I’m obsessed with this startup dog prison

> It felt, fundamentally, like Dog Parker solved a problem that didn’t exist.

This is the point in the narrative where I immediately assume that the author does not own a dog.

> Full disclosure: I don’t have a dog.

Bingo.

> You might say my credibility here, now, is shot.

No, I said that at the beginning, because it was already clear then.

> But I do know a lot of people who have dogs. They love to talk about their dogs. They do it all the time. One thing I’ve never heard any of them say is I wish there was a locker into which I could insert my dog while I ran errands.

My eyes have just rolled out the back of my head and onto the sidewalk. This is literally a "but I have black/female/queer friends" moment.

> I also heard, “...You could argue that the dog jails are the least worst thing for a legitimate problem.”

And boom! There we have it. Dog owner has a problem that the author doesn't know about. Author thinks the problem doesn't exist. Dog owner tells author that the problem exists. Author continues to be an idiot anyway.

10 thumbs up to the founder for catching him on the safety cameras and responding graciously though. That takes way more class than I'd be able to muster when faced with a person who thinks that problems he doesn't personally face must not exist.

The alternatives, for those of us who enjoy taking our dogs places, is cracking the windows and leaving the dog in the car, leaving the A/C on for the dog (and risking someone breaking the windows), or just taking the dog inside and claiming therapy status.

I like the dog prison idea.