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Build Your Own Dog Wagon

Posted by michael on from the mush dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Philip Greenspun isn't the only Web-site innovator with an interest in dogs, airplanes, photography, and travel. While Kyler Laird appears to operate on a budget that's a couple of orders of magnitude lower, his description of adventures in dog-cart development exhibit the same virtues of technical specificity and lucidity."

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  1. But what about.... by CmdrMooCow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hrm.

    Yeah, all those dogs in a RAID array... sure to run fast.

    Or reliable.

    Or some combination thereof.

    1. Re: But what about.... by secolactico · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wouldn't that be a "Beowoof" cluster?

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  2. I started thinking about these things 25 years ago by kfg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was sitting on my front porch and a guy went by "walking" his dog by letting it pull him along on his bicycle. The little lightbulb thingy went off in my head (Ow! Stop it.)

    Since that time I've "designed" several variants, also in my head, but I ran into a slight problem on approaching the development phase.

    I don't particularly care for dogs.

    My cats don't particularly care for the idea of being hitched up to a cart either.

    And thus technology is set back decades by the peculiarities of a single man.

    Oh, yeah, you can also already buy one commercially, so it's not like it's really a novel idea (mushers use them to keep their dogs in shape during the summer season. My idea is to make an ultralight one specifically tuned for running in the modern urban enviroment. Carbon fiber, racing bicycle wheels, that sort of thing).

    Here's an example:

    Dog Cart

    KFG

  3. Good grief by Kohath · · Score: 5, Funny

    You don't need a wagon when your dog is a World War I flyng ace.