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Don't mind dogs with mobility issues going out in prams.
Anyone who dresses a dog in an outfit should be thrown into some sort of arena where they test whether an XL Bully is vicious or not.
"Glucosamine (Synoquin) tablets sorted him out "
Our first Lab had a little shoulder problem from early on. Never stopped him running around like a loon. But as he got older he would be uncomfortable in the evenings after charging around too much (just like blokes in their 50s and 60s go play football like they think they are still 23... then pay for it in the evening). Synoquin worked wonders for him.
Never in a pram though!
@blokeuptheroad no problem and no offence taken. There are probably lots of dogs being wheeled about unnecessarily but I always want to show the other side of the coin.
@anagallis_arvensis With compassion like that you've really missed your calling if you're not already a doctor. Such bedside manner.
Have you considered minding your own business, OP?
Oof, touched a nerve. Dog in pram owner there?
Dog in pram owner there?
Nah, cat owner.
Prams, nah. Rucks yeah*.
Free Phys innit. 
*Little buggers flat out refused to walk so had to carry them home.
Wait till you see Taylor Swift's back pack for her cat 😆
Most excellent 👌
I’m in Leeds, outside Laynes by the station…
…just seen a CAT in a pink pram.
I saw a woman a few weeks back with a cat tucked inside her jumper.
That was Leeds central station too, now I come to think about it.
Prams, nah. Rucks yeah*.
Dogs are the least of your worries there. Are you just home from Desert Storm or are you planning for an eventuality we need to know about? 😁
Anyone caught doing this kind of nonsense should have the dogs taken away from them by the RSPCA, banned from keeping dogs and have their hard drives checked.
Amazed it took an hour from OP for this to appear!
Saw a woman a few months back walking her dog, nothing strange about that until you notice the dog had a little red boot on each paw 😯
That's acceptable.
Hard ground, and tarmac especially gets ridiculously hot in the sun. It's very easy to burn a dogs paws on a walk, it doesn't even need to be a hot day, just bright sunlight.
My neighbours have a lot of dachshunds. Hard to know how may but we estimate around 12 at the moment. They bark. a lot. Sometime they start barking in the garden at 5.30am. My neighbours are not popular in the street.
Our neighbors have 1 (and a French bulldog for the un-dynamic duo of inbreding issues). And it's one too many. Everyone within earshot wishes it a quick and painless death.
Just crossing my fingers that when the landlord dies* they sell the house, but not to the current tenants!
*he's a lovely guy that lived there until his wife died and he went into managed accommodation, they had the sort of garden that people stopped and took pictures of, now it's a mess, dog shit everywhere, the roses are mostly dead and the detritus of umpteen side-hustles.
I also have compassion in spades, it also runs to poor dogs bred to live a life in pain for the delight of their owners
Perhaps worthy of a separate thread. My daughter is a vet and gets very angry about this. Brachycephalic breeds in particular which suffer from breathing difficulties or eye problems. Chosen because to some they look "cute", perpetuating that suffering.
I hadn't realised, but Google suggests up to 25% of dachshunds suffer from genetic back problems.
I'm sure there are genuine reasons, but i've noticed a lot more dogs in prams lately too. In fact on our local high street, I'd say over the last year any given pram is now more likely to have a dog than a human inside. It's quite odd, and must be fashion driven for the most part, unless dogs have suddenly got an awful lot sicker recently.
There's a lovely dog that wanders around one of my local parks, Bob is his name.
His back legs don't work properly so he has a wheeled harness type thing so he can pull himself along - complete with a little number plate with his name on 😀 He gets loads of attention!
I guess he'd be an ideal candidate for a pram but seems more than happy with life on 2 legs and 2 wheels.
^^ Lovely! What tyres for two wheeled pooch harnesses in your local park?
Definitely off-road ones as he likes to run on the grass 😃
Had this in the bluebird cafe in conniston last week, dog in pram sat at the table , so big i could not sit behind it at the other table so i had to sit on the end of the table...a dog sat at the table...my gastor was suitably flabbered
There’s a lovely dog that wanders around one of my local parks, Bob is his name.
His back legs don’t work properly so he has a wheeled harness type thing so he can pull himself along – complete with a little number plate with his name on 😀 He gets loads of attention!
I guess he’d be an ideal candidate for a pram but seems more than happy with life on 2 legs and 2 wheels.
If TJ kicks it. Is he kicking a dog or a bicyclist?
A lady I lodged with years ago (a dog walker, and dog owner) went into a very boutique bike shop (think Parlee, Lightweight, Colnago, etc) and asked "where are your dog trailers please?" and told me she surprised when they looked entirely blankly back at her. Still makes me laugh!
Part of the dog buggy issue is people turning their dogs into people, which they aren't - see also:
Dogs in onsies
Dogs with disabled badges - yes, I actually saw this
Dogs with dyed hair
Thankfully, most owners aren't this^ daft or weird. Nice that infirm doggos can get out and about at least!
Have you considered minding your own business, OP?
Since you are telling someone to mind their own business, I can only conclude that you have a young healthy dog which you transport places in a pram.
Otherwise, what OP chooses to post about is (brace yourself for irony) none of your business.
Have you considered minding your own business, OP?....
Clearly you have not...
🤣🤣
I despair, didn't know this was a thing.
Never seen a dog pram in the highlands. I suspect dogs get run over by tractors in farm yards up here before immobility becomes an issue.
I have sympathy for folk who have an otherwise happy content dog with mobility issues doing this, but the implication of the above posts and links is that people have found a new way to over humanise their dogs - probably reducing the quality of an able dogs life.
So sad - lets roll up the carpet on western civilization and start again.
Surely lap dogs have existed all the time their have been ladies that want one.
Going back to cruel dogs our friends have a rescue french bulldog. I love dogs but very wary of this thing. You can't tell what it's thinking. No tail to wag and no facial expressions.
Sounds like Bike Vs Bike argument.
Dog ownership is a strange thing, i also read a sign in a cafe in richmond that i never thought id see.
It read,
Dear customers,
Please do not put our chair cushions on the ground for your dog to lie on...
Please do not put our chair cushions on the ground for your dog to lie on…
As a certified mad doggist I find the level of entitlement which lead to this sign even being needed absolutely bonkers.
If I'm going somewhere that my hound will need to lay down, it's on me to take an appropriately padded thing for him to lie down on.
Made a mess of quoting so I'll just add this separately.
I am already working on a design/looking for a trolley to put my greyhound in. Hes still quite spritely now but injuries and mistreatment from his time in the racing industry have left him getting quite bad arthritis. He it still happy in himself and really enjoys a good sniffari but the walk to and from the interesting spots will likely get too much for him in the next 12 to 18 months. So I'll take him on a trolley (he's way to big for a pram) and then he can put all his energy into the fun stuff and not have to deal with the boring pavement stuff.
If I can make it workable with my bike, even better.
Please do not put our chair cushions on the ground for your dog to lie on…
Not defending this weird behavior, but humans have a strange hierarchy of cleanliness. We're societally quite happy to accept that I'm sat on a cushion, farting away last nights biryani in sweaty lycra after a few brisk laps of the park. But the line's drawn at the dog.
Saw some dude cycling uphill with a Jack Russel sized thing in a dog specific back pack. Saw him riding down later and the dog was chasing him.
I was a bit jealous.
The number of Doggy Babboe bikes in Munich exploded after the city started subsidising cargo bikes.
Oddly, on the application you had to give a reason why you would benefit from having a cargo bike. Taking kids to school, transporting tools etc I can see, but taking my dog for a walk?
Even see couples, each with a Doggy Babboe with a dog up front. That's up to 2000€ taken from taxpayers to transport a dog. FFS.
I think it's a trap for election season, you put a dog in a pram and go and find the nearest tory or reform candidate, they think they have an opportunity for a quick kiss on a baby's head in front of the cameras, but instead they become a meme running around screaming with a jack russel firmly clamped onto their faces.
Slightly OT, many moons ago I was walking my dog through Tenby on a nice sunny day. I noticed that people walking towards me were looking down at the doggy and smirking. One guy cracked up laughing. What's going on I thought, reigned the dog back and had look at her..... she'd picked up a baby's dummy.
My neighbours have a lot of dachshunds. Hard to know how may but we estimate around 12 at the moment. They bark. a lot. Sometime they start barking in the garden at 5.30am. My neighbours are not popular in the street.
There are 5 (yes *five*) breeders within a 10 minute walk of me. Which is amazing as there are only about 60 houses within 10 minutes walk...
King Charles, Red Setter, Bearded Collie, Pyrenean Sheepdog and some massive bushy black dog breed.
(We've got Huskies and Irish wolfhounds about 10 minutes away).
So i feel your 5:30 am pain. Thankfully not too many yappy, earpiercing dogs.
As a kid we often put football kit on the dog for a garden kick around. You need shorts with a fly so you can put the tail through it.
Rover's kit by any chance?
Even see couples, each with a Doggy Babboe with a dog up front. That’s up to 2000€ taken from taxpayers to transport a dog. FFS.
Depends how you look at the subsidy.
How much does it cost them to provide a parking space at the dog park over ~5 years, expand the road infrastructure for ever increasing numbers of cars, health and social care impacts on sedentary lives and polution, etc.
Especially as in the UK car taxes all go to central government, but the infrastructure costs are borne by local government.
Getting political for a moment it's one of the reasons Reading Council likes bus lanes. It owns the bus company so when it's looking to invest money it actually sees a payback on that investment when it's invested in lowering car dependence, whereas the car infrastructure just costs it money. The fact that people are idiots and still drive is unfortunate though.
Dogs are the least of your worries there. Are you just home from Desert Storm or are you planning for an eventuality we need to know about? 😁
I don't follow, that's just working dress, although slightly faded.
I was in a static ops job at that time, so I had a chat with the big boss about wanting to foster and if bringing the hounds into work would be okay.
It was, had a stream of them over the next two years. Huge stress reliever having puppies roaming around the ops/int cell I can tell you.
Not so much when they took a piss on the floor though. Rug doctor got some use for sure. 😂
But to the op, short of medical reasons, it's ****ing daft. I wish people wouldn't do it and let their dog be a (well-behaved) dog.
Like this:
RM, I think I've said before on here I'm 'greyhound curious'. We've been dogless for a year and are planning to actively start looking at another this autumn. My wife used to volunteer for the Cinnamon Trust and walked a lovely 'lurcher' bitch (90% Greyhound) for an elderly lady for a couple of years. We were both smitten. We are looking at lots of other options but a greyhound or scruffy lurcher is high on the list.
My little mate, 13 year old whippet with arthritis and chronic kidney disease. Happy around the house and pottering in the garden but couldn't manage anything too long. This was on a family outing up the Malverns with other younger dogs a month or so before we had to take him to the vets.
We borrowed the buggy from a friend who used it for their Alsatian when it was recovering from an injury.
We’re societally quite happy to accept that I’m sat on a cushion, farting away last nights biryani in sweaty lycra after a few brisk laps of the park. But the line’s drawn at the dog.
Yeah, I'm not sure that many people think that's acceptable behaviour from the cyclist anywhere outside their own home. 😀
Yeah, I’m not sure that many people think that’s acceptable behaviour from the cyclist anywhere outside their own home. 😀
Could stand next to the table I suppose. But that might put people off their sausage rolls.
Many years ago I saw a wheelbarrow used for a disabled dog. It's front end worked so sometimes it would be half in, trotting away with the front paws. Smallish wheelbarrow largish dog. Looked to be enjoying life.
I have also seen a CAT in a rucksack. The rucksack had a window with a hole in it which was big enough for the cat to squeeze through, but it seemed happy enough sitting there.