This is a nice bag with an inner liner to store dog food in. Screwing the top on and off is very easy and the strap makes carrying the container easier than carrying a regular bag of dog food. We haven't gone through all of the food in the bag but the bag definitely "shrinks" as the amount of food goes down. It also does appear to be fairly air tight and I don't see how ants or other bugs/critters could get into the bag as long as the lid is on tightly.
The instructions say to hang this on a door handle (or something similar) to fill it, but I refuse to hang up to 30 lbs. on a door handle (unnecessary strain on the handle). So, I put it on the floor and slowly poured the food into the bag. I had to stop often to shake the food around and lift the sides to make more room, but it wasn't too horrible. Had my husband been home, I would have held the sides of the bag while he poured the food.
I gave this product four stars simply because it does not hold 30 lbs. of our dogs' current food (Science Diet Prescription Diet w/d). And when I say it will not fit, I put as much in as I could then shook and spun the bag to add more food to the point that I could barely screw the lid on. Additional shaking and spinning yielded no additional room. It *may* hold 30 lbs. of a different brand or possibly cat food, but not our food. Since we previously just left the food right in the original bag, we're now filling this container with as much food as will fit and leaving the rest in the original bag. We finish off the original bag then move to the food in this container.
Despite not holding 30 lbs. (again, of our current dog food), I do recommend this product as being convenient and easy to handle, move, etc.
UPDATE (July 23, 2008): We've emptied and filled this container a few times so I've experience emptying the bottom of the bag. Since the dog food does inevitably come with crumbs, emptying this container can be a little annoying. The food hides in the various creases of the inner liner so I end up picking the very last bits out by hand. I then turn the container inside out over the trash can to get the crumbs out. Since it gets emptied only once every few weeks I don't think it's a big deal. I still give it four stars.
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