How to get a puppy home without a car
Bringing a puppy home on public transit like the tube or train exposes them to loud and overwhelming environments without a personal vehicle. This makes it difficult to manage the stressful journey safely while handling potential accidents.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1looking into drivers
- 2taking a solid carrier lined with puppy pads
- 3bringing an extra blanket and harness or lead
- 4choosing quieter and smoother tube lines
- 5DIY modifying a used kid stroller with a detachable fabric sling and strapping the folded frame to a hiking pack
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m planning to get a west highland terrier puppy soon and have done a lot of research but one thing I’m stuck on is how to bring the puppy home.”source ↗
“I can’t drive so will have to bring her home on the tube/train but it’ll be loud and overwheliming for a puppy.”source ↗
Where this came up
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