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[[File:Dog walks man.jpg|thumb|400px|Even [[Barack Obama|the then-President of the United States]] is [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285210/No-IM-charge-President-Obama-finds-hes-taken-walk-dog.html subject to this trope].]]
{{quote|''Missis had a most winning expression. Pongo, though a dog born to command, had a twinkle in his eye. They walked side by side with great dignity, only putting the Dearlys on the leash to lead them over crossings.''|'''[[The Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''', Dodie Smith}}
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A variant is where they [[Crash Into Hello|collide with another person]]. This may even be a [[Meet Cute]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* This happens with Hana all the freaking time walking Yosev in ''[[GaoGaiGar]]''. Generally because she has the good sense to try to walk him right when the [[Monster of the Week]] is attacking, and also her dog is like three times her size.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The Blast-Ended Skrewts do this in ''[[
* In ''[[The Dresden Files|Dead Beat]]'', Mouse pulls Harry to see Murphy. If Harry "had leaned back and kept [his] legs straight [he] could have gone skiing over the gravel".
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Happens regularly in the U.S. ''[[Marmaduke]]'' comic strip. The title character is a Great Dane, who does this even to adults.
* From ''[[The Family Circus]]'', there is a line: "Wednesday's Child is full of woe" The picture is of Jeffy, being dragged along by one of the dogs saying, [[
* ''Katzenjammer Kids'' had Dur Captain get [https://www.comicskingdom.com/katzenjammer-kids/2020-05-31 a dog] "ta help me oxercise" on the doctor's advice, and it proved a bit too much of the exercise. And when he felt too lazy to beat rugs, a [https://www.comicskingdom.com/katzenjammer-kids/2020-05-10 self-propelled vacuum cleaner] towed him around the house.
== Software ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In maybe the only non-accidental case of this, Iggy Koopa in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' rides around in a basket dragged by a large Chain Chomp (Mario guard dog equivalent) firing magic blasts at Mario. When he's hit, the Chain Chomp literally [[Turns Red]], changes direction and charges, dragging the knocked out Iggy Koopa with it. Repeat scenario twice for one hell of an interesting boss battle.
* Baby Mario and Baby Luigi's vehicles in [[Mario Kart]] are also being pulled by a Chain Chomp, and every so often it goes careening forward without any semblance of control.
* Koromaru of ''[[Persona 3]]'' is implied to do this sometimes when taken for a walk by the main character and another member of SEES. The other character will occasionally make comments such as complaining that he's too fast or that trying to keep him up with him is great exercise, usually while panting for breath.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* A giant gerbil briefly does it to [[Narbonic|Helen Narbon]] upon [https://web.archive.org/web/20071012143834/http://www.webcomicsnation.com/memberimages/080600.jpg the woman's first appearance].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Happens in the ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** To be fair, a house cat has no hope of ever being able to drag a human along involuntarily. It's more a case of the cat instinctively trying to go the opposite way of the owner. The end result is that the cat is dragged along against its will. Note that this isn't particularly nice to the cat, and this should never be done with actual kittens (baby cats) as they have been known to literally stress themselves to death in situations like these. At least that's what this troper was told when he got cats.
*** The right way to walk a cat is to go anywhere it wants to and keep the leash from tangling with objects, except when it tries to go too far or to somewhere dangerous, in which case you gently stop it from going further. It's best to do somewhere with lot of open space, rather than on a clear path, since cats rarely are satisfied just with following a straight line.
** Not unheard of with dogs either, for that matter. Walking a dog that's not familiar with
** Not only is this embarrassing for the owner, the extreme leash-pulling is [[Exaggerated Trope|INCREDIBLY]] dangerous and shows lack of training. It is especially hazardous in the case of large dogs, which are quite capable of pulling full-sized adult humans off their feet.
* Riding a horse subjects the rider to an extreme version of this if they don't know how to control it properly.
* [[C. S.
* An incident involving then-President [[Barack Obama]] having trouble controlling his dog Bo in 2010 was caught by photographers and reported as a "fluff" piece by various news outlets... from which we get our page's image.
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