diff --git a/proxy/create_container_interceptor.go b/proxy/create_container_interceptor.go
index cf7e0f22..e12d5fa4 100644
--- a/proxy/create_container_interceptor.go
+++ b/proxy/create_container_interceptor.go
@@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ type createContainerRequestBody struct {
 	MacAddress string             `json:"MacAddress,omitempty" yaml:"MacAddress,omitempty"`
 }
 
+// Replacement for docker.NoSuchImage, which does not contain the
+// image name, which in turn breaks docker clients post 1.7.0 since
+// they expect the image name to be present in errors.
+type ErrNoSuchImage struct {
+	Name string
+}
+
+func (err *ErrNoSuchImage) Error() string {
+	return "No such image: " + err.Name
+}
+
 func (i *createContainerInterceptor) InterceptRequest(r *http.Request) error {
 	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(r.Body)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -63,7 +74,9 @@ func (i *createContainerInterceptor) InterceptRequest(r *http.Request) error {
 func (i *createContainerInterceptor) setWeaveWaitEntrypoint(container *docker.Config) error {
 	if len(container.Entrypoint) == 0 {
 		image, err := i.proxy.client.InspectImage(container.Image)
-		if err != nil {
+		if err == docker.ErrNoSuchImage {
+			return &ErrNoSuchImage{container.Image}
+		} else if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 
diff --git a/proxy/proxy_intercept.go b/proxy/proxy_intercept.go
index 080872f4..69f83c83 100644
--- a/proxy/proxy_intercept.go
+++ b/proxy/proxy_intercept.go
@@ -16,11 +16,10 @@ import (
 
 func (proxy *Proxy) Intercept(i interceptor, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	if err := i.InterceptRequest(r); err != nil {
-		_, isNoSuchContainer := err.(*docker.NoSuchContainer)
-		switch {
-		case isNoSuchContainer:
+		switch err.(type) {
+		case *docker.NoSuchContainer:
 			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusNotFound)
-		case err == docker.ErrNoSuchImage:
+		case *ErrNoSuchImage:
 			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusNotFound)
 		default:
 			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)