Said It Here

Dog always lying in the middle of the hallway

Pets often act as speed bumps by lying directly in narrow, high-traffic pathways around the house. This forces owners to constantly navigate around or disturb them because the animal is always glued to their location with no choice.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    Finding another way around
  2. 2
    Stepping over them

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.

r/cats2 people · September 2026

“Our Quinn is the same way. We call him our speed bump.”source ↗

MomT-Rex · r/cats · 1 upvotes

“Like? I don't have a choice.bShe's always glued to me.”source ↗

Alpha_Killer666 · r/cats · 1 upvotes

Where this came up

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