Dogcart

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A dogcart is:

• normally, a cart (light wheeled vehicle):
  • either an open, often horse-drawn cart designed to carry hunting dogs in a cage between two cross-seats back to back; the dogs could be penned between the rear-facing seat and the back end. Frequent references to dogcarts are made by Sir. A. C. Doyle in his writings about fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
  • or a cart with light loads, pulled by one or more dogs; dog carts pulled by a single dog were sometimes used by peddlers; dog carts pulled by 2 or more dogs were historically used in Belgium and The Netherlands for delivering milk (Historical Dog Carts). Dog-drawn carts were prohibited in Britain in the early 1900s on animal welfare grounds, but some still exist (mainly for reasons of novelty) in France and Belgium for delivering churns of milk from small farms to the dairy. Compare dog sled (pulled by a team).
• the automobile model CGA Dogcart