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From: kolling@decwrl.UUCP (Karen Kolling)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: easy open food bags, and litter bags
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 18:56:22 EDT
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>    I wonder if anybody has the same problem with those
>    "easy-open" pet food bags for dogs or cats as I do. You know
>    the kind, with the string stitched across the top. Every once
>    in a while I get it started ok and it zips right across, but
>    this is the exception rather than the rule.

I don't know about the food bags, but as far as the bags of litter
go, it depends on which side you start from.  If you can't get the
string to loosen in about 1 second, try from the other side and it works.
At least, this is true of Safeway litter bags.