Woof! Lyft Launches Pet Rides to Celebrate National Dog Day

Happy National Dog Day! Lyft is celebrating the joyous juncture by yet announcing Pet Rides today, a heavy requested diagnostic that its competitor Uber has been offering connected its level for years.

With Pet Rides, riders with furry friends volition specifically beryllium matched with comfy drivers, with an further interest of $4 positive tax. Riders volition spot that further complaint erstwhile booking a ride, and akin to however a extremity works, the $4 surcharge volition beryllium afloat received by the operator without immoderate deductions from Lyft.

To publication a Pet Ride, you’ll request to prime that enactment from the thrust list, and the app volition lucifer you to a driver. Your favored indispensable beryllium wrong a carrier, connected a blanket, oregon astatine your feet. As a courtesy to different customers, it’s champion not to person your favored connected the seat. Pet rides are constricted to the US for now. They let a maximum of 4 radical and 1 carnal successful the car.

Lyft shares that the diagnostic has been often requested for a portion now, and it’s strategically launching it connected a time that makes sense. To observe National Dog Day, Lyft is besides encouraging favored adoption. It’s partnering with carnal shelters and rescue organizations and offers promo codes and discounts to those who follow a furry person from 1 of the participating shelters.

While the instauration of Pet rides is recent, Lyft has allowed riders to commute with service animals for a portion now. And you don’t request to publication a Pet Ride to bring a work animal. Lyft drivers tin opt retired of Pet Rides but are inactive required to prime up riders with work animals.

However, I’d inactive beryllium other cautious erstwhile bringing a favored into a ride-share situation, particularly aft the Tux the Cat situation a twelvemonth ago, wherever a Lyft operator sped disconnected with a rider’s cat. The rider’s pleas were ignored portion banging connected the car model and in-app messages. Lyft’s PR yet noticed erstwhile the concern blew up connected societal media, and media outlets began covering it. Eventually, Tux was recovered astir a mile distant from the drop-off point. The operator claimed he’s allergic to cats and wouldn’t person accepted the thrust had helium known he’d person to commute with one. This is wherefore having a abstracted tier for Pet Rides that lone includes consenting drivers is essential.