{"id":2636,"date":"2007-08-17T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/studies_find_that_outrage_increased_in_the_period_between_august_2005_and_august_2007.html"},"modified":"2007-08-17T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T18:28:39","slug":"studies_find_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/studies_find_th.html","title":{"rendered":"Studies Find That Outrage Increased In The Period Between August 2005 And August 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a Sunday Styles piece, it’s a convenient way to mollify fickle offspring<\/a>. In the hands of the New York Sun, it’s one of the most disturbing trends to hit our thoroughly debased culture<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For New Yorkers without the time, space, or willingness to commit to owning a dog, a new share program launching in Manhattan next month offers pets for rent.<\/p>\n

Singles who don’t own pets but want excuses to chat up dog lovers at city parks, for example, can break the ice with Jackpot, a midnight-black Labrador retriever billed as a “happy dog who loves everyone,” who can be a best friend for a month, a week, or an hour.
\nWhile researchers tout the positive impact of spending time with pets, the rent-a-dog program, FlexPetz, is seen as a “shocking” development by veterinarians, dog trainers, and longtime pet owners. Veterinarians say renting out dogs could inflict permanent damage to their psyches, as multiple owners could muddle their understanding of loyalty.<\/p>\n

“The whole point of having a dog is having a relationship,” a veterinarian and health director of the doggie day care center Biscuits & Bath, Deborah Sarfaty, said. “It’s not like wearing a piece of jewelry. Dogs get attached quickly and then it’s lifted away from them, which is cruel.”<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

FlexPetz members pay a monthly fee of $50, a “daily doggy time charge” of up to $40, and a yearly membership fee of $250. The dogs, most of which Ms. Cervantes and her team adopt from local shelters, are put through extensive training before they are sent into homes. Members also go through a rigorous screening process, Ms. Cervantes said. The dogs, most of which sleep at day care centers when they’re not working, can be delivered to a member’s home or office for $18 a trip.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a Sunday Styles piece, it’s a convenient way to mollify fickle offspring. In the hands of the New York Sun, it’s one of the most disturbing trends to hit our thoroughly debased culture: For New Yorkers without the time, space, or willingness to commit to owning a dog, a new share program launching in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thats_an_outrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}