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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  Sorry, but you are allowing your puppy to run the show, so you will continue to have to deal with accidents and injuries. I insist all my new owners leave here with their pups in a carrier or a car seat. I have no control over what they do the next day on. I had an owner buy 2 babies....she really DID NOT want to put those babies in a carrier, but I told her she could not leave here without doing that. She did it, but then, like you, they begged her to let them ride in her lap and she just could not stand the pitiful look in their eyes.....so they started riding around in her lap, looking out the window..... About 8 months later, she had a small wreck....her doors crumpled and her window broke, and both those babies jumped out the window, scared and confused, and ran right into the intersection and BOTH babies were hit and killed, right in front of her eyes. She learned a very tough lesson....and she has never gotten over it....after a couple of years, she tried again to get two little babies, but she had to bring them back....she just couldnt get over what she saw in her mind's eye, everytime she closed her eyes or she got quiet.....hopefully, someone will read this and learn from this ladys lesson and restrain her dog in a carrier or a car seat...dont let the baby make the decisions about how YOU are going to behave. |
Umm, I actually didn't let her decide. I actually decided that having her on my lap was safer than having her strangle herself. As I said in my post, I DID try and restrain her in the car seat, actually MULTIPLE car seats and I decided that the safest way to handle her was to hold onto her in my lap.
I understand what you are saying, but I don't think that my situation is anywhere near what you posted.
Beanie would have really hurt herself trying to get OUT of the car seat and various restraints that I tried. Other than duct taping her to the passenger seat, I really didn't see any solution to keeping her safe other than hanging on to her, or not taking her in the car.
I guess that I am realizing that there are always risks with these smaller dogs no matter what we do to try and do to keep them safe.
And your post, no matter how well meaning made me realize that even more. Thank you for that.