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Dog Powered Scooter (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by FireTower to c/dogs

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[–] TheDoozer 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I doubt this is a means of travel or existing for the owner's benefit. Some dogs just have more energy than their owner is capable of keeping up with, and they've been bred to have a high-energy job, so the best thing they can do is be given work to do, like pulling their human around.

It's that or walking them while they choke themselves out on a leash because their human is too slow, and destroy things in the house because they have no outlet.