so cute the way the helmets match is so adorable

I think it is a cute picture.

I ride with my dog in my lap all the time, she loves it and I don’t see the harm in it.

I think some of you need to start living by the old addage “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”

THANK YOU, Sabrina! Those of us who are concerned over the uber cute puppeh’s welfare can tell ourselves, well, of COURSE he’s strapped in via one of these AWESOME devices?? I mean, WHY would someone think a dog owner wouldn’t properly secure his adorable puppeh!

Seriously. I’d already decided to supply my own back story to the photo, and your post made it that much easier!

Oh…and all you self-righteous anti-nuffs? Pffffft!! It’s one thing to imagine danger where none is apparent (i.e., Pablo and Ramsey video), but quite another to look at a picture and cringe at the impending danger. A good pet owner is a careful pet owner.

Scooter ‘tocks!

Ah, but what none of you realize is that this is actually a dog-powered bike. The pup is actually the one staging this photo. He sent it to his friends with a note that said, “Check it out! It totally looks like my human is driving the bike in this picture. Ha ha!”

circuscake,
On the flip side, I’m one of those people who can’t just focus on the cute when I see something that troubles me. It’s not a question of the dog being cute–of course the chi in a helmet is freakin’ adorable! But an image like this makes me think of bad dog owners, and makes me visualize squished dog on the road (I’m not saying this guy is a bad dog owner–I’m just saying it makes me wonder). When I come to this site, I’m hoping for straight-up cute with no foreshadowing of road kill. Anti-nuffs: Before you jump down my throat, please note that I’ve said “hoping” not “insisting.”

i think the reason some folks don’t wanna hear the ‘concerns’ is because they come here to escape the negative things in their lives, and to have one brief moment of pure joy in la-la land.

they can look at a picture and admire the cute while ignoring anything that might be disturbing- not because they don’t care, but because they don’t know the back story and they are willing to live in the moment of cute- expecting nothing more and nothing less.

now let’s all hold hands and sing kumbaya.

I love how you can see his tongue sticking out in a big goofy doggy grin in the second picture. He looks so happy!

I imagine if the speed was low and the guy took corners careful the dog could balance and stay on even without a harness. He’s not on a highway or anything, after all. But I’d be waaaay too scared to try, personally. (that and I don’t own a dog or a motorcycle, though I do bum rides off someone who does) Guess that man really trusts his pooch or knows something we don’t.

all I was trying to say is that I can’t make an assumption from the picture and that I just take a picture at face value as one moment in time. I can or cannot say whether this pet owner has safe practices with the puppeh and will probably never know being he apparently is in Asia.

I agree with Metaskins. If the man bought the little puppers a matching helmet, I am sure he has found a way to secure the puppeh.