'Dog house with air conditioner' for dog comfortably overcomes hot summer appeared

by sarandy westfall

Dogs, one of the most popular pets in Japan, are generally said to be weak against heat, as the sweat glands for sweating are only a part of the meat balls. For dogs kept outdoors in such dogs, the sunshine like summer is a natural enemy, and if you do not take measures, it will be summer bathed like a human being. There is an air conditioned kennel in New York that can be said to be a heaven for such an outside dog.

She Had a Genius Idea: Air-Conditioned Doghouses. Then the City Showed Up. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/nyregion/brooklyn-dog-doghouse-air-conditioned.html

In Ardsley, New York there are two giant dog houses clean and white. This is a dog house "DogSpot" for people who came to the parking lot to keep dogs locked in the car on hot summer days, temporarily put the dog in the air conditioned cabin You can deposit it. The hut is made of coated aluminum instead of wood, and since the internet is connected, it is now possible to deposit dogs by payment of 30 cents a minute (about 33 yen) via the web. This eliminates the need to leave your dog in a hot car even if you have something to do in the "pet impossible" building.

Chelsea Brownridge, who owns terrier named Winston, invented DogSpot with air conditioner. There are many cafes banned from pets in New York, for example, even if you order coffee at a cafe and take out, you have to have your dog wait at home or in the car for at least 15 minutes. When I had such experiences, Mr. Brown Ridge said that he thought he thought, "Someone can take care of Winston as they need only 15 minutes." To solve this, "Brown Ridge We created DogSpot to set sanctuary in public places.

Brown Ridge founded Dog Parker as a company to license DogSpot for shops that do not allow pets. It seems that founding funds were procured from the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Brooklyn Public Library for promoting New York economic growth.

Official movies of DogSpot are as follows. I understand how to use it in one shot.

DogSpot Location Highlight - YouTube


I took a dog while I was out ... ...

This white box is DogSpot.

How to use is easy, open the lid ......

If you put a dog into it OK.

With this, you will be able to do shopping at your disposal even at "Pets not allowed" shops.

You can check the status of your dog in DogSpot from smartphone at any time. The temperature inside DogSpot is also displayed on the screen.

Once you've done business, if you have paid from your smartphone ......

The lid is pakari. It is a service that can be used when you can not keep dogs outside when summer is summer or heavy rainy.

When Brown Ridge tried to make prototype of DogSpot, city officials introduced Boyce Technologies , which develops the security unit Help Point Unit introduced to the subway. Thanks to that, development has proceeded smoothly, and from 2016 to 2017 successfully succeeded in setting up DogSpot in several "people who can not go to pets every day" such as food stores and food courts.

Dog Parker will grow until being invited to the Smart City Expo World Congress held in Barcelona, ​​Spain in 2017, but when Mr. Michael Bloomberg was the mayor of New York in the same conference, New York City Transportation Bureau Director Janet Saddick Khan who was active as a critic, "DogSpot occupies public roads and is a law violation". Following this, the New York City Transportation Bureau will send a document notifying Dog Parker of the suspension of the service, "We have not obtained permission to install DogSpot on the sidewalk."

Mr. Brown Ridge criticized the city's response that "this document did not mention any laws that we are in violation." After that, it seems that consultation with e-mail has been carried out for two months, but the document which notifies service stop will be sent again from the New York City Transportation Bureau which boiled the business. In the document, the city staff investigated that DogSpot was set up on over 30 sidewalks and it was said that it was written that DogSpot is installed in two or more public places.

In response to this, Dog Parker will proceed with plans to extend DogSpot on land other than New York. Also, in collaboration with the New York State-Thruway management group and food manufacturer HMSHost , we will place DogSpot in several 10 highways in New York by classifying it as "vending machine under contract with HMSHost" I also succeeded in that.

Also in New York, movement has been active to allow "pet harbors" for pets like DogSpot, and New York which was focusing on bills to approve pet evacuation centers Erika Turner, assistant council member of Rafael L. Espinal Jr., commented, "How does a pet's evacuation shelter differ from a coin-operated child ride on the shop?" It is.