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Dog Powered Scooter (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by FireTower to c/dogs

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

I had dog that the only way she could function (not got crazy) is if I let her pull me on a skateboard (downhill Longboard) at top speed around our block (.25 mile circle around the top of a hill). She'd pull me at full speed (22 mph per my Garmin GPS) for about half a mile, a fast run for about another quarter mile and finished at a trot for another quarter or so. I weighed about 250 pounds at the time. She was crazy. I had to give her to my handyman who lived on acreage in the middle of nowhere so she could roam free.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Dogs absolutely love pulling stuff and I bet that dog is having a blast.

[–] saltesc 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My Laphund hauls me on a longboard. He gets into a really good long-distance pace while I also assist with kick pushes uphill or on slow surfaces.

Bungee leash, bit of mushing wax on the paw pads, great way to cover the 10km lake circuit. The breed loves pulling for starters, but I think he loves the freedom of running around in "the wild" and covering such distance. He does big hikes too, but obviously only gets to go walking pace, so the "mushing" lets him cut loose.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I need to get some knee and elbow pads so I can have my husky pull me on my rollerblades. 🤔

[+] [email protected] -18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This seems really human lazy. But fuck if you feed that dog right they'd be swol af. That being said I don't like the idea of people owning dogs just as a means of travel. Humans would just abuse the fuck out of them.

[–] 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.

[–] FireTower 4 points 5 months ago

It'd be much cheaper and easier to buy an electric scooter. Even if you've already got the dog.

I think it's more of just one of the fun things you'd do w/ your pup.