Mar 31, 2012
Stair elevator for fat pets
Instead of putting your obese animal on a diet or keeping it on the first floor, you may soon be able to spend a few thousand dollars and get a stairlift designed just for your overweight pet…
From The Daily Mail…
The machine has been made with mutts in mind as it features a special ‘paw push’ start button situated close enough to the ground for the animal to reach with an outstretched leg.
Pets can clamber into the plastic basket which then raises several feet off the floor before carrying the four-legged passenger up the stairs.
Although it is still in the prototype phase, manufacturers hope the £5,000 doglift will be be taken on by a big company and developed for a growing market.
Growing market. Heh.
(via Archie McPhee)
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This is why the pet is fat :D
Fat pets and fat owners Ill bet.. They both need to get out and walk instead of spending money on this contraption.
I notice that the dog is a bulldog, which are prone to hip dysplasia. Perhaps instead of being negative and assuming the worst in people we could look at this as an invention that could help someone care for a much loved member of the family that may have a severe medical problem.
It’s a tool and a very useful one. Many people are aged and have aged pets that they can’t carry. Great tool to get them up and down the stairs. Of course, they should be a good weight and get walked, but life is not always that simple.
That bulldog isn’t overweight. That’s how bullies are built. We used to have one and stairs can be a problem for them.
Stairs are a problem for Dachshunds, Bulldogs, minis, and especially elderly dogs of the fore mentioned.
I think it has it’s place, if you’re old and so is your dog, you can’t lift the dog to bring it upstairs to bed, what are you supposed to do?
1) Stair lifts always me think of Gremlins (“Deagle, Deagle! Ahahaha!”
2) What is up (no pun intended, but duly noted) with those stairs? They’re so dang steep.
If the dog can jump two feet up into the basket, he can probably walk up the stairs…
They don’t jump into the basket, they walk in the basket and THEN the basket lifts.
I noticed how steep those stairs are too. I bet that ANY dog would have a hard time going DOWN those steps… Heck, I busted my arse coming down steep steps like that once cuz I didn’t turn my feet far enough sideways to fit on one w/o my heel getting caught! So I agree; I guess spinning the story with a little sarcastic humor was simply the author’s creative license at work. It sure made us all stop to read the article!
A chairlift says “we love you, but we don’t think you’ll be around long enough to justify moving.” I suppose a doggy chairlift is similar.
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