[Dailydrool] A magnificent, reasonably affordable basset hound carriage

[Val Brewer]

Aloha. For Christmas, Bo and I received a wonderful basset hound stroller.

I had written to the Drool awhile back soliciting advice about wagons and carts 
and carriages for bassets who refused to walk very far (due to old age, back 
problems, laziness, or general bassetude). I had summarized my findings, which 
are in the archives somewhere. We settled on a garden cart from Lowes, but I 
soon discovered that I couldn't navigate down hills with it (think of the luge 
event in the Olympics), nor would Bo stay in it without being strapped down, 
moaning piteously. So the garden cart joined the garden tools and our problem 
remained. We had looked at jogging strollers and pet strollers, but they were 
either too small or too expensive or both.

BUT--my husband found one that works great--carries weights up to 115 pounds; 
pushes like a stroller; and was actually not as expensive as the garden cart 
from Lowes. It is a lightweight aluminum framed, nylon and mesh-sided affair 
with three wheels and a handle. It can be used either as a stroller or a bike 
trailer. And it allegedly folds to fit in the car (we haven't tried this yet). 
Bo was not afraid, since he could see out the mesh on all sides. The cost is 
$140 plus shipping and it comes from a place in Wisconsin. Here is the web 
address--I'm afraid I may have just gotten a few of those pesky ?s in the 
address because of a typo so I'm starting again-- 
http://www.discountramps.com/dog-bike-trailer.htm If that address doesn't get 
you to thje page, the company is Discount Ramps.com Their phone number is 
1-888-651-3431 or, outside of the USA, 262-338-3431 I'm really pleased. (I don't 
have any affiliation with this company). I just thought this might be useful to 
a lot of other Droolers too. I can handle both of my bassets--Harley 
athletically trotting next to the stroller and Bo inside. Woo hoo. Val


      
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