Elevator helps your overweight pooch get up the stairs  So your
dog is a bit overweight. Maybe so overweight that your best
friend can't get around without some assistance. Apparently,
this is really common, so much so that someone has designed a
stair elevator to carry your vertically challenged pet up and
down the stairs for you.  We're gonna skip right past the
obvious solutions of, say, feeding your dog less or taking your
dog on a walk once in a while to the design of this doggy
elevator. It's pretty self-explanatory, and will take your pooch
up the stairs and back down again as many times as his (or her)
little over-sized heart desires. The prototype has a start
button close to the ground so that Fido can get the elevator
going with a mere push of the paw, and the basket lowers so
there's little effort required to get in. Once your dog is
safely situated, the elevator lifts several feet off the ground
to move up the stairs.  Since it's predicted that more than half
of dogs in the UK will be overweight b