A new trend is taking shape in NYC, and as many things do, it has me confused and maybe even a little bit angry. People are puchasing customized strollers for their dogs. I understand wanting to give your pet a good life, but this seems misguided to me.
Dogs are pack animals by nature. They love to explore. Walking is not a chore to them like it may be to us. It’s what they do.
Dogs choose to drink out of the toilet, intentionally shove their noses into stinky places, they hate bathing. I’m pretty certain that what we may see as them choosing to sit in a stroller is just us humans applying our needs to them, and them complying.
It isn’t enough that we save them a spot at the bottom of the bed, wrap our restaurant leftovers for them as a late-night snack, or wake up early to follow them around in the rain with a pooper-scooper, but today some pampered pooches now need wheels.
“It is unbelievable how many people stop me and think I am pushing a baby,” said Annie Carnes, who strollers “Shadow,” her Toy Yorkie, around Bay Ridge in her customized puppy stroller.
“People stop me every five minutes — sometimes they even stop their car and get out to look for themselves at my dog stroller.”
Carnes, who paid $200 for the stroller, wasn’t planning on purchasing the canine cruiser until Shadow jumped into a display model at Posh Pets at 9540 Fourth Ave., and has barely jumped out since.
One dog enthusiast believes that there is a fine line between man’s best friend and man’s master.
“What’s next? Are we going to be buying dog toilet paper?” asked Ridge resident Andrew Dula, who was walking his Golden Retriever, Gunther, along Shore Road. “The day you find me pushing my dog in a stroller is the day he becomes my master.”
Dutifully, however, Dula later picked up Gunther’s poop.
via The Brooklyn Paper via Fark