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Originally Posted by concretegurl  I don't mean this toward you in anyway-I just read what you wrote and thought of this and also what I did.-one of my pet peeves is seeing someone kissing and petting their dog while driving or a dog jumping all over their person while they're driving! Also seeing people with trucks having their dogs on a leash in the truck bed thankfully I've yet to see a dog free in the back of a truck-I'd call the police with their plate number... I love seeing people with crates secured in the bed of their truck and their dogs safe in the crate-my dogs all wear a harness when we go anywhere out of the house and I bought these attachments they clip on the harness and then clip into the seat belt buckle so one end of it is a hook that snaps the harness metal loop and the other is an IN plug just like on the seat belt and clicks into the seat belt handle attached to the seat. I like these best personally because I know in an accident my dogs will be secured and not throw into anything-I used to just have mine sit in the box style car carrier until a friend suggested these and pointed out how they keep dogs secure even in an accident...pretty soon I'll need a mini van (or if I get my way the sig. other will buy the 7 seater Landrover I want) so I have enough seat belt attachments in my car! |
I see dogs loose ALL the time in the back of pickup trucks here. It always makes me feel so bad for the dogs even though they usually seem to be enjoying it. Still, it is dangerous. The other day, I saw a lab up on top of the tool box just behind the truck cab -- if they had stopped quick, that dog would have been in my windshield! I had to pass them just so I didn't have to look.
Even worse, I see human kids in the back of pickups without any sort of seat or restraint. I actually DID call the police about that a few years back. Guess what -- it is not against the law! I said, well I guess it isn't against the law for dogs either then. No -- not against the law. Dog, adults, kids, they can all ride in the back of a pickup with no seat, carrier, or restraint! Unfortunately, there is a lack of common sense so many do it all the time -- probably moreso down here in the south.