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The Poochmobile, a bizarre yet earnest experiment in alternative transportation, was built in 1939 by 80-year-old Z. Wiggs, a dog trainer and former railroad worker from Denton, Texas.

The contraption featured a large central “squirrel-cage” wheel powered by a single dog walking inside it, transmitting motion via a belt-and-pulley system to the rear wheels.

Wiggs envisioned it as a fuel-free solution to modern transport—a Depression-era glimpse at “green” mobility. Despite its ingenuity, the Poochmobile was widely viewed as charmingly impractical and never made it past the prototype stage.

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https://dentonlibrary.wordpress.com/2018/07/21/z-wiggs-reinvents-the-wheel/

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That seems a bit much for a dog, but I have seen lightweight “doggy chariots” that harness two dogs. I suspect that my husky would love it, and the malinois would just be happy to be running. Admittedly, the two of them weigh about 160 lbs, so that’s a fair amount of dog.

      I don’t know where the heck I would get a full legionaries weapon set.