Today I came across something which irritates me even more than prams taking up the wheelchair space on a bus, or people perfectly able to climb stairs using lifts: dogs in prams occupying the bus wheelchair space! Would you believe prams – or, rather, things that look like prams but are just boxes with wheels and a handle bar – are now being made specifically for small dogs, presumably so that their owners can pretend their pets are akin to human children. One or two times now, I’ve seen their owners push them onto busses and into the wheelchair space. While I can just about accept buggies for babies might sometimes need a bus wheelchair space, I have to say being prevented from travelling for the sake of a dog, as almost happened earlier today, would really really take the piss.