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Article: Dog gone scootering.(Recreation)(Invention makes it easy to harness the energy of 'Man's Best Friend')
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2004
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Byline: Mike Stahlberg The Register-Guard
Mark Schuette didn't even own a dog at the time, but the need for a better way for people to exercise their dogs almost reached out and bit him as he moved around his hometown of Bend.
"I saw people on their bicycles with their dog on a leash pulling them - or on skateboards or roller blades. I saw women pushing babies in three-wheeled strollers and they'd also have a dog with them and the dog's not doing anything, except trotting along and maybe getting tangled up every once in a while.
"Everybody is trying to get their dogs to help pull," Schuette said. "I knew there was a better way,"
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