I was dri­ving to work a cou­ple of days ago when I spot­ted these women car­ry­ing dogs on their bikes. I was amazed that the woman in front could carry three good-sized canines on a sin­gle bicy­cle. That is, until I passed her and saw that she was actu­ally car­ry­ing four dogs.

This of course raises all sorts of ques­tions. How do you train four dogs to calmly sit in wire bas­kets on your bicy­cle? Does she actu­ally ride with the dogs, or is the bicy­cle sim­ply eas­ier to man­age than a quadru­ple dog­gie stroller? Do the dogs leap into and out of the bas­kets them­selves, or does the woman have to man­u­ally install her canine bal­last? Per­haps the most impor­tant bit of infor­ma­tion — which dog gets to ride in the place of promi­nence on the han­dle­bars? Do they rotate? Is the sole for­ward pas­sen­ger sim­ply the eldest? Was it the best behaved on that par­tic­u­lar day? Or per­haps it’s the orig­i­nal, and the three in the back are all clones. And what about the poor dog stuck on the sec­ond bike all by itself?
Update: Thanks to Les­ley and her dad John for iden­ti­fy­ing the dogs as shel­ties. I guessed col­lies, but what do I know?