On Friday, April 8, 2022 at 1:04:29 AM UTC+8, David P. wrote:
> Who Let The Dogs Out? Not Shanghai’s Covid Cops
> By Natasha Khan and Liyan Qi, April 4, 2022, WSJ
>
> That all changed last week, when Wu Qianyu, an official
> with the Shanghai municipal health commission told citizens,
> in effect, that the quarantine rules apply equally to man and
> man’s best friend alike. That meant no setting foot outside
> apartment units, including corridors and parking lots—not for
> throwing out the garbage, not for jogging and not for walking pets.
>
> As the implications of the dog lockdown became clear, pet owners
> spent their final hours of freedom stocking up on extra dog food
> and chew toys. Others collected leaves, dug up mulch and ordered
> patches of grass to set up “outdoor areas” in their homes..
>
> The founder of a local pet training academy held a live-streamed
> lesson on his social-media account to help owners train their dogs
> to get comfortable doing their business indoors. A Shanghai-based
> pet-sitting startup, Spare Leash, organized a virtual “doga”—that’s
> dog yoga—class for pets and their owners.
>
> One local vet, invited onto a local radio station to dispense
> advice to dog owners, counseled buying pet diapers and emphasized
> the importance of offering more emotional support to their animals.
>
> Some have struggled to adapt. One video widely circulated among
> Shanghai dog owners showed a small white dog being lowered from
> an apartment block onto the grass below by a very long leash
> before doing its business.
>
> Robert Gatti, an American expatriate in Shanghai, bought two big
> bags of fresh sod from a grass dealer, which he laid out in a few
> squares on his balcony. He then added some leaves he picked by hand
> from bushes outside his building for a pop of color and detail to
> recreate a park scene for his Shanghai rescue dog Xixi. “My dog is
> from the streets,” Gatti said. “I think she can manage this.”
>
> Heather Kaye, a NYC native who has lived in Shanghai for 16 years,
> isn’t so sure about Ruthie, her 4-year-old mutt mix, who is used to
> walking about 3 miles each day.
>
> Kaye, a fashion designer who's hunkering down with her husband and
> two adolescent daughters, had a roughly 10-sq-ft patch of grass
> delivered a day before the lockdown.
>
> Ruthie just stared at it, baffled. Rather than try to teach her
> old dog new tricks, Kaye called a municipal govt hotline to leave
> messages pleading for more attention to dogs and their owners. The
> family has decided it’s time to move back home.
>
> “I really get why [the govt] did what they did for Delta but this
> is a totally different game now,” said Kaye, who described her move
> as motivated both by personal reasons and the Covid restrictions.
> “We love Shanghai but we cannot do this anymore. It’s too much.”
>
> Kaye’s business partner, Indian expatriate Itee Soni, had spent
> recent weeks bringing her small dog Robyn, a 3-year-old terrier,
> almost everywhere she went, including the office and the grocery
> stores, in case she was caught in one of China’s periodic snap
> lockdowns, which have trapped unwitting people in shopping malls
> and office towers for hours and even days after an infection or
> close contact was identified there.
>
> Soni, who recalls earlier lockdowns in which dog-walking was
> permitted, said she tried to give Robyn a crash course in potty
> training as the lockdown approached. But delaying Robyn’s daily
> walks only seemed to stress her out, without the desired effect.
>
> After preparing a “go bag” for Robyn filled with treats and
> lotion, then making arrangements to have Robyn stay with Kaye,
> Soni changed her mind the day before the lockdown began, rushing
> Robyn to a pet hotel a half-hour’s drive outside the city, fearing
> that she might test positive for Covid and be taken away by health
> officials, leaving Robyn home alone for an indefinite amount of time.
>
> “I’ve used up all my bandwidth thinking about Robyn’s safety,” Soni
> said. “This round of outbreak and lockdown really broke me a little.”
>
> Kedl, the longtime American expatriate who dug up the familiar soil
> for his dogs Xiaoxiao and Lala, has found it harder going than he
> had expected.
>
> On the first day of lockdown, the dogs seemed not to notice having
> missed their morning walk, but when the afternoon walk time came
> without any signs of motion, Kedl said, “their eyes started crossing
> and they were getting a little nervous.”
>
> So Kedl, following the advice of one member of his Shanghai dog
> owners’ chat group, cordoned off the section of the balcony where
> he had set up the patch of grass, sprinkled with the soil he had
> scooped up, hoping to cultivate a sense of mystery around the faux-
> outdoor area.
>
> Then, in line with the instructions he had read, when it was time
> for a walk, Kedl dutifully leashed up his two dogs, walked them
> the 10 steps to the secret “outdoor” area and just waited..
>
> But rather than get on with it, Kedl’s two dogs sat down on the
> grass, blinking bemusedly at him. “They were questioning my sanity,”
> Kedl said. “And I’m not disagreeing.”
>
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-let-the-dogs-out-not-shanghais-covid-cops-11649018759

Quarantined people at home will have to face the same problem with their dog in quarantine at home too . It is not so hard on the people when they not taken a walk for which they can walk at home too. But it is hard on the dog for not having a walk at all at all day long. Dog gets upset and frustrated when their time for walks is not met. They don't understand why their owner did not bring them out for walk. They will growl. The same goes to young children, too. Many children who cannot attend wondered why they were stopped going to school and they missed their friends at school everyday. But children can understand things when explained to them, but not dogs.

Hence to solve the dog, they need to be innovative change of way of dog walking which can be done at home too. One way is to have dog owners to crowd ideas on how thread mill for dog should be made. With automatic and 5G internet technology already available, the thread mill can be produced and sold to dog owners who can automate the thread mill and also guide the dog safely to the thread mill and can monitor them though 5G mobile phone network in already available in China. If more innovative ideas are introduced to the thread mill machine or other forms of walking machines, dog will be happy to exercise at home too.