey fox, they are tiny. They became smaller by a type of evolution called natural selection. Because there is a limited supply of food, water and territory on an island, large foxes had a hard time surviving. But when a small runt of a fox was born, it didn't need as much food or territory. This would enable it to survive to a breeding age and pass its small genes along to the next generation. Over time the foxes became smaller and smaller.

It is actually the smallest fox species in the United States and is almost as small as Africa's fennec fox. It only stand 5 to 6 inches tall at the shoulders and weighs 3 to 4 pounds. Females weigh a little less than males. Its head and body lengths range from 19 to 20 inches, and the tail is about 4 to 12 inches long. The tail actually has two less vertebrae than the mainland grey fox.

The island grey fox looks very much like its larger cousin, the mainland grey fox. Its coat can range from cinnamon, light grey or red, but is mostly a combination of all these colors. The chin, lips, nose, and the areas around the eyes are outlined in black. Its ears, neck and the sides of its legs are usually cinnamon. The tail has a thin black stripe on the top side while the bottom side is cinnamon. Young foxes usually have a paler and thicker fur coat and their ears are a darker color compared to the adults. From August to November the island grey fox molts, or gets a new coat of fur. Their old fur coats fade in color and the tips of the hairs curl at the ends.

Although it is only as large as a house cat, the Island grey fox belongs to the Canidae family, the same family wolves, coyotes and domestic dogs belong to. The island grey fox is also the only carnivore found nowhere else except in California.

The island grey fox is solitary and diurnal, being active mostly in the early morning and in the evening. They hunt mostly during the day, but are known to move around at night. Island grey foxes are called omnivorous because they eat both plants and animals. Depending on where they live their diets can consist of mostly insects and fruit like manzanita, toyon, saltbush, prickly pear, and the fruit of sea-figs. They will also eat deer mice, birds, lizards, land snails and any garbage people leave out.

They communicate with each other through sight, sound and smell. They use their body postures and facial expressions to show dominance, and bark and growl at each other. They mark their territories by leaving a few drops of urine around the borders and leaving their scat in obvious places like trails. This tiny fox is described as being docile, playful and affectionate. When first approached by humans it will growl, but soon it tolerates the human and becomes curious. Not that you should try to pick one up, if you ever see one. That wouldn't be safe for you or the fox.

The island grey fox has been dying at an alarming rate during the last decade. The main causes were discovered to be diseases from domestic pets humans have brought to the islands, and the golden eagle. Because they have been isolated on the islands for thousands of years they haven't built up an immunity to the diseases and parasites brought over by animals from the mainland. Thousand of years of breeding within a small gene pool has also created a small genetic variation, which makes them susceptible to diseases. By 2000 there was a 95% decrease in the population on the northern three Channel Islands over a span of only four years. The National Park Service , which owns some of the islands, won't allow you to bring your dogs or cats into the Channel Island National Park.

Golden eagles are also a major threat to the island grey fox. These beautiful birds haven't always lived on the Channel Islands. They were attracted to the islands by the wild pig population and settled permanently around 1995 when the larger, fish-eating bald eagles died out in the area from DDT, hunting and egg collecting. Their arrival on San Miguel island that year coincided with the first decline in the island grey fox population. At that time there used to be about 450 grey foxes living there, but only 40 survive today. In 1999 the golden eagles began to nest on Santa Cruz and the population there went down from 2,000 in 1994 to only 60 today.

The island grey fox is protected by California state law, and is listed as threatened. In 1996 the IUCN listed Urocyon littoralis as Lower Risk/Conservation Dependent. This means that the island grey fox can't survive unless humans intervene on its behalf. Island grey foxes are dependent on captive breeding programs on San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz for their survival. They are bred in captivity and then taken to other areas to try to raise their population.

In 1999 the National Park Service together with The Nature Conservancy established an Island Fox Recovery Team to look into the problem of the population decline. They recommended that the following things be done:

• sanctuaries be built to protect the foxes from the golden eagle
• a captive breeding program be started
• the golden eagles on the northern islands be captured and relocated to a habitat on the mainland
• the bald eagle be restored to the islands to displace the golden eagle
• an effort be made to place the island grey fox on an endangered list.

The Park Service and The Nature Conservancy are also workin on restoring the natural ecosystem and elimination the feral pigs off Santa Cruz Island.

So far the Park Service has set up sanctuaries and captive breeding programs on San Miguel and Santa Rosa Island. Thirteen of the golden eagles have been captured from the Santa Cruz Island and relocated by the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group . Only a few golden eagles remain to be moved. By the year 2004 a dozen American bald eagles were released on Santa Cruz Island, and ten more bald eagles from Alaska will be joining them. On March 5, 2004, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the subspecies Santa Cruz Island Fox as endangered.

In the spring of 2004 the first two wild kits were born on Santa Rosa. Since the year 2000 no wild foxes had existed on the island. They join 9 other kits and 7 adults who were all raised in captivity.

The National Park Service needs our help to save the island grey fox. Their populations have declined so rapidly on all six Channel Islands that it needs help in raising funds for their recovery program. The National Park Foundation has set up an Island Fox Fund and hope to raise money and spread awareness about this critically endangered species

What happened to the island grey fox is a good lesson on how ecosystems and their inhabitant rely on each other. Change one element in the system and a species could become extinct. Until about 1995 the island grey fox had a strong population able to take care of itself. Then something happened to the bald eagle with which they had no contact. This created an opening for the golden eagle, which had avoided the larger bald eagle up till then. This changed everything for the island grey fox as they became easy prey for the golden eagle. Within 7 short years the island grey fox is teetering on extinction because one species was removed from their ecosystem.

Bibliography:

Images: http://www.nps.gov/chis/rm/IslandFox/Index.htm

Liu, S. 2002. "Urocyon littoralis" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed August 24, 2004 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Uroc yon_littoralis.html .

"Island grey fox (Urocyon littoralis)". http://www.canids.org/SPPACCTS/ulittoral.htm

"Lioncrusher's Domain -- Island Grey Fox Urocyon littoralis" (On-line) Accessed on August 24, 2004 at http://www.lioncrusher.com/animal.asp?animal=21

"Species Profile for Santa Cruz Fox" (on-line) accessed on 8/24/04 at http://ecos.fws.gov/species_profile/SpeciesProfile?spcode=A08L .

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